Real Madrid players warm up under a dark sky due to the total solar eclipse at the Riazor stadium in A Coruna, ahead of a friendly football match between Deportivo de la Coruna vs Real Madrid, on August 12, 2026. Millions of Europeans contemplated the sky in awe today during a rare total solar eclipse that will plunge a swathe of Spain into an eerie daytime darkness. The shadow cast when the Moon covers the Sun began in Russia's remote Arctic north at around 1700 GMT and continued in an arc through Greenland and Iceland. Spain is where most people viewed the total eclipse, which crossed the country diagonally from the northern Atlantic coast to the Mediterranean Sea, where it vanished at around 1830 GMT. (Photo by Miguel RIOPA / AFP via Getty Images)