Mount Santiago is located in the northeasternmost part of the province of Burgos, right on the border with Álava, in the Losa Valley area.

At the entrance to the Mount Santiago Natural Monument, you’ll find the park’s visitor center, where you’ll be welcomed and given information about its history through various information panels. There’s also a visitor information area where a guide can provide information about different aspects of the natural monument and help you plan your visit.

The Mount Santiago monument is best known for the views from its viewpoints. At the Salto del Nervión viewpoint, you can admire the more than 300-meter drop of the Nervión River as it forms a unique horsetail shape—a natural spectacle well worth visiting, especially in winter and spring.

If we take the path along the cliff edge, which hugs the vertical wall without any danger but offers breathtaking views, we’ll reach the second viewpoint, “Esquina de Rubén,” which, like the first, hangs over the precipice.

Likewise, a visit to the Monte Santiago Natural Monument wouldn’t be complete without visiting “La Lobera,” where an old wolf hunt has been recreated. We’ll reach the structure by following the PR-BU42 trail, also known as the Nervión Viewpoint Trail. A karst formation with countless sinkholes, dolines, and galleries, it’s an example of a Cantabrian beech forest, the natural habitat of birds such as the griffon vulture, the robin, the tawny owl, and the chaffinch, as well as other animals like wild boar, deer, roe deer, fox, beech marten, dormouse, salamander, and agile frog.