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Switzerland landmarks quiz: guess where 29 photos were taken
29 photographs of Switzerland 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 Switzerland, scored by how far off your pin lands.
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The pyramid-shaped Alpine peak above Zermatt.
Photo: Liridon / CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
A covered wooden bridge with a stone water tower.
Photo: NOTE: This image is a panorama consisting of multiple frames that were merged or stitched in software. As a result, this image necessarily underwent some form of digital manipulation. These manipulations may include blending, blurring, cloning, and color and perspective adjustments. As a result of these adjustments, the image content may be slightly different from reality at the points where multiple images were combined. This manipulation is often required due to lens, perspective, and parallax distortions. / CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Sandstone arcades in a river bend below the Alps.
Photo: Daniel Kraft / CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
A many-armed lake where the Swiss Confederation was sworn in 1291.
Photo: Daniel Kraft / CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
An Alpine lake below the Eiger and Jungfrau, with castles on its shore.
Photo: Carsten Steger / CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
A lake at the foot of the Jura, with St Peter's Island where Rousseau hid in 1765.
Photo: W. Bulach / CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
A turquoise lake hemmed by steep mountains, twin of Lake Thun.
Photo: Carsten Steger / CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
A narrow lake beneath the sheer Churfirsten cliffs in eastern Switzerland.
Photo: Carsten Steger / CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
A small lake by the walled town of Murten, on the French–German language border.
Photo: Carsten Steger / CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
The highest mountain entirely within Switzerland, at 4,545 metres.
Photo: Zacharie Grossen / CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
A 4,506-metre pyramid of the Pennine Alps, one of the most beautiful in the range.
Photo: Christian David / CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
The highest peak of the Bernese Alps, a 4,274-metre fin of rock.
Photo: Carsten Steger / CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
The highest peak of the Eastern Alps at 4,049 metres, with a knife-edge snow ridge.
Photo: Günter Seggebäing / CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
A 3,238-metre peak reached by the world's first rotating cable car.
Photo: W. Bulach / CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Lucerne's dragon mountain, climbed by the world's steepest cogwheel railway.
Photo: Johnny Chicago at Luxembourgish Wikipedia / CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
A 4,193-metre peak beside the Aletsch Glacier, the largest in the Alps.
Photo: Paradise Chronicle / CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
A 4,158-metre Alpine peak reached by Europe's highest railway station.
Photo: Jasper.tm / CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
A baroque abbey whose library holds one of the oldest book collections in the world.
Photo: Jakub Hałun / CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
The 'Monk', the middle peak of the famous Eiger–Mönch–Jungfrau trio.
Photo: Christian David / CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
The largest waterfall in Europe by volume, 150 metres wide on the Rhine.
Photo: Christian David / CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
A high Alpine valley of lakes and larches, home to St. Moritz.
Photo: Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Switzerland's highest peak, on the Monte Rosa massif at 4,634 metres.
Photo: TobiasBender / CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
The 'Ogre' of the Bernese Alps, whose north face is the most notorious climb in Europe.
Photo: qwesy qwesy / CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
The source of the Rhône, a glacier wrapped in blankets each summer to slow its melting.
Photo: Jamcib / CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
The highest peak of Liechtenstein, at 2,599 metres on the Swiss border.
Photo: JMiall / CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Steep terraced vineyards tumbling down to Lake Geneva since the 11th century.
Photo: Lorenz Poffet / CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
The largest city of Italian-speaking Switzerland, on a lake between two sugarloaf peaks.
Photo: Aconcagua / CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
A Benedictine convent founded by Charlemagne, with the largest cycle of early medieval frescoes.
Photo: Wladyslaw / CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
The oldest national park in the Alps, a strict wilderness since 1914.
Photo: Sirleonidas / CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia CommonsHow to place them
Almost everything is in the Alps, and the Alps here come in two blocks. The Bernese Oberland, south of Bern and Lucerne, has the Eiger, Mönch and Jungfrau in a row, the Finsteraarhorn and Aletschhorn behind them, the Rhone Glacier and Titlis on the eastern side, with Lake Thun and Lake Brienz at their feet. The Valais block is further south against Italy: the Matterhorn, Dom, Weisshorn and the Dufourspitze within 20 km of each other around Zermatt.
The lakes are the middle band. Lucerne has the Chapel Bridge, Lake Lucerne and Mount Pilatus on one pin. Bern's old town, Lake Biel and Lake Murten are 65 km west of it. Walensee and the Abbey of Saint Gall are the east, with Grauspitz just over the Liechtenstein border. The Rhine Falls at Schaffhausen are the northernmost place, on the German border.
The south-east corner is Graubünden: Piz Bernina, the Engadin valley, the Swiss National Park and the Saint John convent at Müstair, all within 60 km. Lugano is the Italian-speaking south, and Lavaux's vineyards on Lake Geneva are the westernmost place. Whatever the photo shows, the country is 280 km wide, so even a wild pin rarely costs more than 2,000 points.
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Play the daily in the appQuestions & answers
How many locations does Switzerland get?
There are 29, spanning Rhine Falls to Dufourspitze. Five come up per round.
Which Switzerland location is rated hardest?
Walensee, Titlis and Aletschhorn, plus three more, carry the hard rating, where 451 km of error costs half the score.
Which Switzerland photo forgives the widest miss?
Lake Lucerne. Its radius is 60 km, the widest here; a pin within it takes the full 5,000.