Country · 8 places dug
The history of Spain
11 digs · 161 sourced records · last reviewed 17 October 2026
Strata has dug 8 places in Spain — Jerez de la Frontera, Sevilla, Estepona and more: 11 spots of ground, 161 sourced records, from prehistory 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 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 digs72 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 MadridA bomb on Calle del Correo killed thirteen in 1974 — This record gathers the ground around Puerta del Sol in Madrid, where a 1547 convent traded gossip, roads were measured from a central marker, a post office became a seat of government, and a 1974 bombing on Calle del Correo killed thirteen people and wounded seventy-one. 1 dig
7 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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