{"id":69823,"date":"2026-08-12T21:17:08","date_gmt":"2026-08-12T21:17:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/69823\/"},"modified":"2026-08-12T21:17:08","modified_gmt":"2026-08-12T21:17:08","slug":"solar-eclipse-turns-day-to-night-in-spain-wows-crowds-across-europe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/69823\/","title":{"rendered":"Solar eclipse turns day to night in Spain, wows crowds across Europe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Day briefly turned to night in Spain on Wednesday, as the country witnessed its first total solar eclipse in more than a century, plunging it into eerie darkness in one of nature\u2019s greatest spectacles.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">The spectral glow of the sun\u2019s outer corona, shimmering out of the edges of the shadowy moon, drew gasps and cheers from huge crowds, just 90 minutes after it first appeared in the remote Arctic region of northern Russia.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">\u201cIt\u2019s a sight I never would have imagined seeing,\u201d said Isabel Troyano, a 56-year-old homemaker, watching with her son in Tarragona, on Spain\u2019s Mediterranean coast. \u201cI got goosebumps.\u201d<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Alejandro Cuesta, a 30-year-old nanoscience researcher, called it \u201cincredible \u2026 I almost burst into tears. I got chills all over my body.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">\u201cIt was magnificent \u2026 the most beautiful thing I\u2019ve seen in my entire life.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"A man dances during a partial solar eclipse on top of Great Feldberg mountain northwest of Frankfurt, Germany, on Wednesday. Photo: EPA\" data-qa=\"BaseImage-handleRenderImage-StyledImage\" class=\"e1gf69pb2 css-6ikqhs e445x7d0\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/d6a89fa3-cd59-4de2-b2e9-132f8a08fadb_ba0b4daa.jpg\" title=\"A man dances during a partial solar eclipse on top of Great Feldberg mountain northwest of Frankfurt, Germany, on Wednesday. Photo: EPA\"\/>A man dances during a partial solar eclipse on top of Great Feldberg mountain northwest of Frankfurt, Germany, on Wednesday. Photo: EPA<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">The eclipse \u2013 a first in mainland Europe since 2006 \u2013 cast its shadow through parts of Greenland, racing south to smother Keflavik, some 50km (30 miles) from Iceland\u2019s capital, Reykjavik, before arcing across the Atlantic Ocean towards northern Spain.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Day briefly turned to night in Spain on Wednesday, as the country witnessed its first total solar eclipse&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":69824,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[9513,4931,3937,66,15303,13062,4697,9530,1895,27400,27401,27249,17,26,27402],"class_list":["post-69823","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-spain","tag-atlantic-ocean","tag-balearic-islands","tag-canada","tag-europe","tag-greenland","tag-iceland","tag-london","tag-nasa","tag-paris","tag-paris-observatory","tag-pic-du-midi","tag-reykjavik","tag-spain","tag-united-states","tag-westfjords"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69823","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=69823"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69823\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/69824"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69823"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69823"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69823"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}