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The wait is over: Spain will experience its first total solar eclipse in more than a century

Millions of Spaniards and tourists are finalizing their preparations to see, at around 20:30, the Moon completely cover the Sun. These are the keys to a phenomenon accompanied by an enormous logistical challenge.

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The wait is over: Spain will experience its first total solar eclipse in more than a century

The ritual will begin after 7:30 p.m. at the first points in the northwest of the peninsula. Millions of Spaniards and tourists will look up to the horizon to see an ancestral and fascinating astronomical event: they will check how it gets dark in the middle of the day, while the Moon completely covers the Sun in the first total eclipse to cross the Peninsula in 121 years, from Galicia to the Balearic Islands, which will be fully visible in a good part of the northern half of the peninsula.

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