Schengen — border reopens

MAR 26 1995 · 12:30

Spain and Portugal both accede to the Schengen Area on 26 March 1995. The checkpoints between Paymogo and Barrancos, Rosal de la Frontera and Ficalho disappear; weekly cross-border trade — that ran continuously from medieval times until the 20th-century border closures — resumes after a 50-year administrative interruption.