The village of Cóbreces is a small town of 700 people which arose around the ancient convent of San Felices de la Mies about which manuscripts dating from the year 1025 are still preserved.
The peasants and fishermen who inhabited this village were for centuries directly or indirectly linked to this convent now disappeared. Cóbreces is close to the sea road which joins Santillana del Mar with Comillas..
In the Pino area, in the middle of the hillside and facing the Cantabrian Sea (Atlantic Ocean) the Catholic Foundation of Villegas Pedrosa founded and built the Hermanas Monastery en 1872 in the neo-Herreriano style. It included its own Chaplanincy which became the first teaching school in Cantabria. This Monastery underwent several architectural transformations in its time until it was abandoned in the year 1974. In the year 2004 the same Catholic Foundation handed over for more than 30 years to Teatro de las Fuentes the most emblematic places of this area.
Presently all these places are being restored.
