Mountaineers Studies Center

CCreated in Santander in the year 1934 and slowly approaching the century old, the Mountaineers Studies Center has been meeting essential demands of culture in the Cantabrian region, offering at the same time a stable and extensive range of first-rate cultural projects and infrastructures.

It was born in utopian times of the small homeland of Marcelino Menéndez Pelayo and in his own superb library, embebido en el espíritu del polígrafo y en ambientes de estudio con gran trascendencia en el panorama histórico internacional, as those linked with archeology,,es,prehistoric rock art and the,,es,Cave of Altamira,,es,grotto of which the C.E.M,,ca,I take the,,es,name for,,es,your new magazine,,es,or with the old Cantabria and the,,es,that allowed Emperor Caesar Augustus to project Rome towards his great empire,,es,and other diverse heritage compilations,,es,valued and conservation projects of the culture of Cantabria have their origin,,es,to the Center for Mountain Studies and their,,es,members,,es,At present it continues to maintain a broad participation in the,,es, el arte rupestre prehistórico y la Cueva de Altamira, gruta de la que el C.E.M. took the name for his new magazine “Altamira” that was taking over from the Santander Magazine to give it an open projection to the world, o con la antigua Cantabria y las Guerras Cántabras que permitieron al emperador César Augusto proyectar Roma hacia su gran imperio, por citar a vuelapluma dos temas de máximo interés en aquella primera mitad de siglo.

Its the Centro de Estudios Montañeses is well known for its extensive publishing projection, that, maintaining the current rate, it will be able to reach two hundred monographs when it shortly reaches its first centenary of existence, to which should be added another hundred volumes of periodicals published under his seal, although he has to his credit many other meritorious achievements less remembered by the general public: El Archivo Histórico de Cantabria, los museos Etnográfico, maritime and of Prehistoria y otras diversas recopilaciones patrimoniales, puestas en valor y proyectos de conservación de la cultura de Cantabria tienen en su origen, as creators and main players, al Centro de Estudios Montañeses y a sus miembros.

It continues to maintain a wide participation in the culture of Cantabria and vast publishing trajectory that spreads profusely around the world, effectively contributing to making the most outstanding aspects of the culture of Cantabria universally known.

Its contributions as an advisory body on cultural heritage and the sharing of multidisciplinary perspectives on culture between generations, make this veteran entity continuous and valuable reference.