What is the Turin outdoor escape game?
Think of a puzzle trail that uses Turin as its playing board. The Turin outdoor escape game sends you from one landmark to the next on your smartphone, and each of the 10 stops holds a puzzle that you crack by studying what is around you and working it out logically. Plan on about 2 hours, with 35 minutes on foot covering 3.0 km, and choose the day that suits you.
The puzzles sit on the squares and façades of the old centre, from the cathedral that keeps the Shroud of Turin to the Royal Palace, Palazzo Madama and the twin churches on Piazza San Carlo. Each puzzle stands alone with no storyline to follow, and up to three levels of hints are available. Turin suits an outdoor format: its grand squares and arcades keep the monuments within easy walking distance of one another.
- Durationabout 2 hours
- Walkingabout 35 min · 3 km
- Stops10
- LanguagesEnglish, German, French, Italian, Spanish, Dutch
What you do on the escape game
Solve
Work out each puzzle from the clues around you. You do not need to know the history of the House of Savoy beforehand.
Look closer
The answers are in the façades, the statues and the layout of each square.
Walk
Google Maps guides you across 3.0 km, about 35 minutes on foot, from one stop to the next.
Take your time
No countdown is running. Use a hint when you are stuck, sit down for a coffee, and carry on 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 on a city break
Each puzzle gives the group something to debate at the next monument, and no knowledge of the city is needed.
Couples
A shared challenge that keeps you talking as you wander between palaces and piazzas, with no clock to beat.
Team building
Teams of up to 5 use their own phones, so colleagues can split the reasoning and compare answers.
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 Cathedral to Piazza Solferino
10 stops · about 35 min walking · start: Turin Cathedral (San Giovanni Battista) · finish: Piazza Solferino
The first puzzle waits at Turin Cathedral and the last one on Piazza Solferino. In between, the trail runs past the Royal Palace, Palazzo Madama and the Galleria Subalpina to Piazza Carlo Alberto, then the National Museum of the Italian Risorgimento, Palazzo Carignano, the Egyptian Museum, Piazza San Carlo and Piazza Solferino. Google Maps guides you between stops, the app lets you change the starting point and the order, and no entry tickets are needed for the puzzles.
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1Turin Cathedral (San Giovanni Battista)Start
Built between 1491 and 1498, the cathedral of Saint John the Baptist is Turin's main Renaissance church, with a white marble façade. Behind it rises the stepped dome of Guarino Guarini's Chapel of the Holy Shroud, and the Shroud of Turin is kept in the cathedral.
2Royal Palace of Turin
For centuries this palace was the main residence of the House of Savoy, the dynasty that later ruled united Italy. Its sober façade dates mainly from the 17th century, and statues of Castor and Pollux guard the gate in front. It belongs to the Savoy residences listed by UNESCO in 1997.
3Palazzo Madama
The building in the middle of Piazza Castello shows two thousand years at once: a Roman gate, a medieval castle and a Baroque façade by Filippo Juvarra from the early 18th century. It is named after two royal widows, the Madame Reali, who lived here, and in 1861 it housed the first Senate of the Kingdom of Italy.
4Galleria Subalpina
This covered shopping arcade, opened in 1874, links Piazza Castello with Piazza Carlo Alberto under a roof of iron and glass. Its marble floors, stucco and old shop fronts recall the elegant cafés and shops of 19th-century Turin.
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5Piazza Carlo Alberto
The square is named after King Charles Albert, whose equestrian bronze by Carlo Marochetti stands in the middle. On one side rises the 19th-century rear façade of Palazzo Carignano. According to a famous story, the philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche, who lived nearby, broke down here in January 1889 after embracing a horse.
6National Museum of the Italian Risorgimento
Housed in Palazzo Carignano, this is Italy's national museum of the Risorgimento, the 19th-century movement that unified the country. Paintings, weapons, flags and documents tell the story of unification, and the visit includes the hall of the Subalpine Parliament of the Kingdom of Sardinia.
7Palazzo Carignano
Guarino Guarini designed this palace for the Carignano branch of the Savoy family, begun in 1679, with an undulating brick façade facing Piazza Carignano. Victor Emmanuel II, the first king of united Italy, was born here in 1820, and the first Italian Parliament met here in 1861.
8Egyptian Museum (Museo Egizio)
Founded in 1824, the Museo Egizio is considered the oldest museum in the world devoted entirely to ancient Egypt. Its collection began with objects bought by King Charles Felix from Bernardino Drovetti, and it occupies the 17th-century palace of the Academy of Sciences.
9Piazza San Carlo
This Baroque square framed by arcades is often called Turin's drawing room. At its southern end stand the twin churches of San Carlo and Santa Cristina, and in the middle Duke Emanuele Filiberto sheathes his sword on horseback, a bronze by Carlo Marochetti from 1838.
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10Piazza SolferinoFinish
This 19th-century square is named after the Battle of Solferino of 1859, a victory of France and Piedmont-Sardinia over Austria. Its Fontana Angelica, from the early 20th century, has bronze figures said to represent the seasons, and an equestrian statue of Prince Ferdinand, Duke of Genoa, also stands on the square.
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