Sagrada Família cathedral is most popular answer to a 'what to see in Spain' Google search
Tuesday, November 29, 2016 @ 9:43 AM
BARCELONA'S Sagrada Família cathedral is the most-recommended tourist attraction in Spain, according to a new map of Europe, north Africa and the Middle East drawn up by a cartographer on Reddit.
The map, now available on Google, collated the most common answers to the search engine question 'what to see in [country]', and shows each nation with its top monument or feature emblazoned across it.
Although Granada's Alhambra Palace is statistically the most-visited tourist site in Spain, the as-yet unfinished Sagrada Famílía cathedral, a unique piece of highly modern, avant garde architecture created by Antoni Gaudí – who was killed when he was hit by a bus outside his own greatest work, in 1926 – is the one most websites and question-and-answer fora advise visitors to Spain not to miss.
In fact, Barcelona and Granada, along with Madrid, are the areas foreign holidaymakers seeking city breaks rather than beaches and sunshine tend to visit.
Attractions for some other countries are fairly easy to guess – the Eiffel Tower, the Colisseum of Rome, the Acropolis of Athens, the Tower of London, the Kremlin, Neuschwanstein Castle in the Black Forest, Petra in Jordan, the Swiss Alpes and the Hagia Sofia church in Istanbul – but others are less familiar.
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