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Greece landmarks quiz: guess where 38 photos were taken
38 photographs of Greece and the map they belong on. Five make a round; the full set is below for study.
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A photo, then the map. Five rounds from Greece, scored by how far off your pin lands.
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White cubic houses and blue domes on the caldera cliffs of the Aegean.
Photo: Giles Laurent / CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
The Parthenon crowning the limestone hill above Athens.
Photo: A.Savin / CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Monasteries perched atop towering natural rock pillars.
Photo: Jolovema / CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Whitewashed lanes and windmills above an Aegean harbour.
Photo: Zde / CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
A Venetian seaside town below the Palamidi fortress.
Photo: Georgios Karabelas / CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
A walled medieval town built by the Knights of St. John.
Photo: Jebulon / CC0, via Wikimedia Commons
A shipwreck on white sand between towering limestone cliffs.
Photo: Wilnel José Verdú Guerrero / CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
The Ionian island where Venetian fortresses guard a pastel old town.
Photo: Martin Falbisoner / CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
The Aegean island of Pythagoras, with the ancient Eupalinos tunnel aqueduct.
Photo: Pe-sa / CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
The tiny sacred island said to be the birthplace of Apollo, covered in ruins.
Photo: Romain Delanoë / CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
The northernmost Cycladic island, greener than its neighbours, with a marble old town.
Photo: Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
The largest Ionian island, setting of Captain Corelli's Mandolin.
Photo: Matt Sims / CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
The Dodecanese island of Hippocrates, with a Knights' castle at the harbour.
Photo: Arne Müseler / CC BY-SA 3.0 de, via Wikimedia Commons
The Ionian island claimed as the homeland of Odysseus.
Photo: auteur / CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
The largest Cycladic island, with the marble Portara gate of an unfinished temple.
Photo: Rol1000 / CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
The island where St John wrote the Book of Revelation, crowned by a fortified monastery.
Photo: EntaXoyas / CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
An Ionian island reached by road, with the white cliffs of Egremni beach.
Photo: Alf van Beem / CC0, via Wikimedia Commons
A Byzantine hill town of churches and palaces on the slopes of Mount Taygetos.
Photo: Joyofmuseums / CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
The Saronic island of pistachios and the Temple of Aphaia, an hour from Athens.
Photo: Jebulon / CC0, via Wikimedia Commons
The Cycladic island whose marble was used for the Venus de Milo.
Photo: rene boulay / CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
The island off Piraeus where the Greeks defeated the Persian fleet in 480 BC.
Photo: Michal Klajban / CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
The volcanic Cycladic island where the Venus de Milo was found.
Photo: Oliwan / CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
A long Dodecanese island where the village of Olympos keeps old customs alive.
Photo: Ввласенко / CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
The island at the tip of the Peloponnese, one of the mythical birthplaces of Aphrodite.
Photo: Ingo Mehling / CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
A car-free island of stone mansions where donkeys do the carrying.
Photo: Herbert Ortner, Vienna, Austria / CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
The Sporades island where Achilles hid disguised as a girl, with a hilltop white town.
Photo: Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
The Aegean island where people famously live long, named for the fall of Icarus.
Photo: Annatsach / CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
The Cycladic capital island, with the neoclassical harbour town of Ermoupoli.
Photo: Hans Peter Schaefer, http://www.reserv-a-rt.de / CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
The green Sporades island where Mamma Mia! was filmed.
Photo: dronepicr / CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
A Cycladic island of pottery, white villages and a monastery on a sea rock.
Photo: rene boulay / CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
The Cycladic island closest to Athens, with a hidden hilltop capital and a stone lion.
Photo: Michael Paraskevas / CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
A rocky Cycladic island with a white amphitheatre village above the harbour.
Photo: C messier / CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
The sanctuary where the ancient Olympic Games were held for a thousand years.
Photo: dronepicr / CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
A Dodecanese island with an Italian Art Deco town and a medieval castle.
Photo: Robert Powell / CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
An 11th-century Byzantine monastery famed for its gold mosaics, near Athens.
Photo: Sp!ros / CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
The Dodecanese island of sponge divers and world-class rock climbing.
Photo: Unknown author / CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
A small Ionian island of olive groves and sea caves, south of Corfu.
Photo: Effrosyni Moschoudi / CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
A round volcanic island in the Dodecanese with a steaming crater you can walk into.
Photo: Ввласенко / CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia CommonsHow to place them
Most of the 38 are islands, so learn the groups before the names. The Cyclades are the tight cluster in the middle of the Aegean: Mykonos, Delos, Naxos, Paros and Syros within 50 km of each other, Milos, Sifnos and Serifos a little to the south-west, Andros and Kea at the top near Attica, Santorini at the bottom. The Dodecanese hug the Turkish coast: Patmos, Leros, Kalymnos, Kos and Nisyros in a line running south, Rhodes and Karpathos further down.
The Ionian islands are the west side, in the sea towards Italy: Corfu and Paxos at the top, then Lefkada, Ithaca, Cephalonia and Zakynthos with its shipwreck beach. Samos and Icaria are on their own in the eastern Aegean, north of the Dodecanese. A whitewashed village with blue domes is the Cyclades. A Venetian fortress over a pastel town is Corfu or Nafplio. Knights' walls are Rhodes or Kos.
The mainland places are few and easy to separate. The Acropolis, Daphni, Salamis and Aegina are all within 35 km of Athens. Meteora is the northernmost place in the set, 140 km from the nearest other one, rock pillars on the edge of the Thessaly plain. Olympia and Mystras are in the Peloponnese, west and south of Nafplio; Kythira is the island off its southern tip.
Greece is one country. The daily draws from all 167.
Play the daily in the appQuestions & answers
How many locations does Greece get?
There are 38, spanning Meteora to Karpathos. Five come up per round.
Which Greece location is rated hardest?
Meteora, Mykonos and Nafplio, plus 14 more, carry the medium rating, where 693 km of error costs half the score.
Which Greece photo forgives the widest miss?
Corfu. Its radius is 60 km, the widest here; a pin within it takes the full 5,000.