Bookstores in Santander
If you judge a town by its bookshops, Santander, Cantabria gives you 23 to judge by. That's 23 bookshops mapped around Santander, each with its own shelves and specialties. The used sections are where the real bargains hide. Staff picks shelves are the fastest way to read a shop's personality.
This guide covers every bookstore we could verify in and around Santander (within about 25 km), built from OpenStreetMap's community-maintained data. Names you'll run into include Librería Némesis and Librería Cristiana Byblos, plus La Libre. If a bookshop's missing from Santander's list, it probably just hasn't been mapped yet.
The Santander bookstore lineup
23 in Santander, plus 13 more around Santander below:
Librería Némesis
Bookstore0.2 km from Santander
Librería Némesis — Bookstore, found on 18 Calle del Cardenal Cisneros in Santander. Also worth knowing about Librería Némesis: the map lists its hours as Mo-Fr 10:00-13:30, 17:00-20:00, Sa 10:00-13:30; a phone number is listed — worth a call before a special trip; it has a website with more detail.
18 Calle del Cardenal Cisneros, Santander, 39001
Hours: Mo-Fr 10:00-13:30, 17:00-20:00, Sa 10:00-13:30
Phone: +34942372608
Librería Cristiana Byblos
Bookstore0.2 km from Santander
Librería Cristiana Byblos — Bookstore, found on 21 Calle de Francisco de Quevedo in Santander. Also worth knowing about Librería Cristiana Byblos: the map lists its hours as Sa 10:00-13:30; a phone number is listed — worth a call before a special trip.
21 Calle de Francisco de Quevedo, Santander, 39001
Hours: Sa 10:00-13:30
Phone: +34 942051988
La Libre
Bookstore0.2 km from Santander
La Libre is Bookstore on 1 Rampa de Sotileza, Santander. La Libre also notes on the map: the map lists its hours as Tu-Fr 11:00-14:00,17:00-20:00; Mo 17:00-20:00; Sa 11:00-14:00; a phone number is listed — worth a call before a special trip; it has a website with more detail.
1 Rampa de Sotileza, Santander, 39008
Hours: Tu-Fr 11:00-14:00,17:00-20:00; Mo 17:00-20:00; Sa 11:00-14:00
Phone: +34 942035027
Carmen Alonso Libros
Bookstore0.3 km from Santander
Carmen Alonso Libros is Bookstore on 17 Calle del Cardenal Cisneros, Santander. Carmen Alonso Libros also notes on the map: the map lists its hours as Mo-Sa 11:00-14:00; Mo-Fr 17:30-20:30; a phone number is listed — worth a call before a special trip; it has a website with more detail.
17 Calle del Cardenal Cisneros, Santander, 39001
Hours: Mo-Sa 11:00-14:00; Mo-Fr 17:30-20:30
Phone: +34 605636503
Re-Read Santander
Bookstore0.3 km from SantanderRun by Franquicias Re-Read Librería Lowcost
Re-Read Santander is Bookstore run by Franquicias Re-Read Librería Lowcost on 11 Calle de Rualasal, Santander. Re-Read Santander also notes on the map: the map lists its hours as Mo-Fr 10:00-14:00,17:00-20:00; Sa 10:00-14:30; a phone number is listed — worth a call before a special trip; it has a website with more detail.
11 Calle de Rualasal, Santander, 39001
Hours: Mo-Fr 10:00-14:00,17:00-20:00; Sa 10:00-14:30
Phone: +34 620500231
Casa del Libro
Bookstore0.4 km from Santander
Casa del Libro — Bookstore, found on 5 Calle Burgos in Santander.
5 Calle Burgos, Santander, 39008
Kattigara
Bookstore0.4 km from Santander
Kattigara is Bookstore on 5 Calle de San Luis, Santander. Kattigara also notes on the map: the map lists its hours as Mo-Fr 16:30-20:00; Mo-Sa 10:00-13:30; a phone number is listed — worth a call before a special trip; it has a website with more detail.
5 Calle de San Luis, Santander, 39010
Hours: Mo-Fr 16:30-20:00; Mo-Sa 10:00-13:30
Phone: +34 942 07 42 86
Librería Papelería Santoveña
Bookstore0.5 km from Santander
Librería Papelería Santoveña is Bookstore on 51 Calle del Cardenal Cisneros, Santander. Librería Papelería Santoveña also notes on the map: the map lists its hours as Sa 10:00-14:00; Mo-Fr 09:30-14:00; a phone number is listed — worth a call before a special trip.
51 Calle del Cardenal Cisneros, Santander, 39007
Hours: Sa 10:00-14:00; Mo-Fr 09:30-14:00
Phone: +34 942235544
Librería Utopia
Bookstore0.5 km from Santander
Librería Utopia — Bookstore, found on 46 Calle Alta in Santander. Also worth knowing about Librería Utopia: the map lists its hours as Mo-Fr 10:00-14:00,16:30-20:00; Sa 10:00-14:00; a phone number is listed — worth a call before a special trip; it has a website with more detail.
46 Calle Alta, Santander, 39008
Hours: Mo-Fr 10:00-14:00,16:30-20:00; Sa 10:00-14:00
Phone: +34 942241157
Nexus-4
Bookstore0.6 km from Santander
Nexus-4 — Bookstore, found on 9 Calle de Madrid in Santander. Also worth knowing about Nexus-4: the map lists its hours as Mo-Fr 10:00-13:30,16:30-20:00; Sa 11:00-13:30,17:00-20:00; a phone number is listed — worth a call before a special trip; it has a website with more detail.
9 Calle de Madrid, Santander, 39009
Hours: Mo-Fr 10:00-13:30,16:30-20:00; Sa 11:00-13:30,17:00-20:00
Phone: +34 942211934
La Vorágine
Bookstore0.6 km from Santander
La Vorágine is Bookstore on 69 Calle Cardenal Cisneros, Santander. La Vorágine also notes on the map: the map lists its hours as Mo-Fr 10:00-13:30,17:00-20:30; Sa off; Su off; a phone number is listed — worth a call before a special trip; it has a website with more detail.
69 Calle Cardenal Cisneros, Santander, 39007
Hours: Mo-Fr 10:00-13:30,17:00-20:30; Sa off; Su off
Phone: +34 942375226
Librería Gil
Bookstore0.6 km from Santander
Librería Gil is Bookstore on 23 Calle de Hernán Cortés, Santander. Librería Gil also notes on the map: the map lists its hours as Mo-Fr 10:00-13:30,17:00-20:30; Sa 10:30-14:00,17:00-20:30; a phone number is listed — worth a call before a special trip; it has a website with more detail.
23 Calle de Hernán Cortés, Santander, 39003
Hours: Mo-Fr 10:00-13:30,17:00-20:30; Sa 10:30-14:00,17:00-20:30
Phone: +34 942214961
Librería Gil
Bookstore0.7 km from Santander
Librería Gil is Bookstore on 258 Paseo de Altamira, Santander. Librería Gil also notes on the map: the map lists its hours as Mo-Fr 10:00-13:30,16:30-20:00; Sa 10:00-14:00; a phone number is listed — worth a call before a special trip; it has a website with more detail.
258 Paseo de Altamira, Santander, 39006
Hours: Mo-Fr 10:00-13:30,16:30-20:00; Sa 10:00-14:00
Phone: +34 942341052
Roales
Bookstore0.8 km from Santander
Roales is Bookstore on 16 Calle del Sol, Santander. Roales also notes on the map: the map lists its hours as Mo-Fr 11:00-13:30,18:00-21:00; Sa 11:00-13:30,18:00-21:00; a phone number is listed — worth a call before a special trip.
16 Calle del Sol, Santander, 39003
Hours: Mo-Fr 11:00-13:30,18:00-21:00; Sa 11:00-13:30,18:00-21:00
Phone: +34 942364666
Librería del Puerto
Bookstore0.9 km from Santander
Librería del Puerto is Bookstore on 17B Calle de Ruiz Zorrilla, Santander. Librería del Puerto also notes on the map: the map lists its hours as Mo-Fr 10:00-13:30,16:30-20:00; Sa 10:00-14:00; a phone number is listed — worth a call before a special trip.
17B Calle de Ruiz Zorrilla, Santander, 39009
Hours: Mo-Fr 10:00-13:30,16:30-20:00; Sa 10:00-14:00
Phone: +34 942225163
Imdes
Bookstore1.1 km from Santander
Imdes — Bookstore, found on 47 Calle de Floranes in Santander. Also worth knowing about Imdes: the map lists its hours as Mo-Fr 16:30-20:30; Mo-Sa 09:00-14:00; a phone number is listed — worth a call before a special trip.
47 Calle de Floranes, Santander, 39010
Hours: Mo-Fr 16:30-20:30; Mo-Sa 09:00-14:00
Phone: +34 942373266
Librería Antuñano
Bookstore1.2 km from Santander
Librería Antuñano — Bookstore, found on 5 Calle de Alonso in Santander. Also worth knowing about Librería Antuñano: the map lists its hours as Mo-Fr 09:00-13:30,17:00-20:15; Sa 09:00-13:45; a phone number is listed — worth a call before a special trip; it has a website with more detail.
5 Calle de Alonso, Santander, 39010
Hours: Mo-Fr 09:00-13:30,17:00-20:15; Sa 09:00-13:45
Phone: +34 601 43 00 51
Librería Gil
Bookstore1.2 km from Santander
Librería Gil is Bookstore on 62 Calle de San Fernando, Santander. Librería Gil also notes on the map: the map lists its hours as Mo-Sa 10:30-14:00, 17:00-20:30; Su Off; a phone number is listed — worth a call before a special trip; it has a website with more detail.
62 Calle de San Fernando, Santander, 39010
Hours: Mo-Sa 10:30-14:00, 17:00-20:30; Su Off
Phone: +34 942241095
Librería Ediciones Tantin
Bookstore1.4 km from Santander
Librería Ediciones Tantin is Bookstore on 10 Avenida de José Hierro, Santander. Librería Ediciones Tantin also notes on the map: the map lists its hours as Mo-Fr 09:30-13:15,16:30-20:00; Sa 10:00-13:30; a phone number is listed — worth a call before a special trip; it has a website with more detail.
10 Avenida de José Hierro, Santander, 39007
Hours: Mo-Fr 09:30-13:15,16:30-20:00; Sa 10:00-13:30
Phone: +34 942231382
Tu Sonrisa
Bookstore1.5 km from Santander
Tu Sonrisa — Bookstore, found on 11-13 Calle Repuente in Santander. Also worth knowing about Tu Sonrisa: the map lists its hours as Mo-Fr 10:00-13:30,17:00-20:00; a phone number is listed — worth a call before a special trip.
11-13 Calle Repuente, Santander, 39012
Hours: Mo-Fr 10:00-13:30,17:00-20:00
Phone: +34 942322793
Librería Conejo
Bookstore3.1 km from Santander
Librería Conejo — Bookstore, found on 9 Bajo Avenida del Deporte in Santander. Also worth knowing about Librería Conejo: the map lists its hours as Mo-Fr 10:00-13:30,17:00-20:00; Sa 10:30-13:00; a phone number is listed — worth a call before a special trip.
9 Bajo Avenida del Deporte, Santander, 39011
Hours: Mo-Fr 10:00-13:30,17:00-20:00; Sa 10:30-13:00
Phone: +34 942321508
Casa del Libro
Bookstore4.5 km from Santander
Casa del Libro — Bookstore. Also worth knowing about Casa del Libro: a phone number is listed — worth a call before a special trip; it has a website with more detail.
Phone: +34 911 79 34 63
Librería El Crucero
Bookstore7.3 km from Santander
Librería El Crucero is Bookstore. Librería El Crucero also notes on the map: the map lists its hours as Mo-Th 10:00-14:00,16:30-20:00; Fr 10:00-14:00,16:30-19:30; Sa 10:30-13:30; Su off; a phone number is listed — worth a call before a special trip.
Hours: Mo-Th 10:00-14:00,16:30-20:00; Fr 10:00-14:00,16:30-19:30; Sa 10:30-13:30; Su off
Phone: +34 667653842
What the map tells us about bookstores in Santander
21 of the 23 list their opening hours on the map, which is genuinely useful — bookshops keep civilised hours, so the listed ones are usually reliable.
14 have websites listed. Worth a look for events — readings and signings get announced there first.
Most of the bookstores in Santander list a phone number. Useful for checking whether a specific title is in stock before you visit.
The Santander bookstore crawl
Plot these on a map and the day plans itself: Librería Némesis on 18 Calle del Cardenal Cisneros, Librería Cristiana Byblos on 21 Calle de Francisco de Quevedo, La Libre on 1 Rampa de Sotileza, Carmen Alonso Libros on 17 Calle del Cardenal Cisneros, Re-Read Santander on 11 Calle de Rualasal, Casa del Libro on 5 Calle Burgos, Kattigara on 5 Calle de San Luis, and Librería Papelería Santoveña on 51 Calle del Cardenal Cisneros. That's 23 stops on the Santander bookstore crawl. 15 more are listed below.
Bookstore tips for Santander
Browsing in Santander? A little strategy helps:
- Check the cookbook section at Librería Némesis. Cookbooks are the most browsed and least bought section, which means the used shelf is full of barely-touched gems.
- Gift buying? Ask for wrapping at Librería Cristiana Byblos. Many independents wrap beautifully and free. It beats a gift bag every time.
- The used section is underpriced everywhere. Books are heavy and slow to sell, so used shelves price to move. First editions hide here regularly.
- Bring a tote bag. Bookshops and tote bags are a natural pair. You'll need it — nobody leaves with the one book they came for.
Good to know
We searched about 25 km around Santander — that covers the town itself plus the surrounding communities you'd reasonably drive to. Listings come from OpenStreetMap, mapped by local volunteers, so a brand-new bookstore in Santander can take a while to appear. The 23 above are only as current as the community map. A bookstore that's shut, or a new one nobody's added yet, gets fixed with a single OpenStreetMap edit.
We don't list prices — they change constantly and vary by edition. What we list is the where: real shops, verified by real mappers, in alphabetical order with no favourites.
If you run one of the 23 listed here and something's wrong — a closure, a move, new hours — the fix is the same: update the shop on OpenStreetMap and the correction flows through to this page on the next daily refresh.
Worth the trip: more bookstores around Santander
13 more within about 25 km of Santander, nearest first:
Librería Meruelo
Bookstore19.1 km from Santander
Librería Meruelo — Bookstore.
El almacén de los libros olvidados
Bookstore19.7 km from Santander
El almacén de los libros olvidados is Bookstore on Barrio El Hoyo, Isla. El almacén de los libros olvidados also notes on the map: the map lists its hours as Jul-Aug Mo-Su 11:30-14:00, 17:30-21:00; a phone number is listed — worth a call before a special trip; it has a website with more detail.
Barrio El Hoyo, Isla
Hours: Jul-Aug Mo-Su 11:30-14:00, 17:30-21:00
Phone: +34 665 732 541
Josmar
Bookstore22.6 km from Santander
Josmar is Bookstore.
Librería José María Pereda
Bookstore22.6 km from Santander
Librería José María Pereda — Bookstore.
Campillo
Bookstore22.9 km from Santander
Campillo is Bookstore.
M. Mantecón
Bookstore23.0 km from Santander
M. Mantecón — Bookstore.
Estvdio
Bookstore23.0 km from Santander
Estvdio is Bookstore.
Librería Virgen Grande
Bookstore23.2 km from Santander
Librería Virgen Grande is Bookstore.
Libros
Bookstore23.3 km from Santander
Libros — Bookstore.
Librería Alexandría
Bookstore23.4 km from Santander
Librería Alexandría is Bookstore.
Librería Cervantes
Bookstore23.5 km from Santander
Librería Cervantes is Bookstore.
Vértice
Bookstore23.7 km from Santander
Vértice — Bookstore, found on 1B Calle de Andalucía in Torrelavega. Also worth knowing about Vértice: a phone number is listed — worth a call before a special trip.
1B Calle de Andalucía, Torrelavega, 39300
Phone: +34 942 80 51 88
Inés
Bookstore23.7 km from Santander
Inés — Bookstore.
Bookstore listings for Santander: 23 in Santander and 13 more nearby mapped from OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL). Photos from Wikimedia Commons contributors; individual photo credits appear in captions. Listing data was last refreshed automatically — verify hours before visiting.