🇪🇸 Spain · España
Caves, caliphates, conquest and civil war. Spanish scenes reward anyone who can read horseshoe arches, Gothic ribs and twentieth-century concrete.
Spain's collection needs 2 more rounds before it opens. These are live today.
Spain reads through eight centuries of Islamic and Christian overlap, then an empire's worth of stone. Horseshoe arches, brick mudéjar towers and cathedral bulk dropped into a former mosque are all normal in the same city.
Architecture
Horseshoe arches, muqarnas and geometric tilework are al-Andalus, 750–1492. Mudéjar brickwork with blind arcading continues after the conquest. Plateresque stone lacework is 16th century; whitewashed cubic villages are Andalusian vernacular.
Landscape
Ochre plateau with dry-stone terraces and olive rows is the Meseta and Andalusia. Green, wet and hedged means Galicia or Asturias. Ranks of white apartment blocks along a beach are the coast after 1960.
Period tells
Roman aqueducts and theatres mark Hispania. Bullet-scarred facades and rubble are 1936–39. Vast concrete tourist development and SEAT 600s date the Costa scenes to the 1960s.
A starting shortlist, oldest first. Every one of these makes a round that Spaniards can nail and everyone else has to work out.
CantabriaAncient world
Polychrome bison on a cave ceiling, painted using the rock's own bulges for volume.
CórdobaMedieval
A forest of double arches at the heart of Europe's largest city at the time.
Alhambra, GranadaMedieval
The last emirate in Iberia surrendered; Columbus got his commission the same year.
Gernika, BiscayModern era
A market-day air raid that became the twentieth century's most famous anti-war painting.
Montjuïc, BarcelonaModern era
The games that rebuilt a city's waterfront and relaunched Spain's image abroad.
Spanish history touches ancient & classical, medieval & renaissance and the 20th century. Each of those eras has a timed round of its own — the same centuries, but questions drawn from every country in the library, so you find out whether you can date the rest of the period as confidently as you can date Spain.
Ancient & classical
Spanish moment here: Altamira bison painted (14000 BC).
Medieval & Renaissance
Spanish moments here: Great Mosque of Córdoba extended (987), Fall of Granada (1492).
20th century
Spanish moments here: The bombing of Gernika (1937), Barcelona Olympics (1992).
Dates, order and places from the moments above. Answers are printed underneath — cover them with a hand if you want to test yourself, or read them out for a quiz round.
1.Altamira bison painted — what year?
Answer14000 BC
Polychrome bison on a cave ceiling, painted using the rock's own bulges for volume.
2.Great Mosque of Córdoba extended — what year?
Answer987
A forest of double arches at the heart of Europe's largest city at the time.
3.Fall of Granada — what year?
Answer1492
The last emirate in Iberia surrendered; Columbus got his commission the same year.
4.The bombing of Gernika — what year?
Answer1937
A market-day air raid that became the twentieth century's most famous anti-war painting.
5.Barcelona Olympics — what year?
Answer1992
The games that rebuilt a city's waterfront and relaunched Spain's image abroad.
6.Which came first in Spain — Altamira bison painted or Great Mosque of Córdoba extended?
AnswerAltamira bison painted, in 14000 BC.
Great Mosque of Córdoba extended follows in 987, 14987 years later.
7.Which came first in Spain — Fall of Granada or the bombing of Gernika?
AnswerFall of Granada, in 1492.
The bombing of Gernika follows in 1937, 445 years later.
8.Where in Spain would you drop the pin for Altamira bison painted?
AnswerCantabria
Polychrome bison on a cave ceiling, painted using the rock's own bulges for volume.
9.Where in Spain would you drop the pin for Great Mosque of Córdoba extended?
AnswerCórdoba
A forest of double arches at the heart of Europe's largest city at the time.
10.How far apart are the oldest and newest Spanish moments in this collection?
Answer15,992 years
From Altamira bison painted in 14000 BC to Barcelona Olympics in 1992.
You don't need a photograph or a map reference. Name a moment — "Altamira bison painted, Cantabria" — and the builder fills in the year, drops the pin, writes the factoid and paints a 360° scene you can stand inside. Publish it and it joins this collection for everyone.
Step 1
One line is enough — an event, a place, a year you half-remember. Or let the AI draft five moments around a theme.
Step 2
The year, the exact coordinates and a one-sentence factoid come back filled in. Everything stays editable.
Step 3
A 4K 360° panorama of that place in that year, ready to spin around inside the game.
🇪🇸 Put your own scene on /play/spain
Credits cover the AI: 1 to auto-fill a moment, 3 to draft five at once, 25 for each 4K panorama. Your map stays yours — you choose whether it's public, unlisted or private.
Moments Spaniards want to see in the game. Vote them up — the top of this list gets built next.
Each round drops you into a 360° scene from Spain's past. Look around for clues — architecture, clothing, technology, landscape — then place the scene on the world map and pick the year. You score up to 5,000 points a round: closer in distance and closer in time both pay. Five rounds make a game.
No. You can play Spanish rounds straight away with no sign-up. Signing in saves your XP, keeps your character progressing through history, and puts you on the leaderboards.
The collection spans 14000 BC to 1992 — from altamira bison painted through to barcelona olympics. New moments are added as the community suggests them.
Yes, completely free. There is no paywall on rounds, the daily challenge, or the leaderboards.
Yes — that's how the collection grows. Suggest any moment Spaniards would recognise instantly, like altamira bison painted. Approved suggestions get built into playable 360° rounds and credited on the page.
There are currently 1 playable Spanish rounds, shuffled so each game is different. The pool grows every time a community suggestion is built.
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