For the first time in more than a century, a total solar eclipse is coming to mainland Spain, with an even longer encore next summer.
It is all the more extraordinary considering Spain's last full solar eclipse, not counting the Canary Islands, occurred two days before the Titanic sank in 1912.
Because that rare hybrid eclipse was a mix between a ring-of-fire and just a few seconds of totality for Spain, some consider 1905 the country's last pull-out-all-the-stops solar eclipse.
Add a crescendoing meteor shower and a six-planet parade on the same day, and the heavens will be overflowing with spectacle.
On 12 August, the sky over the Iberian Peninsula will fall dark just as the sun starts to set, with slivers of Greenland and Iceland getting the same treatment as the sun, moon and Earth line up perfectly.
