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Black Sea
500px provided description: Black Sea. This photograph is used as a geographic witness to the place, not as evidence of the historical date shown in the chapter.
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- 500px provided description: Black Sea
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- Open-licence photograph
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BEFORE MODERN SPORT
Somo
How work, access and surfing shaped Somo.
Scroll to follow the shoreline through time
Santander is the capital of the autonomous community of Cantabria, Spain.
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1068
Work at the water’s edge
Although it is mentioned for the first time in 1068, in a draft document made by King Sancho II, in the 9th century Alfonso II the Chaste founded the Abadía de los Cuerpos Santos ("Abbey of the Holy Bodies") in the existing chapel on the hill of Somorrostro, housing as holy relics the heads of Saint Emeterius and Saint Celedonius and the graves of other unknown martyrs, giving the abbey its name.
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2009
The shore becomes reachable
The maximum temperature reached in Santander Airport was 37.8 °C (100 °F) on 27 June 2009, and the minimum temperature −5.4 °C (22 °F) on 21 January 1957.
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Ermita de San Ibon, Somo (Ribamontán al Mar) - panoramio
Ermita de San Ibon, Somo (Ribamontán al Mar). This photograph is used as a geographic witness to the place, not as evidence of the historical date shown in the chapter.
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- Ermita de San Ibon, Somo (Ribamontán al Mar)
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- original
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- Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 3.0
ORGANISED SPORT
Surfing reads the same coast differently
Somo is part of PeakWave's surfing catalogue.
The local record used here does not support a single founding date for the sport, so the exhibition treats its sporting identity as an accumulation of use, access and organisation.
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THE LIVING MAP
The mapped place
Somo is recorded at 43.440° N, 3.748° W. A surf map fixes a name to one stretch of moving water, but the place changes with tide, swell direction, wind and the shape of the seabed.
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Ledger AOD.EU.SOMO.V00
Black Sea
500px provided description: Black Sea. This photograph is used as a geographic witness to the place, not as evidence of the historical date shown in the chapter.
- Visual description
- 500px provided description: Black Sea
- Nature
- original
- Medium
- Open-licence photograph
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- Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 3.0
TODAY
Somo now
Today, its remaining old town, beach and other attractions are popular with tourists and other visitors and its economy is mainly service based.
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THE LEDGER
Sources and credits
This exhibition is built from local, institutional and sporting records. The source ledger keeps the claims visible and leaves space for correction as further local evidence emerges.
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Artefacts in order of appearance
Black Sea
AOD.EU.SOMO.V00 · original · Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 3.0
Ermita de San Ibon, Somo (Ribamontán al Mar) - panoramio
AOD.EU.SOMO.V01 · original · Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 3.0
Editorial record
Full European Beta edition. Place evidence is adapted from the linked Santander, Spain overview under CC BY-SA 4.0 and remains subject to named historical and local review. Cartography is generated from the PeakWave location catalogue.