Detourmap
Places worth the detour in Spain
Detourmap lists 2,102 places in Spain, across 2 kinds of detour; nature & landscapes are the largest group (1,186). Best known: Tenerife. 1,831 rank as little-known. Click any card to open it on the map.
- Places
- 2,102
- Oldest here
- Arlanpe 115,000 years ago
- Little known
- 1,831 of 2,102
- City pages
- 23
By region
15 first-level divisions of Spain have enough places for a page of their own.
By city
23 cities in Spain have enough places for a page of their own.
Nature & landscapes in Spain 1,186
Archaeological & historic sites in Spain 916
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1.Tenerife airport disaster
Archaeological · 20th century · Renowned
Runway collision at Los Rodeos Airport, Tenerife, 1977-03-27
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3.Madinat Al-Zahra
Archaeological · 10th century · Renowned
Archeological site of Moorish palace in Spain
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5.Tartessos
Archaeological · Renowned
Semi-mythical harbor city and the surrounding culture on the south coast of the Iberian Peninsula
Questions about this page
What is the best known place worth the detour in Spain?
Tenerife. One of the main islands of the Canary archipelago. It leads because more Wikipedia language editions cover it than any other place here.
How many places worth the detour are there in Spain?
2,102: 1,186 nature & landscapes and 916 archaeological & historic sites. 1,831 of them are little known — they carry a Wikipedia article in only a handful of languages.
What is the oldest place on this map in Spain?
Arlanpe, dated to 115,000 years ago. 216 of the 2,102 places here carry a founding date at all, and 33 of those predate the year 1000.
Where does this information come from?
Every place is drawn from Wikidata (CC0), with photographs from Wikimedia Commons and a link to its English Wikipedia article. Selection is deterministic: a place is here because Wikidata files it under one of the classes this atlas carries and it has coordinates, a photo and an article. Nothing is written or chosen by an AI, and the ranking is simply how many Wikipedia language editions cover a place.