France · Storytelling Tours

Nazi Escape Exploration Game in Lyon

2 Hours Round trip from Lyon Easy pace

The journey

Trip highlights
  • 01 Explore Lyon through a self-guided outdoor escape game
  • 02 Solve clues as you walk between historic landmarks
  • 03 Discover Place des Terreaux and the streets of Vieux Lyon
  • 04 See hidden passageways and tucked-away courtyards
  • 05 Learn stories behind Lyon’s monuments and architecture
  • 06 Play at your own pace with no time limit
  • 07 Private experience with no physical guide required

Discover Lyon through a self-guided city game that blends sightseeing, storytelling, and puzzle-solving. As you explore historic squares, hidden passageways, and the atmospheric streets of Vieux Lyon, each clue leads you to the next location while revealing stories about the city’s landmarks.

This experience combines the fun of an outdoor escape game with the freedom of a walking tour at your own pace. Along the way, you’ll pass places such as Place des Terreaux, Vieux Lyon, and Lyon Cathedral while uncovering the city’s fascinating heritage.

Discover Lyon through a self-guided city game that blends sightseeing, storytelling, and puzzle-solving.

From the itinerary

At a glance

What this trip includes

Duration 2 Hours
Tour type Private
Activity level Easy
Accommodation Not included
Transport Not included
Wheelchair access No
City Lyon
Languages English

Day by day

The itinerary

1
Day 01

The Hôtel de Ville de Lyon is the city hall of the City of Lyon and one of the largest historic buildings in the city, located between the Place des Terreaux and the Place de la Comédie, in front of the Opera Nouvel. Since 12 July 1886, the building has been classified as a Monument historique.

Here you will have to look around to find the answer to our challenge to advance to the new location and learn the story of this place.The Fontaine Bartholdi is a fountain sculpted by Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi and realised in 1889 by Gaget & Gautier. It was erected at the Place des Terreaux, in the 1st arrondissement of Lyon, in September 1892.

Here you will have to look around to find the answer to our challenge to advance to the new location and learn the story of this place.This house marks the start of the Vieux Lyon, the ‘Old town’, the largest Renaissance area of Lyon. Named ‘Rue Juiverie’ because of the Jewish community that used to live here, it literally translates to ‘Jewish Street’.

Here you will have to look around to find the answer to our challenge to advance to the new location and learn the story of this place.It is better known under the name of "Pink Tower", because of its tower which shelters a staircase since its construction during the Renaissance by an owner who built one of the tallest buildings of the district. However, at that point, it would not be rosy, and will not become so until much later.

Here you will have to look around to find the answer to our challenge to advance to the new location and learn the story of this place.This centuries-old, tucked-away route through buildings is the longest of its kind in the city.

Here you will have to look around to find the answer to our challenge to advance to the new location and learn the story of this place.The cathedral was founded by Saint Pothinus and Saint Irenaeus, the first two bishops of Lyon. The cathedral is also known as a "Primatiale" because in 1079 the Pope granted to the archbishop of Lyon the title of Primate of All the Gauls with the legal supremacy over the principal archbishops of the kingdom. It is located in the heart of the old town (Vieux Lyon) and it backs up to the Saône river, with a large plaza in front of it and a metro stop nearby providing easy access to and from the city center.

Here you will have to look around to find the answer to our challenge to advance to the new location and learn the story of this place.Still called the Saint-Georges footbridge, this structure connecting the districts of Ainay and Saint-Georges was opened to the public on October 21, 1853. It consists of an 87 m span suspended by guy wires fixed in masts anchored in the two piers placed 10 m from the banks.

Destroyed in 1944, the footbridge is rebuilt identically. On March 17, 2003, it was renamed the Paul Couturier footbridge in honor of this priest, born in La Guillotière on July 29, 1881 and died on March 29, 1953, who contributed to interfaith exchanges.

Here you will have to look around to find the answer to our challenge to advance to the new location and learn the story of this place.On a 15 meter/50 feet high base stands a 7½ meter/25 feet tall allegorical woman (Marianne) representing the Republic. She wears a Phrygian cap and caresses a lion's head with her right hand and holds an olive branch (symbol of peace) with her left hand. At the top of the base is a frieze with reliefs of the symbols of the republic: the Gallic rooster trampling a snake, a double cornucopia with the Phrygian cap, and a double cornucopia with the symbol of the city of Lyon (?). Below this frieze are the dates 1848 - 1870.

Here you will have to look around to find the answer to our challenge to advance to the new location and learn the story of this place.

The route

Where you'll travel

Tour route map
Round trip from Lyon 1 city · 2 Hours

The fine print

Trip details

What's Included

  • Full flexibility: start at any hour, take a break at any time and resume later
  • This tour is always available to book. We are open 24/7, every day of the week.
  • This is the safest tour you can book: private, no human contact, you will avoid crowds.
  • Play offline: you DON'T NEED an internet connection to play this city game

What's Not Included

A physical tour guide

Know before you go

  • STROLLER OR PRAM ACCESSIBLE
  • ANIMALS OR PETS ALLOWED
  • PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION NEARBY
  • Not wheelchair accessible
  • Infants must not sit on laps
  • Infant seats unavailable
  • Head to the starting point and enjoy your city game!

Logistics

Meeting & route

Meeting point
Lyon, FR
Tour start
Lyon, FR
Tour ends at the same location as the start point.
End of the journey

Your 2 hours finish where they began, in Lyon.

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