OK, so, Spain.  Selected highlights from UNESCO include:

• Cave of Altamira. Upper Paleolithic cave paintings.  Well preserved.  Mapped. Removed: Northwest.
• Aqueduct of Segovia. Best-preserved Roman aquaduct on the Iberian peninsula. Mapped. And removed.
• Asturian architecture unique to the Christian rump pf Spain in the 9th century. Oveido. Mapped. Removed: North-west.
• Cordoba originally Carthaginian, historical centre has passed from Moorish to Catholic to Islamic to RC… architecture comparable to Constantinople and Baghdad. Mapped.
•  Gaudi’s works in Barcelona.  Mapped.
• Old Town of Avila, Castille and Leon.  Best example of 11th century walls in Spain.  Mapped. Removed, northwest. Also, I don’t care about 11th century walls.
• Mixed Islanic and European styles of houses of worship in Aragon, esp Teruel.  Mapped. Removed because blah.
• Toledo, in Castille-La Mancha – founded by Romans, capital of the Visigothic kingdom, and briefly capital of Spain.  Mapped. Gotta See. notwithstanding the relationship to a famous knight of La Mancha. Tricky though, it’s out of the way.
• Alcala de Henares, Madrid. First university city, and birthplace of Miguel de Cervantes. Mapped – but I’ve been to Madrid.
• Roman walls of Lugo – best preserved in Europe.  Mapped. REMOVED – North-west.
• Tower of Hercules, A Coruna. Only  fully preserved and functioning Roman lighthouse. Mapped. Removed, northwest.
• Salamanca, important in Carthaginian history. Mapped.  Sadly, removed.  Won’t work on the trip.
• The Cathedral of Seville. Mapped
• Roman influences, aquaduct and ruins in Merida. Mapped. Removed, it’s a western outlier.
• La Lonja de la Seda de Valencia. Mapped.

I’ve noted from wikipedia the stuff I found most interesting, then removed anything which didn’t fit with the geography of the trip.  It’s not that northwest Spain isn’t beautiful and fascinating; but if I spend a month in Spain I’ll never get started.

Okay, so the Spanish route is looking like…

• Seville
• Corboda
• Granada
• Almeria
• Valencia
• Barcelona

Which means that onto my list of Things I’d Have Loved To Have Seen But Didn’t Have Time goes Toledo, which really is a shame but six cities per country is too many already.  I could miss out Almeria but it’s rather impressive and I’ve never seen the Spanish coast. Okay, good start!!