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Emotional Eclipse in Spain: 'I Almost Started to Cry'

Summary by El Diario
As extraordinary as fleeting, of less than two minutes of duration, the total eclipse marveled equally to Spaniards and foreigners along a strip of territory that covered from Galicia to the Mediterranean coast and the Balearic Islands. The crowd gathered on the outskirts of Lodoso, a small town in Castile and Leon, applauded, shouted with joy and even danced before the rare astronomical event. "It seemed very exciting to me, I have put on the s…

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It is a phenomenon worth living, but from there to break to cry, or to the show that has been set up throughout Spain...

·Madrid, Spain
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Seven minutes, that is the time that took the entire eclipse to travel Spain from point to point: from the shadow of the Moon completely covered the Sun, at 20.26 hours in Cabo de Peñas (Asturias) and Estaca de Bares (A Coruña) until it left the last point of the Spanish territory, at 20.33 hours in the Faro de la Mola (Formentera). In total, 420 seconds in which Spain went out successively under the same sky. A historical phenomenon that has jo…

·Madrid, Spain
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As extraordinary as fleeting, of less than two minutes of duration, the total eclipse marveled equally to Spaniards and foreigners along a strip of territory that covered from Galicia to the Mediterranean coast and the Balearic Islands. The crowd gathered on the outskirts of Lodoso, a small town in Castile and Leon, applauded, shouted with joy and even danced before the rare astronomical event. "It seemed very exciting to me, I have put on the s…

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And the astro king finally revealed his crown. He did it under a gigantic cloak of shadow that crossed from the north to the east of Spain at hypersonic speed, in just seven minutes, from entering the Cantabrian coast at 20.26 until he left the Balearics at 20.34 to merge with the night in the Mediterranean Sea. The first total eclipse that travels the peninsular territory since 1905 fulfilled with astronomical precision the forecasts; but at th…

·Madrid, Spain
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The entire eclipse strip, the first of the three that will take place in Spain between 2026 and 2028, passed through thirteen communities, although the clouds covered the experience in some areas of the Cantabrian coast. At 20:26 hours in Spain, the moon completely covered the sun in Estaca de Bares (Galicia) and Cabo de Peñas (Asturias). In the next few minutes, the phenomenon moved throughout the entire strip on the Iberian peninsula, from whe…

While thousands of people stopped to look into the sky during the solar eclipse, Miguel Januário chose to look at who he was looking at. The visual artist and Head of Art for Sustainability of CEiiA captured "people, behaviors and different ways of looking" at the phenomenon.

·Portugal
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El Pais broke the news in Madrid, Spain on Wednesday, August 12, 2026.
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