What is the Tarragona outdoor escape game?
The Tarragona outdoor escape game is an escape room played in the open air: the puzzles are built into the city's boulevard, its Roman ruins and its upper-town squares, and you solve them on your smartphone. Each of the 10 stops holds one puzzle, worked out from what you can see and a bit of logic. Allow about 2 hours, of which 32 minutes are walking over 2.4 km.
Puzzles are waiting at the bronze human tower of the Castellers Monument, on the Rambla Nova, at the Balcó del Mediterrani above the sea, in the Roman amphitheatre and circus, on Plaça dels Sedassos with its painted trompe-l'oeil wall and at the cathedral. Roman Tarraco stands directly among the modern streets, which keeps the walk between puzzles short.
- Durationabout 2 hours
- Walkingabout 32 min · 2.4 km
- Stops10
- LanguagesEnglish, German, French, Italian, Spanish, Dutch
What you do on the escape game
Solve
Each landmark sets one puzzle, answered by observation and reasoning. No prior knowledge is required.
Look closely
Clues sit in reliefs, inscriptions, mosaic paving and painted walls, so take the time to study each site.
Walk
Google Maps links the stops: 32 minutes on foot over 2.4 km, from the Rambla Nova up to the old town.
Take your time
No countdown runs. Open up to three levels of hints, pause at a terrace and continue 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
The puzzles stand alone, so everyone can take one on, and nobody needs to have read up on Roman history.
Couples
A challenge you work through together between the sea and the upper town, with no clock running.
Team building
Teams of up to 5 play on their own phones, so colleagues can set off in several groups on the same 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 Castellers Monument to the cathedral
10 stops · about 32 min walking · start: Castellers Monument · finish: Tarragona Cathedral
The first puzzle is at the Castellers Monument on the Rambla Nova, followed by the Font del Centenari and the Central Market on Plaça de Corsini. The boulevard then takes you down to the Balcó del Mediterrani, from where you drop to the Roman amphitheatre by the sea and climb past the Roman circus to the City Hall on Plaça de la Font. Through the Part Alta you reach Plaça dels Sedassos, and the final puzzle is at Tarragona Cathedral on the highest point of the old town. Start in daylight, since everything is solved outdoors. The app lets you reorder the stops, and no entry tickets are needed.
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1Castellers MonumentStart
This bronze monument on the Rambla Nova, by the sculptor Francesc Anglès, shows a complete castell, a human tower of people standing on one another's shoulders. Castells were declared UNESCO Intangible Cultural Heritage in 2010, and Tarragona hosts one of the most important castells competitions in Catalonia.
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2Font del Centenari
The Font del Centenari is a monumental stone fountain on the Rambla Nova, the main boulevard of modern Tarragona. Its name means Fountain of the Centenary, after the anniversary it was built to commemorate.
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3Central Market (Mercat Central)
Tarragona's Central Market is a modernista market hall designed by the architect Josep Maria Pujol de Barberà and opened in 1915. It stands on Plaça de Corsini, and its stalls of fish, cured ham, cheese and local produce make it a good place to taste the region.
4Rambla Nova
The Rambla Nova is the main boulevard of the new town that grew up beyond the old city in the 19th century. Lined with trees, cafés and monuments, it runs towards the sea and ends at the Balcó del Mediterrani, beside the statue of the medieval admiral Roger de Llúria.
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5Balcó del Mediterrani
At the sea end of the Rambla Nova, the Balcó del Mediterrani is a viewpoint high above the coast, the port and the railway line. Local custom says you should touch its iron railing for good luck, and from here you look down on the Roman amphitheatre and the Miracle beach.
6Roman Amphitheatre
Tarraco's amphitheatre was built in the 2nd century AD right beside the sea, partly cut into the rock, for gladiator fights and public spectacles. Bishop Fructuosus and his deacons Augurius and Eulogius were burned here in 259, and the remains of a Visigothic basilica and a Romanesque church still stand in the arena.
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7Roman Circus
Tarraco's circus for chariot races was built in the late 1st century AD, under Emperor Domitian, and was about 325 metres long. Much of it now lies beneath the houses of the old town, but some of its great vaults can still be seen, and Plaça de la Font follows the line of its track.
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8Tarragona City Hall
Tarragona City Hall stands on Plaça de la Font, a long square whose shape follows the track of the Roman circus that lies beneath it. During the Santa Tecla festival in September, the square in front of the City Hall is one of the main stages for the castellers' human towers.
9Plaça dels Sedassos
Plaça dels Sedassos is a small square in the Part Alta, the old upper town, and its name means the sieves in Catalan. One of its walls is covered by a large painted mural in trompe-l'oeil style, which plays with perspective so that painted windows and figures seem part of the real buildings.
10Tarragona CathedralFinish
Tarragona Cathedral stands on the highest point of the old town, where the temple precinct of Roman Tarraco once stood, and was built mainly in the 12th and 13th centuries. Its façade combines Romanesque side doors with a Gothic central portal and a large rose window, and it is dedicated to Saint Thecla, the city's patron saint.
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