What is the Carcassonne outdoor escape game?
The Carcassonne outdoor escape game is an escape room that leaves the building and heads into town: you play on your phone, and each of the 10 stops holds a puzzle you crack by studying the surroundings and working the logic through. Walking adds up to 64 minutes across 4 km, and the whole game usually fills about 2 hours.
Each puzzle is tied to a site such as Place Carnot, the Pont Vieux or the Narbonne Gate, and each one stands alone, so no storyline links the stops. Stuck? Three tiers of help at most wait behind every puzzle. Carcassonne suits this format well: the game moves between the chequerboard grid of the Bastide and the walled Cité on its hill, so every stop changes how you see the town.
- Durationabout 2 hours
- Walkingabout 64 min · 4 km
- Stops10
- LanguagesEnglish, German, French, Italian, Spanish, Dutch
What you do on the Carcassonne escape game
Solve
Work out the puzzle at every stop from what is in front of you. No prior knowledge of Carcassonne is needed.
Look closer
The clues sit in the details of each site, from façades to the shape of the square and the line of the walls.
Walk
Google Maps guides you between stops: about 64 minutes on foot over roughly 4.0 km.
Take your time
There is no countdown. Use a hint when you need one, stop for a coffee in the Bastide, and come back later or another day.
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How it works
- Book online Choose the number of players. Your booking reference arrives by email straight away.
- Get the app Download the World City Trail app from the App Store or Google Play and enter your booking reference.
- Play when you like Start whenever you are ready, walk at your own pace and pause any time. No guide, no fixed schedule.
Who it suits
Friends
The puzzles give everyone something to debate at the next site, and nobody has to know the town beforehand.
Couples
A shared challenge that keeps you talking as you climb from the Bastide towards the Cité, with no clock ticking.
Team building
Teams of up to 5 play on their own phones, which makes it a practical choice for colleagues.
Good to know
- Bring a charged smartphone with mobile data; a power bank helps.
- Best started in daylight, so you can see the details the puzzles ask about.
- No entry tickets needed: everything happens outside the buildings. Going inside is optional and paid separately.
- Family friendly; children must be accompanied by an adult.
- Not suitable for wheelchair users and difficult with strollers.
- Teams of up to 5 work best; bigger groups split into several teams, one ticket per player.
- Every purchase helps support stray cats and dogs in Greece.
Puzzle route: from Square André Chénier to the Narbonne Gate
10 stops · about 64 min walking · start: Square André Chénier · finish: Porte Narbonnaise
The first puzzle waits at Square André Chénier and the last at the Porte Narbonnaise, with eight sites in between: Place Carnot, the Cathédrale Saint-Michel, the Musée des Beaux-Arts, the Pont Vieux, the Porte de l'Aude, the Basilique Saint-Nazaire, the Château Comtal and the ramparts of the Cité. Daylight makes the best start, since the puzzles are solved outdoors and rain or wind slow everything down. Google Maps guides you between stops, the app lets you reorder them, and the puzzles need no entry tickets.
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1Square André ChénierStart
This tree-lined square in the lower town is named after André Chénier, the French poet who was guillotined in 1794 during the Revolution. It lies close to the Bastide Saint-Louis, the grid-planned new town founded in the 13th century below the medieval hilltop Cité.
2Place Carnot
Place Carnot is the main square of the Bastide Saint-Louis, surrounded by tall townhouses and café terraces. In its centre stands the Fountain of Neptune, an 18th-century marble fountain crowned by a statue of the sea god.
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3Cathédrale Saint-Michel
Saint-Michel was built in the 13th century in the Southern Gothic style, with a single wide nave. It became the cathedral of Carcassonne in 1803, taking over from Saint-Nazaire in the Cité, and look for its large rose window on the façade.
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4Musée des Beaux-Arts
Carcassonne's fine arts museum is run by the city and stands in the Bastide Saint-Louis. Its collection focuses on European painting, especially from the 17th to the 19th century, and the building's street front is worth a close look.
5Pont Vieux
The Old Bridge was built in the 14th century to link the Bastide with the Cité across the river Aude. Its stone arches are now reserved for pedestrians, and from the middle you get one of the classic views of the walled Cité on its hill.
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6Porte de l'Aude
The Aude Gate is the western entrance to the Cité, reached by a steep path climbing up from the river side. It is protected by several successive walls and gateways, so attackers would have been exposed at every turn of the climb.
7Basilique Saint-Nazaire
The basilica inside the Cité combines a Romanesque nave with a Gothic choir and transept added around 1300. It was Carcassonne's cathedral until 1803 and is known for its medieval stained-glass windows, while the outside walls carry gargoyles worth a close look.
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8Château Comtal
The Count's Castle was built in the 12th century by the Trencavel family, viscounts of Carcassonne, and is a fortress within the fortress. It has its own moat, gate and towers, and the wooden galleries on top of its walls are a reconstruction of medieval defences.
9Ramparts of the Cité
The Cité is surrounded by two lines of walls with about 3 kilometres of ramparts and more than 50 towers. Restored from 1853 under the architect Eugène Viollet-le-Duc, the fortified city has been a UNESCO World Heritage Site since 1997.
10Porte NarbonnaiseFinish
The Narbonne Gate is the main entrance to the Cité, flanked by two massive towers on the east side. Next to it is a bust of Dame Carcas, who according to legend ended a long siege by Charlemagne by throwing a well-fed pig over the walls, after which the bells rang out and gave the city its name.
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Spain –
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El juego incluye una ruta por la Cité de Carcassonne pero tambien en gran parte en la zona mas moderna de la ciudad…estaria bien que fuera sólo en la zona del Castillo y alrededores para poder completar el juego mas facilmente
Germany –
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Spain –
Collected on GetYourGuide
Muy recomendable, íbamos con niños y se lo han pasado muy bien. Una forma diferente de conocer las ciudades, se les hace más interesante.
France –
Collected on GetYourGuide
Activité ludique, même pour les adultes !
Isabelle– France –
Collected on GetYourGuide
Tres ludique et approche differente du parcours “classique”
Ana Estopiña– Spain –
Collected on GetYourGuide
Actividad entretenida para hacer toda la familia.
Spain –
Collected on GetYourGuide
Muy entretenido, para ver monumentos que no verías paseando ,si no los encuentras por sorpresa. Repetiremos en otra ciudad.
Yolanda– Spain –
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Ha sido muy entretenida!! Nos gustó mucho!