Published on
07/08/2026 - 15:42 GMT+2
A small village in the province of Burgos will be one of the locations used for the global broadcast of the total solar eclipse on 12 August. NASA has selected Villalibado, a village brought back to life after decades of abandonment, to host one of its teams broadcasting the phenomenon live, which will be accessible worldwide through the US space agency's digital platforms and San Francisco's Exploratorium.
The choice is down to several factors, among them its location within the path of totality, an unobstructed horizon and good communications infrastructure. The observation point will be set up next to the church of San Salvador, in the upper part of the village, where almost thirty NASA and Exploratorium scientists and technicians will prepare the international broadcast.
Joan Ansótegui, the businessman who bought Villalibado twenty years ago to turn it into a rural tourism complex, said in an interview with 'Diario de Burgos' (source in Spanish) that NASA had contacted him months earlier to rent the entire village, including the Romanesque church, for the eclipse. "I thought it was a scam," he recalled of the phone call.
