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Flags of Spain and Portugal at a friendly volleyball game between their national teams. Current relations between Spain and Portugal are excellent. [3] They cooperate in the fight against drug trafficking and forest fires (common in the Iberian Peninsula in summers), for example.
The Iberian Union is a historiographical term used to describe the personal union of the Kingdom of Portugal with the Monarchy of Spain, which in turn was itself the dynastic union of the crowns of Castile and Aragon, and of their respective colonial empires, that existed between 1580 and 1640 and brought the entire Iberian Peninsula except Andorra, as well as Portuguese and Spanish overseas ...
Location map. Politics portal; Portugal portal; Spain portal ... Portugal–Spain sports relations (2 C, 3 P)-Portuguese expatriates in Spain (3 C, 7 P)
See Andorra–Portugal relations. Andorra has an embassy in Lisbon. Portugal is accredited to Andorra from its embassy in Madrid, Spain. Austria: April 1696 [3] See Austria–Portugal relations. Austria has an embassy in Lisbon. Portugal has an embassy in Vienna. Both countries are full members of the European Union and of the Council of Europe ...
Geographical map of Spain Map of Spain (Instituto Geográfico Nacional, 2000) Map of Spain and Portugal, Corrected and Augmented from the Map Published by D. Tomas Lopez, 1810. Spain is a country located in southwestern Europe occupying most (about 82 percent) of the Iberian Peninsula.
The Iberian Union (1580–1640), a 60-year dynastic union between Portugal and Spain, interrupted the alliance.The struggle of Elizabeth I of England against Philip II of Spain in the sixteenth century meant that Portugal and England were on opposite sides of the Anglo-Spanish War (1585–1604) and the Dutch–Portuguese War.
Portugal is a sovereign country principally located on the Iberian Peninsula in Southern Europe. [1] It is the westernmost country of continental Europe and is bordered by the Atlantic Ocean to the west and south and by Spain to the north and east. The Atlantic archipelagos of the Azores and Madeira (including the Savage Islands) are also part ...
The Portugal–Spain border is 1,234 km (767 mi) long, and is the longest uninterrupted border within the European Union, being free of border control since March 26, 1995 (the effective date of the Schengen Agreement), with a few temporary exceptions, such as in the 2020 lockdown caused by the COVID-19 Pandemic.