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Botín has been serving on Calle de Cuchilleros since 1725, which the Guinness Book of Records recognises as making it the oldest restaurant in the world still trading. It was founded by the French cook Jean Botín and his Asturian wife, passed to a nephew - the sobrino of the name - and still roasts suckling pig in the same wood-fired oven, which has reportedly not been allowed to go out.

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.

Frank Gehry's titanium-clad Guggenheim Museum Bilbao opened in October 1997, reviving a struggling industrial city and popularizing the aircraft-design software that made its curved form buildable.

Andoni Luis Aduriz opened his Basque restaurant in Gipuzkoa in March 1998. Restaurant Magazine has counted it among the world's best since 2006, ranking it as high as fourth.

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.

Jan De Nul's Cristóbal Colón, a 223-metre dredger with a 46,000 cubic metre hopper, was launched at the La Naval shipyard in Sestao, Spain on 4 July 2008, becoming the largest trailing suction hopper dredger ever built.

The Loro Parque Company opened Siam Park in Costa Adeje, Tenerife, a Thai-themed water park that would go on to be ranked the world's best by TripAdvisor.

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.

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.

El Hierro's Gorona del Viento plant, combining five wind turbines with a pumped-hydro reservoir, was inaugurated to make the smallest Canary Island the first in the world able to run entirely on renewable energy. Excess wind power pumps water uphill for use when the wind drops.

Airbus Defence and Space delivered the first production A400M Atlas military transport, assembled at its Seville final assembly line, to the German Luftwaffe.

Aircraft-maintenance and storage specialist Tarmac Aerosave opened its fourth Airbus A380-capable hangar at Teruel Airport, Europe's largest aircraft boneyard. The 15 million euro building, the world's largest metal-textile hangar, can house one A380 or four narrow-body jets at once.

Real Madrid's four-year overhaul of the Santiago Bernabéu — a new steel facade, retractable roof and a fully removable pitch — ran years past its original target before wrapping up.

Barcelona's basilica tops out its 172.5-metre central tower, making it the world's tallest church, timed for the centenary of Antoni Gaudí's death. Estimated date.

The first stage of Euclid Data Release 1 puts out all raw data and calibrated images, catalogues and spectra over about 1,900 square degrees of sky. The higher-level products for galaxy clustering and weak lensing follow in mid-2027.

ESA publishes the fourth Gaia data release, the mission's first principal release, covering the first 5.5 years of observations. It adds astrometric time series, an exoplanet list and the software to work with them.

HPE's flagship European conference comes to Fira Barcelona Gran Via on 2-3 December 2026, opening with Antonio Neri's keynote and running networking, cloud and AI programmes with hundreds of demos.

The GSMA's Mobile World Congress returns to Fira Gran Via for four days, with the organisers expecting more than 100,000 attendees from the connectivity industry.

Every Spanish municipality votes on 23 May 2027, alongside regional elections in twelve autonomous communities on the same day.

UEFA has awarded the 2027 Champions League final to the Riyadh Air Metropolitano in Madrid on 5 June 2027, the stadium's second final after 2019. On 20 September 2026 Kalshi's winner market made Barcelona the favourite at about 25%, ahead of Bayern Munich, Arsenal and Real Madrid on 14% and PSG on 12%.

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.

The Spanish Grand Prix runs at Madrid's Madring, the part-street, part-permanent circuit around IFEMA that took the race off Barcelona.

A centenary tournament hosted by Spain, Portugal and Morocco, with opening matches in Uruguay, Argentina and Paraguay. Estimated date.