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Many years ago in the village of Cantabria ,Liérganes, lived a widow who had four children. One of them loved to swim in the river of his people, the river Miera, and people say  one day he went down to the village of Cubas and he went swimming across the Bay of Santander.
One day his mother sent him to work as a carpenter to Bilbao .
One day the boy was swimming in the river with his friends when he disappeared downstream.
His friends did not care about him because they  knew he could swim very well.
Five years later the boy did not appear and his friends gave him  up for drowned. Then, one day ,some fishermen  from Cádiz caught in their nets a man with strange scales and he talked about anything, but one day he said one word: Liérganes.
Another day, someone reported that “Liérganes” was a real place and they decided to take the fish man there.

He was brought to a house there ,and his mother was there. He was the boy who was lost downstream.
He lived with his mother, brothers and sisters until one day no one knew that he went into the sea and nobody ever knew about him or  about his mystery.            

The legend tells about a man, half human and half serpent, guarding a great treasure in the cave of Peñacastillo .
Philip II ,the most powerful king at that time, commanded a sorcerer or magician in charge of an Italian expedition to ward off the monster and  to grab all the treasures they find. Just he came and  he saw  the monster. The magician ran away and nobody knew about him

My great grandmother did not allow  my grandmother to go with her sisters to Mount Peñacastillo to avoid them to enter into the cave.

Many years ago, in the river Miera, seven brothers came sailing in a boat . Off the boat and they arrived in a land that they liked to live. They decided to stay and  they thought of giving  a name to it. As they were seven brothers  they decided to call it “Septién”.
From this legend  it comes the name of my town called “Setién” (location in the council of Marina de Cudeyo, in Cantabria, where our school is).

There is a legend that as a starting point has got Agüero village and  as ending point has got Somarriba village.
According to legend the origin of freedom and the nobility of the trasmeranas people was due to a concession made to a family member  of  the Agüero`s. The king in gratitude for services gave to such Agüero  the privilege of doing noble land all  that  he could only travel in one day on the back of his horse (donkey in other versions).
They say that the horse walked all day and came to the village of Pámanes where they could not continue over and  he died. The inhabitants of Somarriba  were thwarted because they were worse off than their neighbors ,then dragged the horse-or donkey-up to where the Cross of Somarriba was.

This  is the way they succeeded  that place was the limit allowed by the king and that's why those from Pámanes are called "arrastrados"(crawlers).

In the village of Pontejos there was a farm that was called “Muslera” in where there was a chapel with a virgin who was loved by its inhabitants, but the neighbours from Pontejos village, who had a reputation for drinkers, sold the virgin by a few barrels of wine to Guarnizo inhabitants.

They say that one night it was seen a light in the middle of the river, People  went to see and  they saw that it was the virgin who was coming back, so that happened twice more until finally  the virgin stayed in Guarnizo village.

Pontejos inhabitants ,after drinking the wine, were regreted of having sold the statue.
And they went to steal it. On the way back they dropped the virgin to the river and  she went swimming to Guarnizo village.