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Every place Strata has dug, assembled from its sources and filed by locality and era. A place is reviewed again whenever the ground beneath it is dug afresh.
125 places · 53 localities · last reviewed 12 September 2026
Spain
VigoVigo's Praza da Independencia holds the memory of 1809, when fishermen, farmers, and townsfolk forced occupying French troops out of the city without any garrison of Spanish regulars to lead them, an episode still called the Reconquest of Vigo.
1 dig
3 records Spain MadridPuerta del Sol has long been the square where Madrid's public life gathered: a convent's steps for gossip, a lost fountain, the point from which every Spanish road is measured, a post office turned seat of government, and, on 13 September 1974, the site of a bombing that killed thirteen people. 1 dig
7 records
3 records Spain MadridPuerta del Sol has long been the square where Madrid's public life gathered: a convent's steps for gossip, a lost fountain, the point from which every Spanish road is measured, a post office turned seat of government, and, on 13 September 1974, the site of a bombing that killed thirteen people. 1 dig
7 records
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