Elegant and large suites with matrimonial bed, lobby, cutting-edge technology, steam sauna and water massage showers, panoramic lounge-car and pub-car with live music played every night, restaurant aboard offering exquisite food and the most selected essences of pleasure are served this year on this tourist train, one of the top five of the world and the first one created in Spain, it was recently transformed into an spectacular five-star hotel-train.

Born in the 1980s after hard and delicate restoration works, the Transcantabrico shares the genetic code with the Oriente Express or Blue Train. It was specifically in July of 1983 when this majestic Feve train seized the narrow gauge and set out to conquest the Cantabria region taking over, from Euskadi to Galicia and from Leon to Castile, the most beautiful and magic landscapes of La Coruña, Lugo, Asturias, Cantabria, Biscay, Guipuzcoa, Burgos, Palencia and Leon. Now the legendary railroad has been divided into two fabulous and extraordinary tourist trains: Transcantabrico Clasico (Classic) and Transcantabrico Gran Lujo (Grand Luxury). Being an authentic paradise of luxury, the Transcantábrico Gran Lujo is made up of seven sleeping compartments, four lounge cars, and one kitchen car. A dozen units with common areas for a striking panoramic lounge complemented with TV sets, video library, a dining hall and a tea lounge offering the best typical food of each of the areas included in the route from breakfast to dinner, from appetizers to after-dinner. Delicacies to share in the threshold of the most distinguished glamour shaping and bringing to life each of the seven sleeping cars of the train which were designed with the most selected essence of pleasure. It has 14 elegant Suites Privilege with a 150x200 matrimonial bed, walk-in closet and porter, comfortable living room with two TV sets, video player, video game console, sound system, computer with free Internet connection, wireless telephone, double air conditioning, minibar and, also, a complete bathroom with water massage shower and steam sauna. An authentic and luxury carrier full of temptations to set out on a train cruise, a pure enticement on rails: 8-day and 7-night trips (San Sebastian-Santiago de Compostela-San Sebastian), with a program that can’t be overlooked by anyone combining the exuberant views of the north of Spain, gastronomy, unique nature, the enchantment of its unequalled art, intense and thousand-year-old history and hundreds of fascinating legends. This is endorsed by the route book of the Transcantábrico Gran Lujo’s San Sebastian-Santiago de Compostela-San Sebastian itinerary, a perfect manual to seduce one’s senses. From the irresistible Basque, Cantabrian, Asturias and Galician cuisine, to the sea enchantment of Llanes, Luarca or Ribadeo; passing through the infinite serenity of Santander… From the steel and glass modernity of the Guggenheim to the other thousand-year-old modernity that gave origin to almost everything in Altamira… From a thousand legends of the cobble-stoned Santillana to the magical mysticism of Liebana… From the caprices carved by nature in Covadonga or in the beach of Catedrales to the explosive vitality of radiant Gijon or the seducing and pre-Romanesque city of Oviedo… From the permanent hug to the indomitable Cantabrian green and the imposing majesty of Picos de Europa to the powerful gusts of the fierce Atlantic in Ferrol… From the fascinating attraction of the noble and beautiful San Sebastian to the burst of spirituality in Obradoiro, inevitably captured by Santiago in Compostela. Art and nature. Landscape and gastronomy. Stories and legends. Maximum temptation and essence of pleasure for all the senses. And the train, El Transcantábrico, as a loyal guardian of that form of travelling in which the route was as important as the very destination. Until November, Transcantábrico Gran Lujo will offer maximum temptation running on rails across Basque, Cantabrian, Asturias and Galician lands.