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Ciudad Real Central Airport Opens South of Madrid
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CONFIRMED86% CONFIDENCE17.8 years agoHappened as dated, per the source[1]: "Opened in 2008, the airport shut down just four years later."A privately financed airport built to rival Madrid-Barajas opened near Ciudad Real in December 2008, before closing within four years as one of Spain's most notorious infrastructure failures.€1.1B0.58Taquería Elemi Opens in El Paso
ESTIMATED90% CONFIDENCE235 days agoThe New York Times' Restaurant List 2026 (15 September 2026) gives the opening only as January 2026, with no day. The pin sits on the last day of that month by this vertical's month-only convention, so the real opening day may be earlier in the month.[1]Emiliano and Kristal Marentes, owners of the acclaimed Elemi, open a strip-mall taquería in El Paso.0.57Caffè Florian Opens on Piazza San Marco
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ESTIMATED75% CONFIDENCE305.7 years agoThe article's infobox gives the year only - founded 1720 - so the pin sits on that year's last day.[1]Floriano Francesconi opened his coffee house under the arcades of Piazza San Marco in 1720, making it one of the oldest cafés in continuous business anywhere. It admitted women when other Venetian cafés did not, which is how Casanova came to be among its regulars, and its orchestra still plays to the square.0.56Madrid–Barcelona High-Speed Line Opens, Completing Spain's Flagship AVE Corridor
CONFIRMED80% CONFIDENCE18.6 years agoWikipedia's[3] Madrid–Barcelona high-speed rail line article gives 20 February 2008 as the date the complete line opened, after the Madrid–Zaragoza–Lleida section opened in October 2003.Adif's Madrid–Barcelona high-speed line opened in full on 20 February 2008, cutting the 621km journey to about 2 hours 30 minutes and becoming the backbone of the AVE network that engineering crews are now upgrading for 350km/h running.0.56Under Opens as Europe's First Underwater Restaurant
CONFIRMED83% CONFIDENCE7.5 years agoWikipedia[2] gives 20 March 2019, and the date holds up against the contemporary press: Aftenposten ran "Nå åpner Under. Slik ser det ut i havdypet" on 19 March 2019, the eve of the opening. Secondary coverage that says only "early 2019" or "launched in 2019" does not narrow it further.A 34-metre concrete tube is half-sunk off Norway's southernmost point and opens as a restaurant, five and a half metres down, with an 11-metre window onto the seabed. Between services it works as a marine research station.0.55Els Quatre Gats Opens in Barcelona's Casa Martí
CONFIRMED75% CONFIDENCE129.3 years agoWikipedia[1] states the day outright: "The café opened on 12 June 1897 in the celebrated Casa Martí".The café that became the meeting room of Catalan modernisme opened on 12 June 1897 in the Casa Martí, a Puig i Cadafalch building in the Gothic Quarter. It lasted only six years in its first run, but in them it hosted Picasso's first solo exhibition and the circle around Rusiñol and Casas - and he drew its menu card.0.55Antico Caffè Greco Opens on Via dei Condotti
ESTIMATED75% CONFIDENCE265.7 years agoWikipedia[1] says it "opened in 1760 on Via Condotti" and names no month or day, so the pin takes that year's last day.Antico Caffè Greco opened in 1760 a few steps from the Spanish Steps and became the room where the Grand Tour sat down - Keats, Byron, Goethe, Stendhal and Casanova among the names attached to it. It is the oldest cafe in Rome, and has spent recent years fighting its landlord in court over the rent on the premises it has occupied for more than two and a half centuries.0.55Café Tortoni Opens on Avenida de Mayo
ESTIMATED75% CONFIDENCE167.7 years agoWikipedia[1] gives the year only - "First opened in 1858 by a French immigrant" - with no month or day, so the pin sits on that year's last day.Café Tortoni first opened in 1858, started by a French immigrant who named it after a Paris cafe, and became the room where Buenos Aires argued about itself - Borges, Gardel and Rubinstein among the regulars whose likenesses now sit at its tables. It still trades on Avenida de Mayo with its original marble, mirrors and tango cellar.0.54Savoy Opens Above the Esplanade
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CONFIRMED75% CONFIDENCE89.3 years agoThe article states "The restaurant opened on 3 June 1937", giving the exact day.[1]The Savoy opened on 3 June 1937 on the top floor above the Esplanade, with an interior by Alvar and Aino Aalto - the room the Savoy Vase was designed for, and the one Mannerheim ate in often enough to leave his vorschmack on the menu permanently.0.54The Champions League Final at the Metropolitano
SCHEDULED85% CONFIDENCEin 255 daysUEFA[2] fixed the host and date years ahead: the final "will be played at the Estadio Metropolitano in Madrid, Spain, on 5 June 2027".Europe's club season ends in Madrid. The Estadio Metropolitano, Atletico Madrid's home since 2017, hosts the Champions League final for the second time after 2019, when Liverpool beat Tottenham there.0.54Tour Triangle Is Delivered at Porte de Versailles
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CONFIRMED90% CONFIDENCE15.1 years agoThe source[1] gives the day: "The restaurant closed 30 July 2011 and relaunched as El Bulli Foundation, a center for culinary creativity." Adrià had confirmed in an October 2010 Vanity Fair article that it would close permanently after July 2011.Ferran Adrià closed the most influential restaurant of its era after 47 years above Cala Montjoi, relaunching it as a culinary research foundation. It held three Michelin stars and had been named the world's best five times.0.54
