The paper explores the crisis of the territorial model in Spain with the collapse of the compromise achieved during the transitional period. The disappearance of the consensus has been followed by the manifestation of two contradicting tendencies: a centripetal one, characterised by the formulation of centralising reforms and a centrifugal one represented by the rise of a separatist independentism that puts into question the continuation of Spain as a unified country. The fate of the Spanish autonomic state is something of great importance from the theoretical point of view since it was an alternative to both the federal and unitary models. Both the inherent mechanics of the Spanish territorial model and the contingent variables will be taken into consideration in analysis that assesses the viability of the Spanish territorial model.
