Millions of Spaniards marvel at the solar eclipse: “I want another one! When is there another one?”

With screams, applause, and some tears of emotion, this is how Spain experienced its first eclipse of the century, which darkened a huge strip of the Peninsula ―from Galicia to the Valencian Community, to disappear into the sea after passing through the Balearic Islands― around 8:30 in the evening. At that time, when the false sunset had already tinted the atmosphere silver and the torrid temperature of mid-August had dropped a few degrees, the image everyone was waiting for arrived: the Moon completely covered the Sun and the thousands of Spaniards and tourists who had gathered to see the astronomical phenomenon celebrated the scene on beaches, orchards, official viewpoints, football fields, medieval castles, and moors.