The Cabo Mayor Faro Center, has received a total of 90,000 visitors during the past year, which doubles the visits received in 2011. Since its inauguration, in August 2006 to date, the 275,000 visits have been exceeded, with a Annual average of more than 50,000 people. The figures reached last year are a record of visitors.
This center is a cultural initiative promoted by the Port Authority of Santander and aimed at providing the capital of Cantabria with a museum space committed to the dissemination, interpretation and preservation of creations inspired by the sea. The installation is based on the strong symbolic, landscape and architectural presence of the Cabo Mayor, and the exceptional collection of works of art, objects and curiosities related to the sea and the headlights, which the painter Eduardo Sanz has gathered throughout of the years.
The center has five rooms distributed between the base of the Faro tower and its annexed buildings. In the “Cabo Mayor” room lies the central nucleus of the collection, a careful selection of the works of Eduardo Sanz himself dedicated to the main headlights and landscapes of the Spanish coast. The “Cabo Menor” room houses a select representation of the Spanish artistic avant -garde of the second half of the twentieth century in all supports and techniques, articulated around the theme of the lighthouse. In the “Cancel” room an original approach to the world of headlights is offered, through anthropological, cultural and technological referents, through the iconography that these infrastructure have generated on different supports; Jewelery, canning packaging, textile products or dioramas, including its stimulating role in the childhood imaginary.
In the upper part of the Cabo Mayor room, another space has been enabled, the “Isla de Mouuro” room, in order to house the temporal exhibitions of the center.
To these facilities are added those that were inaugurated last August and that culminates the project, providing the rehabilitated space for a new exhibition room, warehouse and annexes for workshops or complementary activities. The total area of the center reaches with this extension the 740 m2, of which 375 are destined for exhibition space.
Ends ‘port’
The ‘Port’ collection, which was inaugurated on October 19, will be exhibited until next Sunday, January 20. This exhibition is a selection of the collection of works of art that the Port Authority has gathered over more than 25 years of cultural activities carried out in rehabilitated port spaces for this purpose, especially; Palace del Embarcadero, Sala Naos (Sotoliva) and Faro Cabo Mayor.
Most of the works that make up the collection, approximately 80 pieces, are donations by artists or consequence of the production of exhibition projects, including: 'Port city activity', Jesús Avecilla, Victoria Civera, Eduardo Gruber, Juan Uslé and Xesús Vázquez; ‘Equivalences’, Cico Gutierrez, Joge Fernández, Luis Oti and Pedro F. Palazuelos; ‘Ars’, Txomin Badiola, Ashley Bickerton, Victoria Civera, Pello Irazu and Jon Kessler.
New opening schedule to the public
The Faro Major Art Center will open in the afternoon from next Tuesday, January 15, modifying its opening schedule to the public:
Tuesday to Saturday from 11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. and from 5:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m.
Sundays from 11:30 to 13:30
Sunday afternoon and closed Monday
FREE ADMISSION
Group visits, outside this schedule, can be arranged on the phone of the Santander Port Authority: 942 20 36 50 or through email in:
activitiesculturalles@puertosantander.es