Detourmap
Macabre sites in Spain
Spain has 53 macabre sites on Detourmap — catacombs, ossuaries, burial grounds and the sites of disasters. The best known is Tenerife airport disaster. All of them are below.
- Macabre sites
- 53
- Of archaeological
- 53 of 916
- Little known
- 43 of 53
- Oldest
- Roza das Modias 2499 BC
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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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4.Iberia Airlines Flight 610
Archaeological · 20th century · Notable
Plane crash on 19 February 1985
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5.Spantax Flight 995
Archaeological · 20th century · Notable
Spantax 995 flight that crashed during the takeoff at Malaga's Airport
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10.Spantax Flight 275
Archaeological · 20th century · Notable
Plane which crashed while taking off, on December 3, 1972
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14.Phoenician shipwrecks of Mazarrón
Archaeological · 7th century BC · Hidden gem
Seventh century BC Phoenician shipwreck near the coast of Spain
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18.Sant Sebastià del Sull
Archaeological · 9th century · Hidden gem
Ruined Benedictine monastery in Saldes, Berguedà comarca, Catalonia, Spain
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20.Via sepulcral Romana de la plaça de la Vila de Madrid
Archaeological · Hidden gem
Cultural property in Barcelona, Spain
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28.Riotinto-Nerva mining basin
Archaeological · 19th century · Hidden gem
Cultural property in Nerva y El Campillo, Spain
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29.1959 Transair Douglas Dakota accident
Archaeological · 20th century · Hidden gem
1959 aviation accident
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30.Church of Saint Fructuosus d'Aramunt
Archaeological · Hidden gem
Church building in Conca de Dalt, Spain
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32.Jaciment de Can Modolell
Archaeological · Hidden gem
Archaeological site in Cabrera de Mar, Spain
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39.Sant Salvador de Balaguer
Archaeological · 12th century · Hidden gem
Church building in Balaguer, Spain
Questions about this page
How many macabre sites are there in Spain?
53 on this map, out of 916 archaeological & historic sites in Spain. That is what Wikidata records with coordinates, a photograph and a Wikipedia article, so it is a floor rather than a census.
What is the best known macabre site in Spain?
Tenerife airport disaster. Runway collision at Los Rodeos Airport, Tenerife, 1977-03-27.
Which macabre sites in Spain are the least visited?
43 of the 53 rank as little known — a Wikipedia article in only a handful of languages. They sit at the bottom of the ranked list below.
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.
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