February 28th is Andalusia Day and a regional holiday here in Andalusia. Clinica Dental Noruega is closed and we will be back as usual on Monday, March 3rd.
It celebrates the referendum held on February 28th, 1980, in which Andalusia voted to become an autonomous region within Spain in accordance with the possibilities provided for in Article 143 of the Spanish Constitution of 1978. The referendum on February 28th came after the great autonomous demonstration on December 4th, 1977, in which approximately two million people took to the streets to demand independence for Andalusia under the slogan “Freedom, amnesty and autonomous status.”
Today, Spain consists of 17 autonomous regions and two autonomous cities. Andalusia is the largest autonomy in terms of area.