IMPORTANT The live visit to the factory is only available in the morning (12:30 p.m. and subject to working calendar) from Monday to Friday when our artisans are working.
We will meet at the indicated time at the entrance to the Ana MarĆa Canned Food Anchovy Art Gallery, a prominent exhibition centre that is also known as the SantoƱa Anchovy Museum. From there, if the visit is made in the morning from Monday to Friday, we will first go to our factory to participate in the anchovy-making process live! After this visit we will go to our anchovy art gallery to enjoy the visit to the museum.
This museum will surely surprise you, as it offers a total sensory experience that will allow you to hear, see, smell, taste and touch. The exhibition is located in a unique building that recreates the seabed, where you can even see the remains of a stranded ship. Do you dare to explore this wreck?
We will begin the guided tour listening to the sound of an auction, marked by the three sirens of the SantoƱa fish market that indicate that the fish is going to be sold. Next, we will enter the exhibition linked to the seabed, where we will see a series of utensils from the last century used in the fishing and preservation of anchovies from the Cantabrian Sea.
The visit will continue in the projection room, where a video will explain the process that anchovies follow, from their fishing at sea to their preservation in a jar or can. Afterwards, a craftswoman will show us live how an octavillo is made, the tin container in which anchovies are preserved.
We will end this visit, which will last approximately 1 hour, with a tasting of anchovies from Conservas Ana MarĆa. This brand has been awarded various national and international prizes for the best anchovy in the Cantabrian Sea in recent years. It will be the perfect ending!
