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Spain landmarks quiz: guess where 33 photos were taken
Play a round of five photos from Spain, then see all 33 places with their photos, facts and spots on the map.
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Five places from the 33 below, in random order. Each one scores by the distance from your pin to the real spot.
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Where they are
28 on the mapAll 33 places
Gaudí's still-unfinished basilica bristling with organic spires.
Photo: Alvesgaspar / CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
A Moorish palace-fortress above Granada, backed by the Sierra Nevada.
Photo: Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Gaudí's mosaic terraces overlooking Barcelona.
Photo: Bernard Gagnon / CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
A hilltop city loop by the Tagus, ringed by medieval walls.
Photo: Chensiyuan / CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
A white town split by a deep gorge and a stone bridge.
Photo: Wolfgang Moroder / CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Gehry's titanium-clad museum curving along the river.
Photo: José Ligero Loarte / CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
A Mediterranean port with the Santa Bárbara castle on a rock above the beach.
Photo: Diego Delso / CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Western Europe's largest royal palace, with more than 3,000 rooms.
Photo: Tim Adams / CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
A Gothic cathedral with 1,800 square metres of medieval stained glass.
Photo: Luis Miguel Bugallo Sánchez (Lmbuga) / CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
A Spanish rock fortress on the Moroccan coast, joined to Africa by an 85-metre sandbar.
Photo: Soufiane elkadaoui / CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
A Spanish rock fortress just 300 metres off the Moroccan coast.
Photo: Miguel González Novo / CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
The ruins of a 10th-century caliphal palace-city outside Córdoba.
Photo: Kent Wang from Barcelona, Spain / CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
The 'Lost Mountain', the highest limestone massif in Europe at 3,355 metres.
Photo: Patrick Rouzet / CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
The oldest working lighthouse in the world, built by the Romans in the 1st century.
Photo: Luis Miguel Bugallo Sánchez (Lmbuga) / CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
A concert hall with a sweeping wave-like roof by the harbour of Santa Cruz.
Photo: Thomas Wolf, www.foto-tw.de / CC BY-SA 3.0 de, via Wikimedia Commons
A forest of more than 800 columns under striped arches, with a cathedral built inside the old mosque.
Photo: Toni Castillo Quero / CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
A misty laurel forest on La Gomera, a relic of the Tertiary period.
Photo: Diego Delso / CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
A Moorish palace still used by Spain's royal family, with lush courtyard gardens.
Photo: Cat from Sevilla, Spain / CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
The Balearic party island, with a walled old town overlooking the harbour.
Photo: athinaf / CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
An uninhabited Balearic island with a hilltop castle, now a marine national park.
Photo: Unknown author / CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
The first colonial town laid out on a grid, the model for cities in the Americas.
Photo: Thomas Wolf, www.foto-tw.de / CC BY-SA 3.0 de, via Wikimedia Commons
A ship-shaped castle on a rocky spur, said to have inspired Disney's Cinderella Castle.
Photo: Ángel Sanz de Andrés / CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Valencia's late-Gothic silk exchange with a hall of twisted columns.
Photo: Juan Mayordomo / CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
A fortified Cistercian abbey, burial place of the kings of Aragon.
Photo: Sergi Esteve (sel_commons) / CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
The Spanish fortress-citadel of Melilla on the coast of North Africa.
Photo: TonioMora / CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Red cliffs carved by Roman gold mining, using water to wash away whole mountains.
Photo: Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Spain's highest peak, a 3,715-metre volcano rising from a lunar caldera.
Photo: Thomas Wolf, www.foto-tw.de / CC BY-SA 3.0 de, via Wikimedia Commons
A serrated mountain with a monastery of the Black Madonna, Catalonia's holy peak.
Photo: MARIA ROSA FERRE ✿ / CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
A Gothic cathedral with openwork spires, burial place of El Cid.
Photo: Jebulon / CC0, via Wikimedia Commons
A Gothic-Mudéjar monastery where Columbus met the Catholic Monarchs.
Photo: Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
A baroque basilica of eleven tiled domes on the Ebro in Zaragoza.
Photo: Rab Lawrence / CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
A small Canary island of sand streets and no paved roads, off Lanzarote.
Photo: Alexander Klink / CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Picasso's birthplace on the Costa del Sol, with a Moorish fortress above the port.
Photo: Viktar Palstsiuk / CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia CommonsHow to place them
Andalusia holds the Moorish set: the Alhambra at Granada, the Mosque-Cathedral and Madinat al-Zahra at Córdoba, the Reales Alcázares at Seville, Ronda's gorge in the hills behind Málaga. Barcelona has the Sagrada Família and Park Güell, with Montserrat 40 km inland and Poblet abbey further west; Valencia's silk exchange and Alicante's castle fill the coast south of it. Madrid is the Royal Palace, with Toledo 70 km south and Segovia's ship-shaped Alcázar 70 km north.
The north is a line of cathedrals and Roman leftovers: Burgos, León and Zaragoza's Basilica of the Pillar, the Tower of Hercules lighthouse at A Coruña on the Atlantic corner, Las Médulas in the hills of León. Monte Perdido and the Ordesa canyons are the Pyrenees on the French border, the highest ground on the mainland. Bilbao's Guggenheim is on the Bay of Biscay between them.
Then the places that are not on the peninsula. Five are in the Canary Islands, off Africa at 28 north: Teide, La Laguna and the Auditorio on Tenerife, Garajonay on La Gomera, Graciosa off Lanzarote. Three are on the Moroccan coast itself: Melilla la Vieja and the two Peñones, Vélez de la Gomera and Alhucemas, rock fortresses joined to Africa by a sandbar or by nothing at all. Ibiza and Cabrera are the Balearics, east of Valencia. The Canaries sit outside the map round below; the African rocks are in it, and a pin on the Spanish mainland for any of them is over 150 km out.
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How many places from Spain can come up?
Spain has 33 places in the game. Tower of Hercules is the furthest north and Garajonay National Park the furthest south. Auditorio de Tenerife, Garajonay National Park, San Cristóbal de La Laguna, Teide National Park and Graciosa are off the map.
What is the hardest photo from Spain?
The hard ones include Alicante, León Cathedral and Peñón de Alhucemas. On any photo the score halves for every 693 km you are outside the accuracy radius.
Which photo from Spain gives the most room for error?
Several, including Peñón de Vélez de la Gomera, Peñón de Alhucemas and Garajonay National Park. They share the widest radius on this page, 60 km, and any pin inside it scores the full 5,000.