The Cantabrian Photo Tour, it’s our more complete Spain Photo Tour. Costa Cantábrica has grown to become one of the favorite locations for landscape and seascape photography for landscape photographers. The Northern Spain area and the coast is one of the most amazing places in Spain and even Europe. It’s beautiful beaches, stunning cliffs, and rocky formations, as well as the impressive mountains of Picos de Europa, not too far from the sea, make this area a treasure to any landscape photographer lover.
This photography workshop will take us through the provinces of Basque Country, Cantabria, Galicia and Asturias. We will be focusing on many of the beautiful locations of this impressive coast, visiting several locations, like the impressive island of Gaztelugatxe, Barrika, Arnia or El Silencio, or the amazing cliffs and coastline in Playa de las Catedrales.
At the same time, we will be visiting and capturing some really picturesque villages and small town during our trip, as, Cudillero, San Vicente de la Barquera, Llanes, Lastres, Ribadesella and Santiago de Compostela. We will also visit the famous city of Bilbao, where we will have a sunrise session by its most iconic building, the Guggenheim Museum.
Apart from these villages and the seascapes, we will be also visiting incredible mountain sceneries and forests. Between these visits, we can remark places like the forests around Vega de Pas or Picos de Europa National Park.
We will also have at least one post processing session during our trip, in which we will learn tips and techniques to process some of the images we had taken on our photo tour. All these features make this one a really complete photo tour, which will bring you hundreds of photo opportunities and incredible experiences and moments.
We will meet at the Bilbao airport, where our Northern Spain photography tour will begin. During the first two days we will spend in this area, we will visit the beautiful city of Bilbao. There, we will photograph the incredible Guggenheim Museum.
In addition to the capital, we will visit the incredible nature around Barrika Beach, with its incredible flysch and rock formations. We will also visit San Juan de Gaztelugatxe, a stunning island with a small church on it, world-famous for having appeared in the Game of Thrones series.
To round out these days, we will visit the beautiful Gorbeia Forest, where we can photograph its beech trees and some waterfalls.
After breakfast, we will head to the Navarra region, where the Bárdenas Reales are located. This is a rocky wasteland that offers us multiple compositions of these landscapes that look lunar. We will spend the full day here exploring the are until sunset. After that, we will arrive at our hotel for dinner and rest for the next day.
It is time to drive to the region of Cantabria, where we will stay this night. We will be focusing on seascapes, photographing some of the most beautiful beaches, cliffs and rock formations of this incredible coast.
We will visit and photograph some of the villages in the region, such as Comillas, Suances, or San Vicente de la Barquera. For sunset, we will go to Los Urros where you will enjoy incredible rock formations. After that we will sleep in the are to be ready for next day.
This morning we will enjoy sunrise at Arnia beach, close to our yesterday spot but with a completely different rock formations and light. After that, we will come back to the hotel for breakfast and check out.
During the daytime, we’ll be able to visit these famous villages in the region and others like Llanes, Ribadesella, and Lastres. These villages will bring us a photography opportunity, but also enjoy the local life and food, including the delicious seafood in the area.
For sunset, already in Asturias, we will visit the Infierno cliffs. After this complete day, we will have time for a well-deserved dinner and rest at our hotel close to the area.
After all the seascapes, a change of pace and scenery will take us up into the mountain range. Here we will find abandoned villages, waterfalls, and misty mountain views. The lush green forests and flowing streams at old mills will also be worth a morning bush walk.
Today, we will be visiting the spectacular mountain of Picos de Europa National Park for the whole day. Just for sunset, we will come back to the coast to photograph the sunset at Cuevas del Mar.
Today we will drive to Galicia, but before, for sunrise, we will photograph one of the most iconic spots of the tour: Castro de las gaviotas. When we finish, we will come back to our hotel to have breakfast and check out.
During the day, we will visit the hidden waterfalls of Galicia. For sunset, we will enjoy the last lights of the day at Loiba beach.
Today, you will enjoy one of the most impressive beaches in the world: Las Catedrales. An impressive beach with large cliffs that offers us hundreds of compositions. There, we will spend the morning before heading to Santiago de Compostela, where we will visit the cathedral and the surrounding area.
It will be a perfect moment also to enjoy the gastronomy of the region before coming to our sunset spot at Punta Nariga, a beautiful lighthouse on the western coast of Galicia.
It’s time to go down to the coast again, to photograph the outstanding coast of Asturias, full of wild, stunning beaches and impressive cliffs. We will capture places as ‘El Castro de las Gaviotas’ or Gueirua Beach and El Silencio or Portizuelo Beaches. Some of the most incredible locations for landscape and seascape photography in the whole country and probably Europe.
Luarca and Cudillero have been important fishing ports throughout history and still have fresh seafood and delicious restaurants. Lots of large jagged rock formations and many variations in compositions will be on offer for other key locations like Playa Portizuelo, Playa de Toro, and many other hidden gems.
Today, we’ll enjoy sunrise at Campiechos beach. After our session and breakfast, we will have time to visit some cousy villages on the coast.
After sunset at Vallina beach, we will drive back to Bilbao, where this Spain Photo Tour will come to the end.
Today will end our Northern Spain Photo Tour, you can go directly to the airport from our near hotel.
Dani Fernandez
Born in Barcelona but with northern blood, he began to become interested in photography in 2019 as a result of his admiration for nature. It would end up becoming his great passion, which would lead him to discover the most beautiful places on the planet.
Mountain areas are his specialty, with the Pyrenees and the Alps being his two favorite places. There, he combines his passion for climbing and mountaineering with photography. He was a participant in our first tours, and now he is guiding groups as a specialist after a few trips.
Departure & Return Location
Bilbao, Spain
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Ines Zabaleta
The trip was very well organized, ran very smoothly, communication with both Eduardo Fuster and Jabi Sanz was immpecable, they are both very reliable. All our questions were answered without any delay. Jabi Sanz, our photographer leader, created a whatsapp group 3 months before the trip started allowing our interaction way before the trip startted Jabi is an amazing photographer with very broad experience, extremely enthusiastic, fun and reliable, who provided guidance and photography discussions. The choice of places based on weather conditions optimized the chances for the best photographies. Thanks a lot to both of you, it was a great trip, I learn a lot and had lots of fun. I certainly recommend PhotoWorldTours, specially Jabi Sanz, and I would be happy to join another of your trips in the future. Thanks a lot for organizing such a great trip!!
Sandeep Mathur
I am a Landscape and Cityscape photographer from New Delhi, India. I had lived the North-Spain dream for quite some time now. When PhotoWorldTours announced their North-Spain tour and especially with Javier Sanz as the tour leader, I signed up immediately. Since I had been following Jabi for a few years now, I knew more or less what to expect and the reality did not disappoint. The trip was action packed from the very start scouting locations, shooting sunsets late into the night and then up almost every early morning to shoot the sunrise, post-processing sessions and great choices for restaurants and wine after a hard photography session ! If you are considering a photography trip to Spain, then PhotoWorldTours are the obvious choice !
