'Event of the century': Total solar eclipse draws visitors to sleepy European villages

Millions of Europeans will contemplate the sky in awe on Wednesday as a rare total solar eclipse crosses part of the continent and plunges a swath of Spain into eerie daytime darkness. The shadow cast when the Moon blots out the Sun will begin in Russia's remote Arctic north at around 1700 GMT and continue in an arc over Greenland and Iceland.

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'Event of the century': Total solar eclipse draws visitors to sleepy European villages

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