Photo location game · Europe
France landmarks quiz: guess where 36 photos were taken
France in 36 photographs, each pinned to the map with a line of context. Five are dealt per round.
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Five France photos. For each one, tap the spot on the map and see how far off you were.
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The wrought-iron lattice tower on the Champ de Mars, built for the 1889 World's Fair.
Photo: Jorge Royan / CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Half-timbered Alsatian houses along a 'Little Venice' canal.
Photo: karlheinz klingbeil / CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
An abbey crowning a tidal island off the Normandy coast.
Photo: Benh LIEU SONG / CC BY 2.5, via Wikimedia Commons
A canal-laced old town beneath the Alps on a glacial lake.
Photo: Guilhem Vellut from Annecy, France / CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
The triumphal arch at the top of the Champs-Élysées.
Photo: Tim Adams / CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
A Renaissance château with a forest of roof turrets in the Loire.
Photo: Benh LIEU SONG / CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
A double-walled medieval fortress town with conical turrets.
Photo: Mike McBey / CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
A three-tier Roman aqueduct bridge over the Gardon.
Photo: Benh LIEU SONG (Flickr) / CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
A classical square mirrored in a thin sheet of water.
Photo: Mariusz Strawinski / CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
A Loire château built right into the riverbed, now a contemporary art museum.
Photo: Marc Ryckaert / CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
The fortress-palace of the popes during their 14th-century exile from Rome.
Photo: W. Bulach / CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Steep volcanic islands in the Pacific where Gauguin spent his last years.
Photo: Sémhur ·✉·✍· / CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
The bohemian hill of Paris, crowned by the white domes of Sacré-Cœur.
Photo: Navin75 / CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Paris's opulent opera house, the setting of The Phantom of the Opera.
Photo: Alexander Hoernigk / CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
A 240-kilometre canal from 1681 linking Toulouse to the Mediterranean.
Photo: M.Strīķis / CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
A Gothic cathedral with no transept and a famous five-portal facade.
Photo: Gerd Eichmann / CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
A hollow 110-metre cube at La Défense, aligned with the Arc de Triomphe.
Photo: Cristian Bortes from Cluj-Napoca, Romania / CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
A Romanesque hilltop basilica where the Second Crusade was preached in 1146.
Photo: Carsten Steger / CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
The mother abbey of a monastic order, once the largest church in Christendom.
Photo: Carsten Steger / CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
The notorious French penal colony island where Dreyfus was imprisoned.
Photo: Gfievet / CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
A French coral island in the Mozambique Channel, with a lagoon and no inhabitants.
Photo: TAAF / CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
An Atlantic island of white villages, salt marshes and bicycles, linked to La Rochelle by bridge.
Photo: Jebulon / CC0, via Wikimedia Commons
Louis XIV's colossal palace of mirrors and formal gardens outside Paris.
Photo: ToucanWings / CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
The lone 210-metre skyscraper Parisians love to hate, with a rooftop view of the city.
Photo: Diliff, edited by Fir0002 / CC BY 2.5, via Wikimedia Commons
A 17th-century palace built for Marie de' Medici, now the French Senate.
Photo: Luis Miguel Bugallo Sánchez (Lmbuga) / CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
The textile town of northern France where the Paris–Roubaix cycling race ends.
Photo: Mairie de roubaix / CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
The 1926 Moorish-style mosque of Paris, with a 33-metre minaret and a tea garden.
Photo: LPLT / CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
The Riviera resort of the film festival, with a palm-lined seafront boulevard.
Photo: Jenny Andersson / News Oresund / CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Corsica's capital and Napoleon's birthplace, on a bay of red granite.
Photo: Julian Nyča / CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
A 3,842-metre needle above Chamonix, with a glass box hanging over the void.
Photo: Martin Janner / CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
A South Pacific island ringed by a lagoon, the main island of the Austral group.
Photo: Jérémie Silvestro (If you can improve this photo development, ask me the RAW.) / CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
The French port closest to England, with a Flemish town hall and Rodin's Burghers.
Photo: Velvet / CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
A royal fortress with the tallest medieval keep in Europe, on the edge of Paris.
Photo: ignis / CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
One of the best-preserved Roman temples anywhere, in the centre of Nîmes.
Photo: Krzysztof Golik / CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
The busiest railway station in Europe, a 19th-century facade of 23 statues.
Photo: Matthias Süßen / CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
The volcano whose 1902 eruption destroyed the town of Saint-Pierre in minutes.
Photo: Public domain, via Wikimedia CommonsHow to place them
Eleven of the 36 are in Paris or at its edge: the Eiffel Tower, the Arc de Triomphe, Montmartre, the Palais Garnier, the Gare du Nord, the Luxembourg Palace, the Grand Mosque and the Montparnasse Tower inside the city, Vincennes on the eastern edge, the Grande Arche at La Défense in the west, Versailles 15 km south-west. Any Parisian photo you cannot pin to a district, pin to the middle of the city; most of them carry a 10 km radius and that covers the centre.
The south has its own cluster in Provence and Languedoc: the Pont du Gard, the Maison Carrée at Nîmes and the Palais des Papes at Avignon sit within 25 km of each other, with Carcassonne and the Canal du Midi further west towards Toulouse and Cannes on the Riviera to the east. The Loire has Chambord and Montsoreau. Alsace has Colmar, on the German side. The Alps have Annecy and the Aiguille du Midi above Chamonix.
Five places are not in Europe at all. The Marquesas and Tubuai are in French Polynesia, in the South Pacific; Devil's Island is off French Guiana in South America; Mount Pelée is on Martinique in the Caribbean; Juan de Nova is a speck in the Mozambique Channel between Madagascar and Africa. They are shown with the others below but left out of the map round, because a map of France cannot hold them.
France is one country. The daily draws from all 167.
Play the daily in the appQuestions & answers
How many places in France are in the game?
36 places, counting five outside the mainland map. Calais is the top of the map and Tubuai the bottom.
Which photo from France is the hardest?
Annecy, the only one rated hard. At that level the score halves every 451 km past the accuracy radius.
Which one is easiest to score full points on?
Marquesas Islands, which forgives 150 km in every direction before a single point is lost.