The day of the two nights arrives: millions of Spaniards seek their place to see the eclipse
With destinations in the interior fully booked for over a year and thousands of people who will make a last-minute decision, Spain will experience a unique astronomical phenomenon on August 12 that will be a challenge for the authorities.
Next Wednesday, August 12, after 8:25 pm, when the Moon completely covers the Sun in the first total eclipse to be seen on the Peninsula in over a hundred years, veteran astronomer José Ángel Docobo will ask the hundreds of people gathered simultaneously at the Altar of the Sun, a megalithic monument in Lalín (Pontevedra), and on the Beach of the Cathedrals in Ribadeo (Lugo), to count to three and take off their protective glasses in order to see the solar corona with their own eyes.
“You have to look at it, but not get too enamored either, because in some places the totality will last only seconds and you have to be extremely careful because the solar light will return immediately and we can't keep looking,” he warns.
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