Santander offers different options and specially during the summer. If you are coming here please check the programs of these places maybe you can find a good surprise and you can buy tickets for a concert, a film, a play...
Just in the middle of the city, maybe you like or maybe not this huge building, but all the year it offers an interesting program, so it´s worthy to read it and even go there. On line you can read the new program.
UIMP offers a complete program with university courses in the summer but also it organizes a lot of cultural activities during the summer. That´s a complete offer that you can read in their web site inside ACTIVIDADES CULTURALES. Some of them are even free but you need to check the city place where they take place because it changes and some are outside Santander.
In Tantín Str. near the city center there is the Old Caja Cantabria hall where concerts and plays take place. The program is all the year round and you can check it so as to see if there is something interesting. The old Caja de Cantabria, or the new Liberbank, has his main place here in the Tantin Str. but it has other places inside and outside Santander.
You should visit their web page in Spanish and English so as to know the exhibitions and concerts that there will be in the city. It has some buildings in the city center. The one in Pedrueca str. has a concert hall and the CENTRO BOTÍN belongs to them.
In the 6 Bonifaz Str. there is an old cinema that now has been transformed into a cinema for old films lovers. If you are not sure that your Spanish level is good enough don´t worry. Here the films are in their language and with Spanish subtitles. The information is in the Palacio de Festivales de Santander web page but it´s in a different building.
Near Esperanza church and market there is a small cinema ( 4 Cisneros str.) where you can enjoy good films and not very commercial. You can check their program in their web page.
Another old cinema in the city centre, just in front of the town hall, is still open. Here you can´t find the last films. The price is also cheaper. All types of films, you can review the last success. Maybe it´s not open during the whole year.
A bit far away from the city centre you can watch the brand new films in a modern comercial centre ( even in 3D). In their web page you need to choose SANTANDER in the ZONA options so as to see the program. You need to take the number 12 city bus in front of the town hall or the number 19 next to the bus station ( ask for the CORTE INGLÉS so as to know where to stop)
