What is the Salzburg outdoor escape game?
The Salzburg outdoor escape game turns the Baroque old town into the escape room: the puzzles live on your smartphone, and at each of the 10 stops you reach the answer by studying the place and reasoning it out. Figure on roughly 2 hours, with 31 minutes of walking on a route of only 2.5 km.
Puzzles are set at Mozart's Birthplace on Getreidegasse, the Mozart Residence on Makartplatz, the Pferdeschwemme horse pond, Residenzplatz with its Baroque fountain and St Peter's Abbey, and each puzzle is independent, so no storyline has to be followed. Each puzzle carries clues on three levels at the outside, handed over one step at a time. Salzburg is a good fit because the old town is squeezed between the Salzach and the Mönchsberg, which keeps the distances tiny.
- Durationabout 2 hours
- Walkingabout 31 min · 2.5 km
- Stops10
- LanguagesEnglish, German, French, Italian, Spanish, Dutch, Chinese
What you do on the escape game
Solve
At each stop one puzzle, cracked by observing what is there and thinking clearly. No prior knowledge is needed.
Look closely
Coats of arms, dates on doors, fountain figures and painted walls hold the clues, so give each place a proper look.
Walk
Google Maps points the way to the next puzzle: 31 minutes of walking over 2.5 km.
Go at your pace
No countdown is running. Take a hint, stop for a coffee or a Salzburger Nockerl, and pick the game up 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
A short route with a lot to argue about, and nobody has to have read anything about Salzburg beforehand.
Couples
Ten puzzles for two, a footbridge full of love locks and a finish on the castle hill, at your own speed.
Team building
Teams of up to 5 play on their own phones, so a short route still works for a whole group of 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 Andräkirche to Hohensalzburg Fortress
10 stops · about 31 min walking · start: St Andrew's Church (Andräkirche) · finish: Hohensalzburg Fortress
The game opens at St Andrew's Church on Mirabellplatz and ends at Hohensalzburg Fortress above the old town. In between you puzzle at the Mozart Residence, cross the Salzach on the Marko-Feingold-Steg, and work through the Pferdeschwemme, Mozart's Birthplace, Residenzplatz, Salzburg Cathedral, St Peter's Abbey and the Kapitelschwemme on Kapitelplatz. Set out in daylight, since the puzzles are solved outdoors and rain on the cobbles slows everything. Google Maps handles the navigation, the stops can be reordered in the app, and no puzzle requires an entry ticket.
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1St Andrew's Church (Andräkirche)Start
St Andrew's Church on Mirabellplatz was built in neo-Gothic style at the end of the 19th century for the growing new town on the right bank of the Salzach. It was badly damaged by bombs in the Second World War and rebuilt afterwards in a simpler form.
2Mozart Residence (Mozart-Wohnhaus)
In 1773 the Mozart family moved from Getreidegasse into this roomier house on Makartplatz, known as the Tanzmeisterhaus after the dancing masters who once taught here, and Wolfgang lived here until he left for Vienna in 1781. The house was hit by a bomb in 1944 and rebuilt, and today it is a museum about the Mozart family.
3Marko-Feingold-Steg
This footbridge over the Salzach links Makartplatz with the old town and was long known as the Makartsteg. It now bears the name of Marko Feingold, who survived several Nazi concentration camps and later led Salzburg's Jewish community for decades; he died in 2019 at the age of 106. Its railings are covered in love locks left by couples.
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4Pferdeschwemme (Horse Pond)
This Baroque horse pond from the late 17th century was used to wash and water the horses of the prince-archbishop's court stables, whose buildings now house the Festival halls. In the middle a horse tamer by Michael Bernhard Mandl holds a rearing horse, and the wall behind is painted with pictures of horses.
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5Mozart's Birthplace
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was born on 27 January 1756 on the third floor of this house at Getreidegasse 9, where his family rented an apartment. It has been a museum since 1880, and the words Mozarts Geburtshaus are written in large letters on its yellow façade.
6Residenzplatz
Residenzplatz is framed by the Residenz, the palace of the prince-archbishops, and the Neue Residenz, whose tower holds the Salzburg Glockenspiel. In the middle stands the Residenzbrunnen from the mid-17th century, one of the largest Baroque fountains north of the Alps, with horses, giants and a Triton spouting water at the top.
7Salzburg Cathedral
Salzburg Cathedral was rebuilt in early Baroque style to designs by Santino Solari and consecrated in 1628. Mozart was baptised in its bronze font in 1756, and the three bronze doors at the entrance carry the years 774, 1628 and 1959: the first cathedral, the consecration and the reconsecration after war damage.
8St Peter's Abbey
St Peter's Abbey was founded by St Rupert around 696 and is one of the oldest monasteries in the German-speaking world still in use. Its cemetery at the foot of the Mönchsberg has wrought-iron grave crosses, catacombs cut into the rock and the grave of Mozart's sister Nannerl.
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9Kapitelschwemme
The Kapitelschwemme on Kapitelplatz was built in 1732 under Prince-Archbishop Leopold Anton von Firmian as a horse pond for the cathedral chapter. In the middle Neptune with his trident rides a sea horse, and on the same square stands Sphaera, Stephan Balkenhol's large golden ball with a man standing on top.
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10Hohensalzburg FortressFinish
Archbishop Gebhard began Hohensalzburg Fortress in 1077, and it was enlarged over the centuries, above all under Leonhard von Keutschach around 1500, whose turnip coat of arms appears on its walls. It is one of the largest fully preserved medieval castles in Europe, and the Festungsbahn funicular has run up to it since 1892.
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Maria– Germany –
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1 Punkt Stift St. Peter haben wir ganz sch?n gesucht. Alles anderen Sehensw?rdigkeiten haben wir gut gefunden und die R?tsel gut zu l?sen. Klare Empfehlung
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Mooie tocht als je je tijd neemt Hier en daar iets extra te bezoeken. Leuke raadsels.