This weathervane of a galleon ship is atop a stone column in the middle of a roundabout in Santander, Spain. It is located on the beach in the El Sardinero neighborhood, near our hotel a few weeks ago. Santander is a coastal city on the Catabrian Sea in northern Spain.
It took us several trips around the roundabout to get these photos! Sorry, but they aren't very good. It was a very interesting place to install a weathervane. Santander has always had a very busy port, and perhaps galleons set off from this city for the New World? We saw a ferry to the United Kingdom, and many fishing boats in the port. To U.S. citizens, this city is perhaps most famous for Banco Santander, which was founded here and now has many branches in the United States.
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To cite/link to this blog post: Heather Wilkinson Rojo, "A weathervane in Santander, Spain", Nutfield Genealogy, posted 22 October 2026, ( https://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2025/10/a-weathervane-in-santander-spain.html: accessed [access date]).
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