The gallery ESPIRAL was created and inaugurated in the western area of Cantabria in December 2006 and has been re-founded in 2013 in its new headquarters in Noja. Dedicated to the national and international contemporary art of the first and second markets, with innovative artistic proposals and languages, it covers all contemporary art trends, with the presence of artists from Cantabria and from anywhere else in Spain of diverse nationalities. The gallery Espiral is especially interested in the foreign market promoting and defending its artists at international fairs in Brussels, Strasbourg, Lille, Santander and Madrid, among other countries.

Directed by Manuel Sáenz-Messía and Ana Laguna Vela, it was born establishing a special interrelationship with SIANOJA, (International Symposium of Artists), a project of which they are the authors and managers, focused on promoting the works of participating artists.