What is the Metz outdoor escape game?
The Metz outdoor escape game is an escape room played out on the streets: your smartphone takes you from one sight to the next, and each of the 10 stops holds a puzzle that you crack by reading the scene in front of you and reasoning step by step. Allow roughly 2 hours, including 47 minutes of walking over 3.7 km, and pick the day that suits your group.
The puzzles are placed at places such as the Esplanade fountains, the Temple Neuf on its island, Metz Cathedral, Place d'Armes and Place Saint-Louis. Each puzzle is self-contained, so there is no storyline to follow. Three levels of hints are available if you get stuck. Metz has a compact centre where French and German eras sit side by side, which makes it easy to link several puzzles in one walk.
- Durationabout 2 hours
- Walkingabout 47 min · 3.7 km
- Stops10
- LanguagesEnglish, German, French, Italian, Spanish, Dutch
What you do on the escape game
Solve
Work out the puzzle at each stop by observing the place closely and thinking it through. No knowledge of Metz beforehand is required.
Read the scene
The clues are in the details around each landmark, such as façades, fountains and the layout of the square.
Walk
Follow Google Maps from stop to stop: about 47 minutes on foot over roughly 3.7 km.
Take your time
There is no countdown. Ask for a hint when you need it, take a coffee break, and carry on later or on 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
Every puzzle gives the group something to argue about at the next stop, and nobody has to know Metz in advance.
Couples
A shared challenge that keeps you talking as you wander from the Esplanade to the cathedral, with no clock ticking.
Team building
Teams of up to 5 play on their own phones, which keeps the logistics simple 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 the Gare de Metz to the German Gate
10 stops · about 47 min walking · start: Gare de Metz · finish: Porte des Allemands
The first puzzle waits at the Gare de Metz and the last at the German Gate, the fortified bridge over the Seille. In between you pass the Porte Serpenoise, Place de la République, the Esplanade fountains, Temple Neuf, Metz Cathedral, Place d'Armes, Église Notre-Dame and Place Saint-Louis. Start in daylight if you can, because rain or wind slow every stop. Google Maps guides you between puzzles, the app lets you change the order, and no entry tickets are needed.
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1Gare de MetzStart
Metz station was built between 1905 and 1908, when the city belonged to the German Empire, to designs by the architect Jürgen Kröger. Its long neo-Romanesque façade and tall clock tower were meant to impress, and the station was also planned to move troops quickly towards the French border.
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2Porte Serpenoise
The Serpenoise Gate was one of the gates in the medieval walls of Metz, on the old road leading south. Rebuilt in the 19th century, it has stood on its own since the ramparts were pulled down in the early 20th century, between the old town and the German-era Imperial Quarter.
3Place de la République
This wide square is one of the largest open spaces in Metz. It lies where the shopping streets of the old town meet the Esplanade gardens, and it is used for events and seasonal markets.
4Fontaines de l'Esplanade
Fountains and flower beds fill the Esplanade, a terraced garden laid out on the site of the old citadel, with views across the Moselle to Mont Saint-Quentin. A statue of Marshal Ney, one of Napoleon's generals, stands here, close to the Templar chapel and the ancient church of Saint-Pierre-aux-Nonnains.
5Temple Neuf
This Protestant church was built between 1901 and 1905, during the German annexation, in a neo-Romanesque style inspired by the churches of the Rhineland. It stands at the tip of an island in the Moselle, and its grey stone towers are reflected in the river.
6Metz Cathedral
The Cathedral of Saint-Étienne was built in golden Jaumont stone from the 13th to the 16th century, and its nave, about 41 metres high, is one of the tallest in France. It holds one of the largest areas of stained glass in the world, including windows by Marc Chagall, which earned it the nickname Good Lord's Lantern.
7Place d'Armes
The architect Jacques-François Blondel laid out this classical square in the 1760s, facing the side of the cathedral. The town hall stands on one side, and the square was designed to balance civil, military and religious power in one space.
8Église Notre-Dame
The Church of Notre-Dame-de-l'Assomption on Rue de la Chèvre was built by the Jesuits in the 17th and 18th centuries. Behind its sober classical façade lies a richly decorated interior, much of it added in the 19th century.
9Place Saint-Louis
This long square is lined on one side by medieval houses resting on arcades. Under these arches merchants and money changers, many of them from Italy, once set up their tables, and the square was one of the trading centres of medieval Metz.
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10Porte des AllemandsFinish
The German Gate is a fortified bridge over the river Seille, with 13th-century towers on one side and larger 15th-century towers on the other. Its name comes from the hospital of the Teutonic Knights that once stood nearby, and it is one of the most striking remains of the medieval walls of Metz.
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