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Places worth the detour in Catalonia

Detourmap lists 458 places in Catalonia, Spain, across 2 kinds of detour. Best known: Montserrat. 426 rank as little-known. Click any card to open it on the map.

Nature259 Archaeological199
Places
458
Oldest
Roman temple of Vic 400 BC
Little known
426 of 458
Share of Spain
22%

Catalonia 458

The 120 best known of 458. The other 338 are on the map and on the Spain pages.

Elsewhere in Spain

Balearic Islands223 Andalusia183 Galicia180 Aragon146 Valencian Community139 Basque Country115 Canary Islands103 Asturias99 Castile and León99 Navarre60 Extremadura47 Cantabria45

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Questions about this page

What is the best known place worth the detour in Catalonia?

Montserrat. Multi-peaked mountain in Catalonia, Spain. It leads because more Wikipedia language editions cover it than any other place here.

How many places worth the detour are there in Catalonia?

458: 259 nature & landscapes and 199 archaeological & historic sites. 426 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 Catalonia?

Roman temple of Vic, dated to 400 BC. 20 of the 458 places here carry a founding date at all.

What counts as Catalonia here?

Wikidata's own administrative boundary: a place is in Catalonia if its located in the administrative territorial entity chain leads there. Catalonia is a first-level division of Spain, the same level as a state or a province.

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.