The solar eclipse will be total - meaning that the moon completely covers the sun - in a band approximately 300 kilometers wide over Spain, the Atlantic Ocean and Iceland on Wednesday evening.
To give media and experts the best view, NASA has rented Villalibado, a small village in northern Spain. The village was previously abandoned, but was bought a few decades ago by businessman Juan Ansótegui to develop tourism in the area.
"I thought it was a joke," he told the local newspaper Diario de Burgos about when NASA called to book the entire village.
Outside the path of totality, the sun's disk is partially obscured in the rest of Europe. In Sweden, the moon obscures just over 80 percent of the sun.
