What is the Prague scavenger hunt?
The Prague scavenger hunt is a self-guided city game you play on your phone: you walk from landmark to landmark, solve a riddle at each one by looking closely at what is in front of you, and unlock the stories and legends behind it. It takes about 2 hours, with around 53 minutes of actual walking over 4.6 km with 10 stops, and you start whenever you like.
Highlights include the Municipal House, the Týn Church and the Astronomical Clock on Old Town Square, the Spanish Synagogue, Charles Bridge and St Vitus Cathedral at Prague Castle. The route links the Old Town with Malá Strana across the Vltava, and the climb to the castle gives you views over the rooftops of the city.
- Durationabout 2 hours
- Walkingabout 53 min · 4.6 km
- Stops10
- LanguagesEnglish, German, French, Italian, Spanish, Dutch, Czech
How the hunt plays from the New Town up to the castle
One riddle, one landmark
Every one of the 10 stops holds a riddle whose answer is visible from where you stand: a bell, a tower, a figure in a window, a date carved into a plinth. No background in Czech history is expected of anybody.
Legends behind the answer
Once solved, the stop tells its stories: the clockmaker Hanuš, blinded according to legend so that he could never build a second astronomical clock, the gilded Hussite chalice melted down in 1626 for a halo on the Týn Church, Tycho Brahe lying in the same church. A voice in the app can take over the reading at any stop.
Old Town, river, castle hill
Google Maps carries you over 4.6 km with 53 minutes of walking, from Henry's Tower through the Old Town, across Charles Bridge into Malá Strana and up to Prague Castle. Only that last stretch climbs, and the view back over the rooftops pays for it.
No clock on the game
The hunt pauses as long as you want it to. Stop for a beer on the way up, come back to the last stops in the evening or the next morning, and let the app put the stops in the order your day needs.
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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 the Prague hunt is made for
A first visit to Prague
The Old Town Square, the Jewish Town, Charles Bridge and the castle arrive in a sensible order instead of as a scramble between crowds. In 2 hours you have the shape of the city and know which bridge tower belongs to which century.
A team with children in it
The clock puts on its procession of Apostles every hour, Charles Bridge carries thirty statues to count, and the first stone is said to have been laid at 5:31 on 9 July 1357 because the figures read the same backwards. An adult has to be in the team.
Colleagues on a day out
Five players to a team, each with the riddle on their own phone, lets a department set off in waves and compare answers in front of St Vitus Cathedral. Beyond the tickets nothing needs reserving, since all ten riddles stand in open streets and squares.
Good to know
- Bring a charged smartphone with mobile data; a power bank helps.
- 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.
The route: Henry's Tower, Old Town Square, Charles Bridge, Prague Castle
10 stops · about 53 min walking · start: Henry's Tower (Jindřišská věž) · finish: St Vitus Cathedral
The hunt starts at Henry's Tower in the New Town and heads past the Municipal House into the Old Town, to the Týn Church, the Spanish Synagogue, St Nicholas Church and the Astronomical Clock. At the Charles IV Monument you cross Charles Bridge into Malá Strana, pass the Holy Trinity Column and climb up to Prague Castle to finish at St Vitus Cathedral. All ten riddles are read off the outside of these buildings, so the hunt costs nothing in entry tickets, and the app will set a different first stop and a different order for anyone sleeping in Malá Strana rather than the New Town.
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1Henry's Tower (Jindřišská věž)Start
Henry's Tower is the free-standing belfry of the Church of St Henry and St Kunhuta in Prague's New Town, about 66 metres tall. The stone tower was built in the late 16th century and got its neo-Gothic look in a rebuilding of 1876–1880, and its oldest surviving bell, Maria, was cast in 1518.
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2Municipal House (Obecní dům)
The Municipal House was built from 1905 and opened in 1912 to designs by Osvald Polívka and Antonín Balšánek, on the site of a medieval royal palace next to the Powder Gate. Above the entrance is Karel Špillar's mosaic Homage to Prague, and in 1918 the building saw the declaration of Czechoslovak independence.
3Church of Our Lady before Týn
The Gothic Týn Church rises behind the houses of Old Town Square, with two towers about 80 metres high; the south tower was finished in 1511. The astronomer Tycho Brahe is buried inside, and the golden Hussite chalice that once crowned the gable was melted down in 1626 for the halo of a statue of the Virgin Mary.
4Spanish Synagogue
The Spanish Synagogue was completed in 1868 in the Moorish Revival style, on the site of what was probably the oldest synagogue in Prague's Jewish Town. Today it is part of the Jewish Museum in Prague, and beside it stands Jaroslav Róna's modern statue of Franz Kafka.
5St Nicholas Church (Old Town)
This Baroque church on Old Town Square was designed by Kilian Ignaz Dientzenhofer for the Benedictines and built in 1732–1737. Its white façade with statues by Antonín Braun only became visible from the square after a house in front of it was demolished in 1902, and today it belongs to the Czechoslovak Hussite Church.
6Astronomical Clock
The astronomical clock on the Old Town Hall dates from 1410 and was made by the clockmaker Mikuláš of Kadaň and the astronomer Jan Šindel. Every hour figures of the Apostles appear in the windows above the dials, and according to legend the clockmaker Hanuš was blinded so that he could never build another one.
7Charles IV Monument
This statue of Charles IV, Holy Roman Emperor and King of Bohemia, stands on Křižovnické náměstí at the Old Town end of Charles Bridge. The Dresden sculptor Ernst Julius Hähnel made it, and it was unveiled in 1848 for the 500th anniversary of Charles University, which Charles founded in 1348.
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8Charles Bridge
Charles IV had the stone bridge begun in 1357 to designs by Peter Parler, and according to tradition the first stone was laid at 5:31 on 9 July 1357, so that the date and time read the same backwards. The bridge is about 516 metres long and lined with 30 statues and sculpture groups, among them Saint John of Nepomuk.
9Holy Trinity Column
This Baroque plague column on Malá Strana Square was completed in 1715 to mark the end of the plague epidemic that struck Prague in 1713. It was designed by the architect Giovanni Battista Alliprandi, with sculptures by Jan Oldřich Mayer and Ferdinand Geiger.
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10St Vitus CathedralFinish
Work on the Gothic cathedral inside Prague Castle began in 1344 under Matthias of Arras, Peter Parler took over after his death, and the building was only completed in 1929. It holds the relics of Saint Wenceslas and the tombs of many Bohemian kings, and the Art Nouveau painter Alfons Mucha designed one of its stained-glass windows.
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fun. helpful and interesting information in the stories, amusing puzzles.
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Une bonne façon ludique de découvrir Palerme avec une adolescente. Nous avions déjà utilisé ce format à Lille et Gand , donc nous sommes Habituées au format des questions’, mais nous apprécions toujours le fait de pouvoir prendre notre temps, de découvrir des lieux où nous ne serions pas allées sinon . Nous avons donc mis 3h15 pour découvrir l’ensemble des lieux mais en mode piano piano …
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très joli tour dans Porto, nous l’avons fait en arrivant ce qui nous a permis d’identifier ce que nous voulions visiter
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Énigme assez sympas et facile. bon moment
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Wir haben eine Stadt näher kennengelernt, in der die Sehenswürdigkeiten nicht alle in unmittelbarer Nähe liegen. In die Fragestellung der Rätsel musste ich mich zunächst hineindenken. Es wäre hilfreich, wenn die Aufgabenstellung präziser beschrieben wäre. Sehr schön war die eigene Zeitgestaltung inkl. der Möglichkeit, früher auszusteigen und trotzdem alle Texte lesen zu können.
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Guter gruppendynamischer Einstieg in den Städtetripp, gut fanden wir, dass man auch jederzeit pausieren konnte.
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Es hat Riesen viel Spaß gemacht. Können wir nur empfehlen 😃
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Bonne idée de découvrir la ville et ses principaux monuments à l aide de cette visite guidée.
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Podría ser con sonido las explicaciones, para niños que leen despacio ó no saben leer.
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Vertaling naar Nederlands was matig
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Wonderful
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Tres bonne activité pour découvrir Corfou. La seule chose est que nous n’avions pas beaucoup de réseau internet. Mais très bonne activité.
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Cela permet, le premier, de se familiariser avec la ville ! C’est parfait ! Peut-être l’étendre sur l’autre rive ?
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It is a fantastic way for people to discover all the significant and some lesser known places in the city. It gives a great sense of the geography of the city and not only has interesting facts about the attractions It takes you to, but lots of facts about other places of in-between which was a lovely touch. And the puzzles are solvable but not too easy and force you to really take in the scenery and detail of the fascinating places you go to. My only criticism would be it recommended the first stop according to where it thought we were and that was the easiest route for us, which it wasn’t so before you get going look up some of the locations and figure out which would actually be closest. Overall it was a really fun and engaging way to discover the city and some of its history in a few hours. And allows you to go shopping or buy some desserts along the way!
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Es war trotz eines regnerischen Tages eine wunderschöne Führung mit einem sehr netten Fremdenführer, der uns die Stadt Brügge lieben und schätzen gelernt hat. Vielen Dank dafür.
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Die wichtigsten Sehenswürdigkeiten auf einer erträglich langen Route. Wir haben die Tour am Dom pausiert, um uns diesen samt Museum genauer anzuschauen.
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Abwechslungsreich, gute Route, nette Rätsel Aber: für Schüler*innen z.T. zu anspruchsvoll
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Activité très sympa pour découvrir Syracuse en famille de façon ludique.
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Leuke manier om de stad voor een klein deel te zien
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What a fantastic way to explore the city! I loved the way that you could dip in and out, and the facts were so interesting. Gave me lots of inspiration for places to visit during my stay too.
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App gebruikt als routeplanner en om achtergrondinfo te lezen.
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Il n emanque qu un passage dans les rue piétonnes pour que le tour soit complet.
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