Comillas, Tuesday

 

Tuesday afternoon I arrived in Comillas. It’s another beautiful little town next to the beach. I really enjoyed the walk on Tuesday, there was a lot of beach-side walking. Not like all the road-walking to Santillanas.

Comillas has a huge Pontifical College-a seminary for the traof priests. And since the beach is so gorgeous there, a friend of the king ( not sure what era) built a huge beach house- think Downton Abbey- for when the king felt like coming to Cantabrica to visit. Actually in Santander there is a summer palace too. But this one was made to host the king as a friend.  

Here’s a picture of the town from a hill up above. I got to attend mass in the church you can see down the hill, San Cristobal.

View walking down the hill. The spire on the right is where I went to mass. Up on the hill in the center is the Pontifical Seminary.

One more picture from yesterday. I have now seen this a couple places, a gigantic clam shell used as a holy water font. This one was the biggest yet, close to two feet across.