Arcos de las Salinas, the town in Teruel that fears it will be overwhelmed by tourists because of the eclipse: “We will die of success”
The 80-inhabitant municipality is at the foot of the hill that houses the largest astronomical dissemination center in Europe, but it has no hotel rooms or services.
The beers and neighbors multiply under the yellow awnings of the only bar in Arcos de las Salinas. Everyone knows that a solar eclipse is approaching. Most are aware that at Galáctica, the largest astronomical dissemination center in Europe, located up in the mountains, there will be an event for 1,000 spectators. Only a few know that, even higher up, from the Javalambre Astrophysical Observatory, the European Space Agency (ESA) will broadcast to the rest of the world those 90 seconds in which the Moon will completely cover the Sun.
What no one can calculate in this town south of Teruel —not even the Government of Aragon— is how many people will flood the area to admire the astronomical phenomenon under one of the clearest skies in Spain. And they won't know until that August 12.
Read on: And you, how will you experience the eclipse? At EL PAÍS, we want to know how you, our readers, are preparing for the astronomical phenomenon of August 12. Send us to participacion@elpais.es your testimony of how you are preparing or how your town or city will receive the eclipse. You can include photos if you want. Next Monday, August 10, we will publish some of the eclipse stories from our readers.
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