Corredor del Henares

Picture of the Iglesia de San Pedro Apóstol in Los Santos de la Humosa.

Los Santos de la Humosa: Smoke, Saints, and a Village That Kept Moving

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My family and I went to Los Santos de la Humosa on August 12, 2026, for the total solar eclipse that swept across northern Spain that day, the first to touch the Iberian Peninsula in over a century. That day became the subject of a separate post, “A Total Eclipse Came to Los Santos de […]

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Picture of the valley near the time of totality

A Total Eclipse Came to Los Santos de la Humosa. The Town Kept Its Own Time.

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Every shutter on the street was down by early afternoon, and there was nothing curated about it, no picturesque hush staged for whoever might be passing through. Doors locked, blinds drawn, not a café chair set out anywhere, the whole place gone still under a heat with real weight to it, bearing down until you

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