What is the Palma outdoor escape game?
The Palma outdoor escape game turns the old town into the escape room: each of the 10 landmarks on the route holds one puzzle, and your phone is the only equipment, along with your eyes and a bit of reasoning. Count on about 2 hours, 38 minutes of which are walking across 3 km, with no fixed starting time to meet.
The puzzles hang on buildings you would want to see anyway: La Seu, the Gothic cathedral above the bay, the arcaded Plaça Major, the Basilica of Sant Francesc with its rose window, the carved Jesuit portal of Montision Church and La Llotja, the 15th-century merchants' exchange. None of them depends on the others, so a puzzle you decide to leave for later costs you nothing, and three levels of hints are there when one proves stubborn.
- Durationabout 2 hours
- Walkingabout 38 min · 3 km
- Stops10
- LanguagesEnglish, German, French, Italian, Spanish, Dutch
What you do on the escape game
Decode
One puzzle per landmark, answered from what stands in front of you plus straightforward logic. No background reading required.
Study the detail
Portals, bell towers, statues and shop-lined arcades hold what you need, not your memory of a history lesson.
Stroll
The walking adds up to 38 minutes and 3 km in total, and Google Maps points the way between landmarks.
Stay unhurried
No timer is running. Take a hint, break for lunch in a side lane and resume the same afternoon 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
Everyone reads the same clue differently, which is most of the fun, and no prior knowledge of Mallorca is needed.
Two of you
A shared puzzle fills the walk between squares better than small talk, and nothing is pushing you along.
Work outings
Up to 5 players per team, each on their own phone, so a department can run several teams over one route.
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 Sóller train station to Sa Feixina Park
10 stops · about 38 min walking · start: Sóller Train Station · finish: Sa Feixina Park
Puzzle one stands beside the vintage carriages at the Sóller Train Station; Plaça d'Espanya with its equestrian statue of King James I comes next, and the lanes then bring you to the arcades of Plaça Major. Santa Eulàlia Church, the Basilica of Sant Francesc and Montision Church each hold one, and the climb up to Palma Cathedral comes after them. Below La Seu, Plaça de la Reina opens the Passeig des Born, La Llotja turns up nearer the harbour, and the closing puzzle lands in Sa Feixina Park, beside the monument to the sailors of the cruiser Baleares. Starting in daylight makes the outdoor details easier to read. Google Maps covers the navigation, the order can be rearranged in the app, and nothing here calls for an entry ticket.
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1Sóller Train StationStart
Palma's terminus of the Ferrocarril de Sóller, a narrow-gauge railway opened in 1912, stands on Plaça d'Espanya. Its vintage wooden carriages still run through the Serra de Tramuntana mountains to the town of Sóller. The line was built to connect Sóller, long cut off from the capital by the mountains, with Palma.
2Plaça d'Espanya
Plaça d'Espanya is Palma's main transport hub, where trains and buses arrive at the edge of the old town. In its gardens stands an equestrian statue of King James I of Aragon, who conquered Mallorca from the Moors in 1229. The square lies just outside the line of the old city walls, most of which were pulled down in the early 20th century.
3Plaça Major
Plaça Major is a rectangular square enclosed by uniform arcaded houses, laid out in the 19th century on the site of the former headquarters of the Inquisition. Its ochre façades and green shutters are typical of old Palma. Carrer de Sant Miquel, one of the old town's main shopping streets, leads off from here.
4Santa Eulàlia Church
The Church of Santa Eulàlia was one of the first parish churches built after the Christian conquest of 1229, and its Gothic nave dates largely from the late Middle Ages. The neo-Gothic façade and tall bell tower were added in the 19th century. Look up at the narrow façade rising above the small square in front of it.
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5Basilica of Sant Francesc
This basilica belonged to a Franciscan friary founded soon after the Christian conquest, and its Gothic church was begun in the late 13th century. Its plain façade has a huge rose window above a richly carved baroque portal added in the 17th century. The medieval philosopher Ramon Llull is buried inside, and a statue of the missionary Junípero Serra stands in front.
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6Montision Church
The Church of Montision was built by the Jesuits from the late 16th century in the old Jewish quarter of Palma, known as the Call. Its baroque portal, crowded with carved figures and ornament, is one of the most elaborate in the city. According to tradition, the church stands on the site of a former synagogue.
7Palma Cathedral (La Seu)
Palma's Gothic cathedral, La Seu, was begun after King James I conquered Mallorca in 1229, on the site of the city's main mosque, and was only completed in the early 17th century. Its great rose window is one of the largest in Gothic architecture. In the early 20th century Antoni Gaudí redesigned parts of the interior.
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8Plaça de la Reina
This small square, whose name means Queen's Square, marks the lower end of the Passeig des Born, Palma's tree-lined promenade. It sits at the foot of the Almudaina Palace and the cathedral. From here the stepped lane Costa de la Seu climbs up towards the cathedral.
9La Llotja
La Llotja was Palma's merchants' exchange, built in the 15th century by the Mallorcan architect Guillem Sagrera. Its corner turrets and battlements make it look like a small castle, while inside slender spiral columns rise like palm trees. Above the main door an angel watches over the building.
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10Sa Feixina ParkFinish
Sa Feixina is a green park just west of the old town, beside the Santa Catalina district and close to the seafront. In the middle rises a tall monument to the sailors of the cruiser Baleares, sunk in 1938 during the Spanish Civil War, whose future has long been debated in Palma.
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