Spain, the world's second most visited country after France, has been grappling with a severe heatwave that shattered temperature records across parts of the country, threatening its summer tourism boom.

Nearly all of Spain was under a heat alert on Tuesday, with parts of the south and north of the country placed on the highest warning level as a heatwave grips most of western…

Spain’s state weather agency Aemet reported that Monday and Tuesday registered the highest average June temperatures on mainland Spain since at least 1950.