85 - El Minya, Egypt

150mi. upstream from Cairo. The Codex Tchacos, including the recently famous Gospel of Judas, was found by a "treasure-hunter" near El-Minya in the 1970s.

84 - Dhokós, Greece

On the island of Évvoia, near the straits city of Khalkis.

83 - Çorovodë, Albania

On the Osumi river.

Çorovodë, also written as Çorovoda is the main city of Skrapar, Albania with a population of around 7,000. The city name Çorovoda comes from the Bulgarian: Черна вода (Cherna voda) and means "black water". The Çorovoda river passes through the city and it is also home to a canyon, known as "Pirogosh". Allegedly, two kings, Piro and Goshi, named the cavern.
Osumi river passes through the city too and forms wonderful canyons and caves which are the highest and the longest in Abania. Çorovoda offers many other attractions to everyone who would like to spend some unforgettable holidays. Çorovoda is only 3 hours away from Tirana (the capital).
Some archaeologists believe Çorovoda might be the oldest city in Albania. They have found ruins of some churches and a buried castle in Rovica which might be more ancient than the castle of Berat.

81 - Békéscsaba, Hungary

100mi SE of Budapest. Here's video of a local library!

81 - Asinara, Italy

Island-cum-national park off the NW coast of Sardinia.

80 - Zagarolo, Italy

20mi. E of Rome. This flying-saucer-shaped house is apparently at the south end of town.

79 - Yugoslavia

Despote the name, not a country you think of as having many or any Y placenames.

78 - Xewkija, Gozo, Malta

S central town on the island.

The word Xewkija is derived from Arabic and shows that there had been vast fields full of thorns in the past. Xewkija is famous/very well known for its majestic church, The Rotunda, which is dedicated to St. John The Baptist. It replaced an older church. This church is the Seat of the Knights of the Order of St. John. It was built from Maltese stone by local masons and craftsmen. It is the largest in Gozo and its dome dominates the village.

77 - Windmill Hill Flats, Gibraltar

Near the S tip of the peninsula.

At Windmill Hill Flats we find a rather hostile environment: a flat, wind-lashed terrain, with thin, poor stony soil. Despite all this, Windmill Hill is a treasure-house of plant species. In Spring it is a riot of colour, albeit for a brief period. Here we find a number of species which are not found elsewhere on the Rock, including Crocus serotinus salzmannii (Southern Autumn Crocus); Salvia verbenaca (Wild Clary); Echium parviflorum (Small-flowered Bugloss); Plantago serraria (Saw-toothed Plantain); Hedysarum coronarium (Italian Sainfoin); Mantisalca salmantica; Minuartia geniculata (Pink Sandwort); Tetragonolobus purpureus (Winged Asparagus Pea); Lathyrus annuus (Annual Yellow Vetchling). Other important plants found here better than anywhere else on the Rock are Ornithogalum orthophyllum (Star of Bethlehem); Romulea clusiana (Romulea); Gynandriris sisyrinchium (Barbary Nut); Borago officinalis (Borage); Ecballium elaterium (Squirting Cucumber); Echium plantagineum (Purple Viper's Bugloss).

76 - Vila do Bispo, Portugal

On the Cabo de São Vicente peninsula, on the SW corner of the country.

75 - Uncastillo, Spain

In Aragon/Zaragosa, between Pamplona and Huesca. I like how the satellite view of the region looks like a polished slice of especially lively marble.

74 - Talavera de la Reina, Spain

On the river Tajo, W of Toledo.

internationally known for its ceramics, which Phillip II of Spain used as tiled revetments in many of his works, such as the monastery of El Escorial. The nickname of Talavera de la Reina is 'The City of Pottery' (La Ciudad de la Cerámica, in Spanish).

73 - St. Louis, Senegal

Northern coastal city.

Saint-Louis was established in 1659 by French traders on an uninhabited island called Ndar. It was baptized Saint-Louis-du-Fort in homage to the French king Louis XIV. It was the first permanent French settlement in Senegal. The fortified factory commanded trade along the Senegal River. Slaves, hides, beeswax, ambergris and, later, gum arabic were exported. In the late 18th century, Saint Louis had about 5,000 inhabitants, not counting an indeterminate number of slaves in transit. "Saint-Louis became the leading urban centre in sub-Saharan Africa”.

72 - Rochechouart, France

25mi. W of Limoges.

Two hundred million years ago it was the site of impact of one of the largest meteorites ever to hit earth, a monster 1.5km in diameter and some 6000 million tonnes in weight. The traces of this cosmic calamity still attract the curiosity of astronomers, though the only evidence that a layman might notice is the unusual-looking breccia stone many of the region's older buildings are made of: the squashed, shattered, heat-transformed and reconstituted result of the collision

71 - Queyras, France

In the Alpes Cottoennes; the region nearest to Turin in Italy. Here's a video of some hiking in the region.

70 - Pluvigner, France

In south central Brittany.

Through Brittany. South Brittany By Katharine Sarah Macquoid

69 - Oisemont, France

In Picardie, midway between Amiens and the English Channel. Here's a jazzy local supermarket:

68 - Nogent-sur-Marne, France

Suburb of Paris, just E of the Bois de Vincennes. Home to this handsome viaduct:

67 - Muro, Corsica, France

In the hills E of Calvi.

66 - Leuk, Switzerland

50mi. up the Rhone from Lake Geneva.

65 - Kufstein, Austria

45mi. SE of Munich. Like, I guess, many Tyrolian towns, they have a very nice cow parade:

64 - Jáchymov, Czech Republic

Just S of the German border. As Jachmenstal, a spa-town of the Austrian Empire.

At the beginning of the 20th century, Marie Curie discovered, in tons of pitchblende ore containing uraninite from Joachimsthal, the element radium, for which she won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry. Until the First World War this was the only known source of uranium in the world.

63 - Immenhausen, Germany

5mi. N of Kassel. Home to, apparently, a glass museum.

62 - Halberstadt, Germany

Between Magdeburg and Hannover.

61 - Ghent, Belgium

Midway twist Brugge and Brussels.

60 - Franeker, Netherlands

In Friesland, NE of the Zuider Zee. Great colors in the tidal shadows inside the Friesien Islands.

Famous People from Franeker

Eise Eisinga
François Hemsterhuis
Jan Hendrik Oort
Anna Maria van Schurman

59 - Errill, Ireland

In the SW corner of County Laois. I like the patches of orange in the satellite image of Ireland -- how like the flag!

58 - Dingwall, Scotland, UK

15mi. NW of Inverness. The birthplace of Macbeth, and current home of the northernmost full-time football squad in the UK.

57 - Colne, Lancashire, England, UK

25mi N of Manchester. The River Colme at Linthwaite:

56 - Bristol, England, UK

Near the mouth of the River Avon. While I knew that Bristol was home of the "Bristol Sound", aka trip-hop etc., I hadn't realized that seminal trip-hop group Portishead was named for a nearby riverine suburb.

55 - Acton, London, England, UK

W of Wormwood Scrubs.

The Monty Python sketch 'Bicycle Repair Man' was shot on Churchfield Road, Acton.