What's with all the empty mansions in Laredo?
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- Опубликовано: 21 июн 2024
- Join me on a walk around the seaside town of Laredo in the Cantabria region of Northern Spain. A wonderful place on the coast in green Spain and surprisingly, full of empty mansions
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I film my videos on #lumix and GoPro cameras and lenses and sometimes on an iPhone.
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Beautiful coast and country!! Thank You for sharing. Hope to visit Laredo one day.
Watching from USA. I love your format on Spanish culture! Thank you 🇪🇸
Fabulous little town! So much to do, from boat and bus trips at very reasonable!e prices to !
The money for the "Indianos" houses in the north of Galicia ( A Mariña" ) traditionally came from Spanish people returning from Cuba .
Nice Stu! Thank you again for sharing your adventures with us. Laredo looks beautiful.
Been to three Laredos, Spain,Laredo Tx,and Nuevo Laredo México...
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Thank you Stuart please mention from time to time ,as you already do, the time of the day & temperature & maybe a little map of Spain with the city. Love to come along with you in this trips 😍😎
Love the video Stu. Yes, I know Laredo well, it's not far from Noja.
There is an old part of the town, which is worth seeing. It also has a small fisher port.
Shame I was not in the area. You are of course right in saying, that the population quadruples in the peak season.
Apart from Spanish tourists, there are French, German, Dutch and the British, coming over with the ferry to Santander or Bilbao.
There are many campers as well.
Have a good one!
How timely, we just met a couple from Laredo. Thanks Stu, time to put it on our list.
What an interesting town! I’d never heard of Laredo Spain, but now I’m intrigued! Thanks Stu!!
Looks like a nice place to visit and looked pretty empty on your visit but i can imagine in the peak season it will very busy
Great video Stuart. Thanks for sharing it with us. This is one of those towns that I've driven by a few times but never stopped.It looks really nice and the beach is spectacular. I'll have to put it on my last of places to visit. Looking forward to your next out and about broadcast. 😀👍
Thanks, Stu! Some of those older places look to be in pretty good shape from the outside. But, yeah, these days, very few would want to purchase, refurbish, buy furniture (most of which will never be used), property taxes, electricity, etc., etc. It does look like a nice small town - most likely cooler in July/August for this Canadian compared to how it is here in Valencia (la Ciudad).
We love this area with all the old posh houses. Couple that with the beautiful coast line and wonderful inland areas and what more do you want. Just a shame its cold in the winter but that's why it's so green.
Los indianos tambien estan en Cataluña. Toda la costa y un barrio de Barcelona esta lleno de palacios, chalets, casitas, en catalan , torres. Regresaron de Cuba a partir de 1898 con la independecia con la ayuda Norteamericana. Dejaron numerosos cultivos y fábricas de manufacturar, azúcar, tabaco etc. Tambien habian ganado, anteriomente, mucho dinero con el comercio de esclavos. 😊
Hi Stu, Great tour…. Thanks
Cheers Stuart, my wife and I walked that 6-8km beach Friday the 14th June! Wonderful scenery, we walked from the piers and the Marino. On Saturday's they run equestrian events near the upper end of the town on the beach and other riders take a route down the beach and around the spit at the end of the main beach. Next day we were across from Laredo at Santoña, beautiful area and towards Ajo and Nijo, popular and more congested.
The houses like that in Siero, the ones that the grounds are kept, most are owned by the ayuntamiento. some of these are for sale but there are a lot of restriction on what you can do. Other ones are owned by family's and there's a feud on who get's what. Some they want to build apartments but they can't destroy the building for historical reason so they wait until it falls down, then they can build
Just a lovely city! Thanks for taking us on a walk about Stu!
Thanks Stuart
Enjoy your videos. Very informative regarding different cities as well as the current events. Muy apreciado.
Beautiful little coastal town
It looks beautiful, Stuart. Thank you 😊
Boy Laredo is tempting. But even the summer has too much rain for me. Probably better off with the hot and humid weather in Valencian Community.
Agreed, I’d opt for the same as in your comment.
Don’t try UK !!!!! It rained half June and was 10-12c.
The Candy floss looking sky concerns me more...🤔
You see the same old mansions in the North of Portugal in seaside towns like Caminha, where Portuguese who made money in the colonies returned and built their mansions
A hug from Sicily!i love so much your interesting videos on my beloved Spain.May I ask you what is your favourite city?once i would have said Granada but...after visiting Bilbao:impressive mix of modern and ancient(old actually).I prefer Bilbao.What is your opinion on Bilbao?and your favourite city?
Those houses in a difficult location would be converted into apartments, maybe that’s the future, but at the moment a low population of 11,000
Such romantic houses & long gone era 💕🕺💃🏙
Laredo is nice, but Castro Urdiales is the town to see and visit in this part of the north. Absolute marvel!
Love these little tour videos of the towns in Spain that people wouldn’t perhaps be aware of, particularly, if like me, they’re from overseas. Laredo looks lovely.
Loredo is also in Cantabria but he is in Laredo.
@@tintan2001my mistake, now corrected. Thanks for pointing it out.
I thoroughly enjoyed my visit to Laredo in the summer of 2022 - a good family holiday destination.Take care not to park your car overnight in the mercadillo area the night before - ask me how I know (actually I parked it there many days before, caught COVID & when I was well enough to look for my car it was then in the municipal pound).
Good content!
Great video but the big question remains. Did you ever manage to get any lunch?
Tambien hay una ciudad llamada Laredo en el sur de Usa, Texas. Fundada por colonos españoles en el s.XVIII .😂
Lo que era la provincia de Nuevo Santander y luego parte del estado Tamaulipas y después del de Texas.
Es lo que ha explicado él en el vídeo.
Looks a nice place.
Self catering with all variety of fresh local produce in the small shops. Fish in abundance, you can buy it fresh or frozen using scoop by size(prawns) or mix(paella). Anchovies galore! The streets are scrubbed clean each morning. Visited Bilbao and Santander by bus. Flower festival if you time it right. As I said - Fabulous ! And you don't even need a car , just foot passenger on the ferry from the UK and a short bus trip. Laredo is a hub, you can get a coach to to Barcelona or Madrid or into France or to the local world famous zoo or into the mountains. *****
Hi Stu, could you do a walkthrough video of Castro Urdiales?
Those beautiful houses could become apartments, surely?
Thanks for this walk. Funny, i associate palm trees with a quite warm climate and yet i would think laredo being a northern city would be too cold in winter for palm trees. Either i really don’t know palm trees or laredo is not that cold in winter.
The palm trees are not native to Laredo or to northern Spain, nor are they even native to southern Spain. They were planted artificially, some in the 19th century, as a reminder or reference to America and as a status symbol. In modern times (20th and 21st century), they were planted as a fashion following and influenced by American (USA) TV series and movies set on the beach. Summary: palm trees are not native to Spain, they are a foreign tree.
@@Ilar-en7lg thank you for the interesting note. I was only curious about palm trees fairing well through cold seasons. Honestly, i’m not a fan of those very tall palm trees.
A little bit disappointed with Laredo. I was expecting an old city center like many city centers in Spain, with old streets, squares etc. Specially considering that Laredo was one of the main ports of old Castille. Instead, the town looks built completely in the years of "desarrollismo", back in the 60s/70s, where architectural "crimes" were committed
I’m sure Laredo is an upmarket resort for Spanish (n French who can drive there from France ) . It looks expensive n well cared for . Stu don’t you know that Rich businessmen always have big expensive properties in these upmarket resorts and only use them in summer or long weekends ?. They usually live in big cities during the rest of the year .
The birds chirping make it even better
This city (like many others in Spain) is just a normal coastal city of Spain, it's not for the rich. I don't know what you are talking about.
Those two empty houses are actually beautiful even if impractical and likely energy hogs.
I'm thinking of retiring to Spain. Do you think it's a good city to retire to? Thankyou.
My love is from Valladolid and those castellanos prefer Santander (Cantabria nowadays). So we go to Torrelavega often. It's closer, and also Santander is an extension of Castille in the mood and way of speaking and being. My bloody family and my in-law-Brit family all go to Oliva in Valencia. I rather prefer Asturias, and Valencia over Cantabria, but don't tell her.
The palm trees are not native to Laredo or to northern Spain, nor are they even native to southern Spain. They were planted artificially, some in the 19th century, as a reminder or reference to America and as a status symbol. In modern times (20th and 21st century), they were planted as a fashion following and influenced by American (USA) TV series and movies set on the beach. Summary: palm trees are not native to Spain, they are a foreign tree.
Initially, i thought that building on the hill was part of a castle and you were talking about the building in front of it. But your second showing, was indeed an ugly architectural mistake. Maybe erected in the 60’-70’s when modernism was often attempted by just any architect. But i would guess the views from inside might be it’s best asset.
No climate change it would seem from all the green trees etc etc... Similar in cuenca.... Tony cuenca
This is why I love Spain so much unspoilt by immigration etc unlike my own country England which is now a shithole.... Tony cuenca