Country · 9 places dug
The history of Spain
19 digs · 252 sourced records · last reviewed 8 November 2026
Strata has dug 9 places in Spain — Madrid, Jerez de la Frontera, Barcelona and more: 19 spots of ground, 252 sourced records, from deep time to the modern era. Each place below is a page of its own, assembled from what happened on particular ground there, with every record linked to its source.
Places dug in Spain
The history of MadridMadrid's royal park turned public garden — Madrid gathers here as a city rebuilt and reopened in layers: a royal park turned public garden, a banking palace turned hotel, a street widened in the nineteenth century, a restaurant open since 1865, and ground marked twice by bombing, in 1974 and 2006. 6 digs62 records The history of Jerez de la FronteraA mayor's stunt got a track banned from Formula One forever — Jerez de la Frontera grew around an Almohad alcázar whose mosque, baths and cisterns made it a self-sufficient town within a town, until Christian forces took it in 1261 and again, decisively, in 1264. 3 digs
72 records The history of BarcelonaAn Eixample street corner — This record gathers two corners of Barcelona's Eixample district: Carrer de Sardenya, beside Gaudí's workers' schoolhouse, and Carrer del Consell de Cent, home to the city's oldest surviving public library. 3 digs
36 records The history of SevillaThe car park that dug up two thousand years — Plaza de la Encarnación in Sevilla began as ground that carried Roman floors, a Muslim-era wall and gate, and Visigothic remains, later home to an Augustinian convent razed on Napoleonic orders in 1810. 2 digs
30 records The history of EsteponaThe mosque that became a church that became a ruin — Estepona's ground carries a long sequence of change: stone tombs from 3000 BC, Roman settlement and cemetery, a shift from Christian to Islamic burial rites, and the town's seizure by Henry IV's forces in 1457, when its mosque became a church. 1 dig
14 records The history of MurciaA prince took a palace that was never legally his to take — Murcia grew from a Muslim emirate's walled palace-fortress into a Castilian city, its citadel surrendered by treaty in 1243 and its ruling family displaced within a generation. 1 dig
14 records The history of ValenciaA friar's zeal built a university, a soldier burned its books — Valencia's ground carries a long span: Roman Valentia beneath the streets, a city conquered by James I of Aragon in 1238, a university requested of the pope in 1246 and finally chartered in 1499, and a school founded in 1959 on ground close by. 1 dig
14 records The history of ManilvaA quiet street above Manilva's coast — Manilva's coastline carries a long memory of watchfulness: a Nasrid tower stood on this hill before the Spanish crown ordered the coast defended in 1497, and the stone watchtower that followed still looks over Calle Mármol, a quiet residential street built within sight of both tower and an ancient hilltop settlement. 1 dig
7 records The history of VigoTownspeople who beat an army without one — Vigo's Praza da Independencia takes its name from the 1809 Reconquest, when townspeople without a regular garrison drove occupying French forces from the city during the Peninsular War. 1 dig
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