last edited Dec 11, 2019
Getting to Northwest Spain
Location Map of Northwest Spain
Northwest Spain
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By Land
By Road
By Train
By Air
There are five commercial airports in this part of Spain: one in Asturias (Asturias Airport), one in Cantabria (Santander), and three in Galicia (A Coruña, Santiago de Compostela, Vigo). All, except Santiago with its 2 million passengers per year, handle around a million passengers annually, with a network primarily domestic and a few more or less regular or low-cost flights to destinations such as Paris, Belgium, or Switzerland. Note that Porto in Portugal, as well as airports in the Basque Country, are not far away.
From France
- Mulhouse/Basel: Santiago de Compostela (easyJet)
- Paris: Asturias (Vueling), A Coruña (Iberia, seasonal), Santander (Air Nostrum, seasonal), Santiago de Compostela (Vueling)
From Belgium
- Brussels: Santiago de Compostela (Vueling, seasonal)
- Charleroi: Santander (Ryanair)
From Switzerland
- Basel/Mulhouse: Santiago de Compostela (easyJet)
- Geneva: Asturias (easyJet, seasonal), Santiago de Compostela (easyJet)
- Zurich: Santiago de Compostela (Swiss and Vueling, seasonal)
By Sea
Ferries
There are three ferry routes in the region, including Santander–Plymouth or Portsmouth (England), operated by Brittany Ferries. The Gijón–Saint-Nazaire route (with LD Lines), suspended in early 2015, may resume.
Cargo
A Coruña and Santander are two ports where it is possible to arrive by cargo ship, as is Bilbao in the neighboring Basque Country.