That's how EL PAÍS readers will experience the solar eclipse on August 12: "We will set up some tables and chairs next to the tomato plants."

"In family and with some friends". "With sandwiches for dinner". "The idea is to bring our snack and share it among everyone". If there is something that the final of a World Cup and the first total eclipse that can be seen in the Peninsula in over 100 years have in common, it is that both are unique moments that fill us with illusion to have had the luck to live. That's why we plan in detail the meeting site where we will see it and choose with pleasure who we want to have by our side to make it even more memorable.

Riansares Heredero, from Archilla (Guadalajara)

In Archilla, we are few, but next Wednesday, we expect to gather practically all its inhabitants to enjoy together an event that does not happen every day. And it is that, in addition to coinciding with our festivals, this year we have decided to incorporate the eclipse into our program and turn it into a special day of coexistence, scientific dissemination, and, of course, much emotion.

The problem is that our small town is located on the slope of the Tajuña River and, from Archilla, the horizon does not allow us to enjoy the eclipse in the best conditions.

So we will have to do something very typical of a town: take our things and go up to the nearest plain in search of a good place from which to contemplate it. And it has not been an improvised decision. Last May, we were looking for the place we considered most suitable. To do this, we moved to different points and checked what the horizon was like and what vision we would have approximately on August 12, taking into account the position the Sun will have on that day.

We wanted to make sure to find our small "observatory". At 7:30 p.m., when the moment we all expect arrives, we will go up to the plain to follow the eclipse. The idea is to bring our snack and share it among everyone, making this moment a true day of coexistence. Perhaps the most special thing about it is precisely that: in a small town like Archilla, where we are a few inhabitants, an astronomical phenomenon is going to make us gather practically all under the same sky.

It will be a day to look up, learn, share, and enjoy together something that we will hardly forget. We are very excited to be able to live this eclipse from our small corner of Guadalajara and we wanted to share it with you.

José Mari Lezana, from Corella (Navarra)

We are going to live the eclipse in family and with some friends. It will be in Corella, in Navarra, where the eclipse will be total. We have checked that from my brother-in-law's orchard, we will be able to enjoy seeing it perfectly, so we will put some tables and chairs next to the tomato, pepper, and zucchini plants, etc.

And we will prepare a dinner with the best products of the Navarra orchard while we enjoy the show in good company.

Javier Muñoz Tirado, from Mota del Cuervo (Cuenca)

In my case, I will see it with my family from the Sierra de los Molinos de Mota del Cuervo (Cuenca). We are in the south of the province, so our perception of the eclipse will not be 100%, but we will be close to totality. This is the Balcón de La Mancha and from the top of the mountain range, you can observe the Manchego plain loaded with vineyards and other crops.

A high surface and nothing in the horizon that prevents seeing the Sun at the time of the eclipse. In addition, from the town hall of Mota (I think together with the Association of Friends of the Mills) they have also made a video to attract neighbors and visitors to see the eclipse at the mills.

Cristina Gómez Hernández, from Aras de Olmos (Castellón)

We are going to the viewpoint of Aras de Olmos, in Castellón. We already saw the Perseids there and we believe it will be very good. We are prepared with our homologated glasses, chairs, and sandwiches for dinner. I hope it is seen well.

Jorge Corti, from El Bierzo (León)

I am not very sure how I am going to see the eclipse. I do not want to make plans. I only know that I will be in my land, first because it catches me three days before my vacation and second, because we have the luck to fall into that small strip of darkness that crosses the world on all maps.

But I do not know if I will see it. Here in my land, we no longer take anything for granted. Here, any afternoon, a lightning bolt, an electrical line, not cleared by its billionaire managers, or a crazy person sets fire to the mountain. When the savage Ávila-Madrid fire started, we had four active fires, and when the national emergency ended, a Roman gold mine was burning here.

Charo López, from the Sierra de Tramontana (Mallorca)

I live in a town in Mallorca, on the slopes of the Sierra de Tramontana, and I write to tell you that I will live the eclipse with much frustration. At the time it occurs, the Sun will have already set behind the mountains. There will be places, to the west of the island, ideal for contemplating it in its entirety, but they will be prohibited if you do not reside just there.

All access roads and paths will be closed for fear of collapse. And it is that in the Balearic Islands, we are always in the same situation, the overcrowding that makes it difficult for residents any aspect of our lives.

María Amparo Domínguez, from Mislata (Valencia)

On August 12, which is the eclipse, I am going to see it with my boyfriend on the Malvarrosa beach, here in Valencia. I hope it is spectacular.

Asociación para la Promoción y Desarrollo de los Valles Pasiegos (Cantabria)

On August 12, we want something to happen in the Valles Pasiegos that goes far beyond observing an eclipse. We imagine families, groups of friends, neighbors, and visitors gathering at sunset at the La Braguía viewpoint, surrounded by the green mountains that characterize our land.