Strasbourg scavenger hunt
The St. Paul's Church is a stunning Neo-Gothic church set along the River Ill, admired for its soaring twin spires, beautiful stained glass, and postcard-perfect reflections in the surrounding canals.
The Petite France is Strasbourg’s most charming historic district, known for its half-timbered houses, flower-lined canals, and romantic cobbled streets that capture the heart of Alsatian culture.
The Petite France is Strasbourg’s most charming historic district, known for its half-timbered houses, flower-lined canals, and romantic cobbled streets that capture the heart of Alsatian culture.
The Strasbourg Cathedral is a breathtaking Gothic masterpiece famous for its intricate pink sandstone façade, soaring single tower, and astronomical clock, dominating the skyline of Strasbourg’s historic old town.
The Ponts Couverts are a picturesque set of medieval bridges and defensive towers in Strasbourg, offering one of the city’s most charming canal views in the heart of the historic Petite France district.
Place Gutenberg is a lively historic square in the heart of Strasbourg, surrounded by elegant Alsatian architecture and cafés, and dedicated to Johannes Gutenberg, the pioneer of modern printing.
Strasbourg scavenger hunt
The St. Paul's Church is a stunning Neo-Gothic church set along the River Ill, admired for its soaring twin spires, beautiful stained glass, and postcard-perfect reflections in the surrounding canals.
The Petite France is Strasbourg’s most charming historic district, known for its half-timbered houses, flower-lined canals, and romantic cobbled streets that capture the heart of Alsatian culture.
The Petite France is Strasbourg’s most charming historic district, known for its half-timbered houses, flower-lined canals, and romantic cobbled streets that capture the heart of Alsatian culture.
The Strasbourg Cathedral is a breathtaking Gothic masterpiece famous for its intricate pink sandstone façade, soaring single tower, and astronomical clock, dominating the skyline of Strasbourg’s historic old town.
The Ponts Couverts are a picturesque set of medieval bridges and defensive towers in Strasbourg, offering one of the city’s most charming canal views in the heart of the historic Petite France district.
Place Gutenberg is a lively historic square in the heart of Strasbourg, surrounded by elegant Alsatian architecture and cafés, and dedicated to Johannes Gutenberg, the pioneer of modern printing.

Strasbourg Scavenger Hunt and Self-Guided Tour

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Your own guide to Strasbourg on your phone: hand-picked places, each with why to go, what to order and a practical tip.

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Strasbourg scavenger hunt: Petite France, the cathedral and the Neustadt in one game

The Strasbourg scavenger hunt is a self-guided city game you play on your phone: you walk a 3.8 km route across the Grande Île and the Neustadt, solve a riddle at each of 10 landmarks and unlock the stories behind them. Give the game about 3 hours: the legs between stops add up to just 47 minutes on foot, and the rest is spent at the landmarks themselves, puzzling over façades, statues and towers.

Highlights include the Ponts Couverts in Petite France, St Thomas's Church, the cathedral with its 142-metre spire, Palais Rohan and Place Kléber, before the route crosses into the German-era Neustadt around Place de la République. The old centre sits on an island surrounded by water, so it is flat, compact and easy to explore on foot.

  • Durationabout 3 hours
  • Walkingabout 47 min · 3.8 km
  • Stops10
  • LanguagesEnglish, German, French, Italian, Spanish, Dutch, Chinese

Riddles on sandstone, timber and water

Clues in red sandstone

At every stop one riddle waits on the building in front of you: a carved figure on the cathedral's west front, the lettering under Gutenberg's statue, the Muses above the opera's columns. Looking and reasoning solve it, so nobody expects you to know Alsatian history.

Printers, marshals and a future queen

A solved riddle unlocks the stop's stories: Gutenberg's years in the city before his Bible, Mozart at the organ of St Thomas's, Marie Antoinette's first night on French soil in Palais Rohan, General Kléber lying beneath his own statue. The audio narration tells them while you keep looking up.

Flat streets and waterside paths

Google Maps takes you across 3.8 km of the Grande Île and the Neustadt, 47 minutes of walking in all. The old centre is an island in the Ill, so the route stays level and crosses the water more than once.

A tarte flambée between riddles

The game simply waits while you sit down to a tarte flambée or a slice of kougelhopf. Close the app, take the afternoon off and pick up the trail tomorrow at the stop where you left it.

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How it works

  1. Book online Choose the number of players. Your booking reference arrives by email straight away.
  2. Get the app Download the World City Trail app from the App Store or Google Play and enter your booking reference.
  3. 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 Strasbourg hunt suits

A city between two countries

Strasbourg passed between France and Germany more than once, and the route shows both sides: the medieval island and its French palaces, then the Neustadt laid out under German rule. On a short visit the riddles walk you through that story stop by stop.

Sleuths on Place Gutenberg

Children like the bronze Gutenberg, the general buried in the middle of Place Kléber and the towers of the Ponts Couverts that once guarded the river. They play with a grown-up as a teammate.

Teams, classes and colleagues

Groups split into teams of up to 5, every player with the game on their own phone, and set off from Petite France one after another. Place Kléber, halfway along the route, is a handy spot to check how the other teams are doing.

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: Petite France, the cathedral and Place Kléber, then into the Neustadt

10 stops · about 47 min walking · start: Ponts Couverts (Covered Bridges) · finish: St Paul's Church

The hunt starts at the Ponts Couverts in Petite France and passes St Thomas's Church and Place Gutenberg before crossing the Ill to the Alsatian Museum. Back on the Grande Île you reach the cathedral, Palais Rohan, Place Kléber and the opera house on Place Broglie, then continue into the Neustadt via Place de la République and finish at St Paul's Church. Every riddle can be cracked from the street, cathedral included, so the game asks for no entry tickets, and the app is just as happy to start you at Place Kléber or the opera and rearrange the stops from there.

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  1. Ponts Couverts (Covered Bridges)

    1Ponts Couverts (Covered Bridges)Start

    These three bridges and four defensive towers were built from 1230 and opened in 1250 to guard the point where the Ill enters the city in four channels. They kept the name covered bridges even after their wooden roofs were removed in 1784, and just upstream the Vauban Dam took over their defensive role in 1690.

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  2. St Thomas's Church

    2St Thomas's Church

    St Thomas's Church was begun in 1196, completed in 1521 and has been Protestant since 1524. Inside is Jean-Baptiste Pigalle's tomb of Marshal Maurice de Saxe from 1777, and Mozart played its Silbermann organ of 1741 during his visit in 1778.

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  3. Place Gutenberg

    3Place Gutenberg

    The square is named after Johannes Gutenberg, who lived in Strasbourg in the 1430s and 1440s, before printing his famous Bible in Mainz. His bronze statue by David d'Angers has stood in the middle of the square since 1840.

  4. Alsatian Museum

    4Alsatian Museum

    The Musée Alsacien opened in 1907 in a group of Renaissance timber-framed houses on Quai Saint-Nicolas, on the bank of the Ill. Its rooms recreate traditional Alsatian interiors and show more than 5,000 objects of mostly rural daily life, including a collection on the life of Alsatian Jews.

  5. Strasbourg Cathedral (Notre-Dame)

    5Strasbourg Cathedral (Notre-Dame)

    The cathedral is built of red sandstone from the Vosges, and its single spire, finished in 1439, rises 142 metres: from 1647 to 1874 it made the cathedral the tallest building in the world. Look for the richly carved west front, linked to the master builder Erwin von Steinbach, and inside the astronomical clock built by Jean-Baptiste Schwilgué in 1837–1842.

  6. Palais Rohan

    6Palais Rohan

    This palace was built in 1732–1742 to designs by Robert de Cotte for Cardinal Armand Gaston de Rohan, bishop of Strasbourg. Marie Antoinette spent her first night on French soil here in 1770, and today it houses the city's Fine Arts, Decorative Arts and Archaeological museums.

  7. Place Kléber

    7Place Kléber

    Strasbourg's central square is named after General Jean-Baptiste Kléber, born in the city in 1753, who is buried beneath his statue by Philippe Grass in the middle of the square. One side is lined by the long Aubette, built in 1765–1772 by the royal architect Jacques-François Blondel.

  8. Opéra national du Rhin (Strasbourg Opera House)

    8Opéra national du Rhin (Strasbourg Opera House)

    Strasbourg's opera house on Place Broglie is a neoclassical building by Jean-Nicolas Villot that opened in 1821. Heavily damaged by Prussian artillery during the siege of 1870, it reopened in 1873, and six sandstone statues of Muses by Landolin Ohmacht stand above the columns of its portico.

  9. Place de la République

    9Place de la République

    Laid out from 1880 as the Kaiserplatz, the square is the centrepiece of the Neustadt, the district built under German rule, and is framed by the Palais du Rhin, the former imperial palace of 1884–1887. In the garden stands Léon-Ernest Drivier's war memorial of 1936: a mother holding her two dead sons, recalling Strasbourg's history between France and Germany.

  10. St Paul's Church

    10St Paul's ChurchFinish

    This neo-Gothic church was built in 1892–1897 for the Lutheran soldiers of the German garrison, to designs by Louis Muller inspired by St Elizabeth's Church in Marburg. Its twin spires, 76 metres high, rise at the southern tip of an island in the Ill, and since 1919 it has been a Reformed church.

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    Aktivität sehr gut. Man bekommt einen sehr schönen Eindruck von Straßburgs Altstadt, gute Erklärungen und Beschreibungen. Genial um zwischendurch noch was zu Essen oder die Umgebung genauer zu erkunden. Auf diese Weise kann man einen kompletten Tagesausflug daraus machen. Am Startpunkt mussten wir erst eine Parkmöglichkeit (ein Parkhaus ca. 800m entfernt) suchen. Zielpunkt dann 3km von unserem Auto entfernt. Schön wäre, wenn man die Attraktionen vielleicht irgendwie als Rundgang anlegen könnte. Die “Schnitzeljagd” durch Straßburg war definitiv empfehlenswert!!! Die dazugehörige World City Trail App beherbergt noch viele weitere Städte, die wir Sicherlich noch ausprobieren werden.

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    Kurzweilig, Rätsel lösbar. Nette Abwechslung zu normalen Audiotouren.

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    Es war schön eine Route zu haben, bei der man aber jederzeit auch nach eigenen Interessen Stops hat einfügen können. Die Infos zu den Sehenswürdigkeiten waren kurz und knapp, sodass auch Teens noch gut beim Thema blieben. Die Navigation mittels integrierter Karte war hervorragend, die Rätsel nett. Ich würde auch in anderen Städten solche Touren wieder buchen.

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    Es war eine gute Tour mit tollen Sehenswürdigkeiten, die Rätsel waren auch gut und wir haben alles in 2 1/2 Std geschafft.

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    Nos gustó mucho. La ruta muy adecuada y la información que nos iban dando era muy interesante.

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    C’est amusant et instructif ! Mon de 9 ans qui nous accompagnait à adoré aussi. Nous avons visité les principaux sites et nous avons appris plein de choses. Idéal pour animer une visite historique. Si cette chasse aux trésors existe dans d’autres ville je renouvellerai l’expérience.

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    Die Auswahl der Rätselstationen.

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    Peu d’énigme mais parcours très sympa pour découvrir la ville

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    sehr schöne, kurzweilige App . Hat selbst den Kindern Spass gemacht 😉

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    No me ha gustado mucho. Información muy básica. Y los acertijos no me han gustado. Mis hijos no los entendían.

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    Visite complète de la ville, fait avec deux enfants de 13 et 11 ans qui ont pu résoudre les énigmes. Seul bémol c’est que le pont final est à 30 min à pieds du point de départ ??

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Frequently asked questions

Can we fit the Strasbourg hunt in between lunch and dinner?

Yes, if you give it about 3 hours. Only 47 minutes of that is walking, over 3.8 km and 10 stops, and the rest goes on riddles, stories and a coffee or two, so the game also splits nicely over two days.

Which end of Strasbourg does the hunt start from?

From the west: the first riddle is at the Ponts Couverts in Petite France, where the Ill enters the city, and the last at St Paul's Church on the far side of the Neustadt. If you are staying near the cathedral, the app lets you begin at another stop instead.

Who leads the game in Strasbourg, and when can we set off?

The app leads it, so you set off whenever you like. Enter the booking reference from your email in the World City Trail app and the first riddle opens on the day and at the hour you choose, with one ticket and one phone for each player.

Is the cathedral platform or the astronomical clock part of the hunt?

No, the hunt stays outdoors, and every riddle is solved from a street or a square. Climbing to the cathedral platform, seeing the astronomical clock inside, or visiting the Alsatian Museum and the museums in Palais Rohan are separate visits with their own tickets.

Can children keep up with the riddles from Petite France to the Neustadt?

Easily, as long as a grown-up is one of the players. They search Gutenberg's statue for clues, hear why Kléber is buried under the middle of his square and count the Muses on top of the opera house. The route is flat, but cobbles and kerbs rule out wheelchairs and make a buggy bumpy.

Besides English, which languages does the Strasbourg hunt speak?

Six more: German, French, Italian, Spanish, Dutch and Chinese. The choice is made in the World City Trail app, before you open the first riddle at the Ponts Couverts.

Could a company or a club play the Strasbourg hunt together?

Yes, and it takes no organising beyond the tickets. Form teams of five or fewer, start them a few minutes apart at the Ponts Couverts and gather again at St Paul's Church, or over dinner back in Petite France.

What do we need in our pockets for the Strasbourg hunt?

One charged phone with mobile data per team, a power bank to see you through 3 hours, and shoes for cobbled lanes. An umbrella is worth carrying in Alsace, and earphones make the narration easier to follow on busy Place Kléber.

Start under the towers of the Ponts Couverts

Tickets are sold online, one per head, and the booking reference turns up in your inbox shortly afterwards. Walk to the covered bridges in Petite France, open the World City Trail app and look up at the old towers.

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