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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.
230 places · 98 localities · last reviewed 21 September 2026
Spain
ValenciaValencia's ground carries Roman foundations, a royal conquest in 1238, and a papal request in 1246 that finally became a classroom seven centuries later. Kings, friars and floods have each left their mark, from the buried city of Valentia to the archive begun in 1419.
1 dig
14 records Spain MurciaMurcia grew around a Muslim citadel seized in 1243, when a treaty placed the city under Castilian protection and its ruling family was soon pushed out of its own fortress. That citadel became a church, a Templar hospital and now a museum, one thread in a town of bridges, floods and a flour mill turned landmark. 1 dig
14 records 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
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14 records Spain MurciaMurcia grew around a Muslim citadel seized in 1243, when a treaty placed the city under Castilian protection and its ruling family was soon pushed out of its own fortress. That citadel became a church, a Templar hospital and now a museum, one thread in a town of bridges, floods and a flour mill turned landmark. 1 dig
14 records 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
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