# What city is this?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-city-is-this/700232>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [October 3, 2014, 2:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-city-is-this/700232 "2014-10-03T02:16:38Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 7\
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**Author:** ![beowulff](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beowulff/32/542_2.png) [@beowulff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/beowulff)\
**Post date:** [October 3, 2014, 2:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-city-is-this/700232/1 "2014-10-03T02:16:38Z")

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From a United Airlines ad.

Photo [here](https://www.flickr.com/photos/11822576@N08/15421368661/).

(Sorry for the poor quality photo)

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**Author:** ![Tapioca\_Dextrin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Tapioca\_Dextrin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tapioca_Dextrin)\
**Post date:** [October 3, 2014, 2:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-city-is-this/700232/2 "2014-10-03T02:34:27Z")

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It’s one that needs you to sign into Flickr

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**Author:** ![pulykamell](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pulykamell/32/3166_2.png) [@pulykamell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pulykamell)\
**Post date:** [October 3, 2014, 2:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-city-is-this/700232/3 "2014-10-03T02:39:21Z")

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> [@Tapioca\_Dextrin](#):
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> It’s one that needs you to sign into Flickr

Works for me, and I’m not signed in. I dunno. I thought at first maybe Munich, but that’s not it. Looks very Middle Europe to me. Austria, Southern Germany, thereabouts. But I’m not hitting anything looking around there, so maybe I’m way off.

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**Author:** ![Tapioca\_Dextrin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Tapioca\_Dextrin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tapioca_Dextrin)\
**Post date:** [October 3, 2014, 2:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-city-is-this/700232/4 "2014-10-03T02:43:54Z")

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Oh, and I think it’s [Madrid](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plaza_Mayor,_Madrid#mediaviewer/File:Plaza_Mayor_de_Madrid_06.jpg) 🙂

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**Author:** ![Siam\_Sam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\
**Post date:** [October 3, 2014, 2:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-city-is-this/700232/5 "2014-10-03T02:45:53Z")

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The square sort of reminds me of Brussels, but that’s just a guess.

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**Author:** ![beowulff](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beowulff/32/542_2.png) [@beowulff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/beowulff)\
**Post date:** [October 3, 2014, 3:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-city-is-this/700232/6 "2014-10-03T03:11:53Z")

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> [@Tapioca\_Dextrin](#):
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> Oh, and I think it’s [Madrid](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plaza_Mayor,_Madrid#mediaviewer/File:Plaza_Mayor_de_Madrid_06.jpg) 🙂

Yes, it’s Madrid.  
I found another aerial photo that confirms it.

Thanks for the tip.

The funny thing was - that was my first guess, even though I didn’t know what the city looked like. Something about the tile roofs and layout just said “Spain.”

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**Author:** ![gazpacho](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/6f9a4e/32.png) [@gazpacho](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gazpacho)\
**Post date:** [October 3, 2014, 5:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-city-is-this/700232/7 "2014-10-03T17:44:46Z")

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> [@Tapioca\_Dextrin](#):
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> It’s one that needs you to sign into Flickr

I think if you try the link again it will work. Every so often I clean out built up cookies in my browser and the first click on a flicker link takes me to the home page. Subsequent clicks go through fine.