RESOLVING THE LEDGER
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Somosierra will be prime spot to view celestial alignment on 12 August, an event that poses logistical challenges
Little stirs in the mountains above Somosierra beyond the wind that lashes the flat peaks, the cows that graze on parched grass and the sun that beats down on the abandoned aerodrome where generations of glider pilots learned to ride air currents alongside squadrons of vultures and red kites.
But all this stillness will disappear, albeit temporarily, on the evening of 12 August, when swathes of northern and eastern Spain and the Balearic islands experience a total solar eclipse , the likes of which has not been seen here for more than 120 years.
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