What is the Český Krumlov outdoor escape game?
The Český Krumlov outdoor escape game moves the escape room out of its four walls and into a town in southern Bohemia: you play on your smartphone, and each of the 10 spots hides a puzzle that you crack through close observation and logic. Count on about 2 hours, with 25 minutes of walking over 2.0 km, and start on a day that works for you.
Puzzles sit at the Castle Tower, the Cloak Bridge, St Vitus Church, the plague column on the main square and the Schiele art centre. Each puzzle is independent, so no storyline is needed, and three levels of hints are on hand. The historic centre sits in a tight bend of the river, so the spots stay close together, though the castle end involves some climbing.
- Durationabout 2 hours
- Walkingabout 25 min · 2 km
- Stops10
- LanguagesEnglish, German, French, Italian, Spanish, Dutch
What you do on the escape game
Solve
Work out the puzzle at each spot from what is in front of you. No prior knowledge of the town is required.
Look up
The clues sit in painted façades, the stonework of the bridges and the layout of the squares, so keep your eyes raised.
Walk
Follow Google Maps between spots: about 25 minutes of walking across 2.0 km, with a climb up to the castle.
Take your time
No countdown runs. Use hints when you need them, sit with a coffee on the square and carry on 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 on a day out
Every spot brings a new puzzle to argue over, and nobody has to know the town beforehand.
Couples
A shared challenge that has you spotting details together as you cross the river and climb back up, with no clock in sight.
Team building
Teams of up to 5 play on their own phones, so colleagues can split the puzzles or work them out side by side.
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 the Monasteries to the castle
10 stops · about 25 min walking · start: Monasteries (Kláštery) · finish: Český Krumlov Castle
Your first puzzle is set beside the Latrán monasteries, and the closing one at the castle itself. Between them come a stop at the Castle Tower, a crossing of the wooden Barber's Bridge, then St Vitus Church, the square with its plague column, the Wax Museum, the Schiele centre, the Cloak Bridge and the castle garden. Keep to daylight for the outdoor puzzles, let Google Maps handle the walking, and reorder the spots in the app if you prefer. No entry tickets are needed.
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1Monasteries (Kláštery)Start
The Monasteries of Český Krumlov in the Latrán district were founded in the mid-14th century by the Rosenberg family as a double convent for Minorite friars and Poor Clare nuns, a rare arrangement in Central Europe. After a long restoration the complex reopened as a cultural centre around its Gothic cloisters.
2Castle Tower
The round Castle Tower rises above the town on the castle rock and is one of the symbols of Český Krumlov. Gothic in origin, it received its painted Renaissance decoration and arcaded gallery in the late 16th century, and from the top you look over red roofs and the bend of the Vltava.
3Barber's Bridge (Lazebnický most)
This wooden bridge over the Vltava links the Latrán district with the inner town and is named after a barber's bathhouse that stood at its end. Statues of St John of Nepomuk and of Christ on the cross stand on it. It is linked to the story of Julius d'Austria, illegitimate son of Emperor Rudolf II, who lived in the castle and murdered a barber's daughter in 1608.
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4Church of St Vitus
The Church of St Vitus is the town's late-Gothic parish church, built in the first half of the 15th century on the slope above the river. Its slender tower, seen from all over town, forms the classic view of Český Krumlov together with the Castle Tower.
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5Fountain and Plague Column
On the main square, Náměstí Svornosti, stands a Baroque plague column from the early 18th century, raised in thanks for the end of a plague epidemic and crowned by a statue of the Virgin Mary. Beside it is the town fountain, and the square is lined with old burghers' houses and the Town Hall.
6Wax Museum
The Wax Museum occupies an old townhouse in the historic centre. Its wax figures show people from Czech history and from the town's past in recreated period settings, so you meet the characters of the stories you hear on the route.
7Egon Schiele Art Centrum
This art centre fills a former Renaissance town brewery and is devoted to the Austrian painter Egon Schiele and to modern art. Schiele's mother came from Český Krumlov, and in 1911 he lived here with his model Wally Neuzil until the townspeople's disapproval of his lifestyle drove him away.
8Cloak Bridge (Plášťový most)
The Cloak Bridge is a covered bridge on three levels of arches spanning a deep ravine inside the castle complex. It links the castle with the castle theatre and the garden, and its present form dates from the 18th century, with Baroque statues of saints on its lower level.
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9Castle Garden
The large castle garden, Zámecká zahrada, stretches over the hill behind the castle and was laid out mainly in the 17th and 18th centuries. It holds the Bellarie summer house, the Baroque Cascade Fountain and an open-air theatre with a revolving auditorium.
10Český Krumlov CastleFinish
Founded shortly before 1250, the castle grew under the Rosenbergs, Eggenbergs and Schwarzenbergs into one of the largest castle complexes in Central Europe, with about forty buildings around five courtyards. Look for the bears in the moat, a tradition linked to the Rosenbergs' claimed kinship with the Italian Orsini family. Its Baroque theatre, built in 1680–1682, still survives.
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