Iberia, the European zone with highest biodiversity

[FeederOfRavens]

I'd say mountain forest and plateau, the typical Quixote landscape:

For someone who is used to plains and flatlands like me, these would be mountains.

[Empecinado]

For someone who is used to plains and flatlands like me, these would be mountains.

The Castilian meseta is a high plain, it looks like flat (eventhough is around 600 meters height on average) with some small mountains. Very hot in summer, and very cold in winter. It's mostly made up cereal crops with some spared trees:

[Dandelion]

You even have tarantulas and scorpions.

[Empecinado]

You even have tarantulas and scorpions.

Yes, the wolf spider (fortunately not so big as other tarantulas):



And the 3 native scorpion species.

[Dandelion]

Yes, the wolf spider (fortunately not so big as other tarantulas):

You caught that one yourself?

[Smaug]

Beautiful country, simply beautiful.

[Empecinado]

You caught that one yourself?

No, I found the photo in a forum. A guy found the spider in his gilfriend home and keeps it as a pet (I wonder what his girlfriend think about it).

[Lábaru]

The fact is that Spain was fighting against Muslims in lands of other European nationsm Vienna, the Mediterranean, the Balkans.

[Tietar]

The Irati Forest (Navarre) is the second largest and best preserved beech and fir forest in Europe

[Shah-Jehan]

Interesting, thought it was Russia.