"Iberia resembles a bull's hide stretched from West to East in length, with the front parts facing East, and from North to South in width. It is approximately six thousand stadia in length; in width, at its widest part, it is about five thousand, although there are places below three thousand, especially in the Pyrenees, which are on the eastern side." These words serve as an introduction to the third book of the seventeen that make up the ambitious Geography by Strabo (c.63 BC–24 AD), focused on exploring the current Iberian Peninsula over 2,000 years ago. The author delves into its main cities, temples, and rivers, but also into the peoples who inhabited it, including the Astures, Lusitanians, Celtiberians, Cerretani, and Laietani. What did the ancient Greeks know about us? To what extent have we changed?

In the absence of further details to explain the unprecedented blackout that hit the Iberian Peninsula yesterday, this unprecedented outage has raised questions among the energy expert community, who are trying to analyze what happened this Tuesday. ARA has consulted with industry specialists to understand the causes of the incident. Some of them also point to deficiencies in the system.