Poland · Storytelling Tours

Krakow Old Town Mysteries: Exploration Game and Tour

2 Hours Round trip from Kraków Easy pace

The journey

Trip highlights
  • 01 Solve 15 puzzle-based challenges around Krakow’s Old Town
  • 02 Explore at your own pace with a self-guided smartphone game
  • 03 Discover myths, legends, and stories hidden in the city streets
  • 04 See landmarks such as St. Florian’s Gate and Adam Mickiewicz Monument
  • 05 Pass through the Main Market Square and historic Old Town sights
  • 06 Enjoy a flexible experience that can be paused and resumed anytime

Discover Krakow’s Old Town in a different way on this self-guided exploration game filled with myths, legends, and hidden stories. Using your smartphone, you’ll follow a puzzle-based route through the historic centre, solving challenges as you go and uncovering the secrets behind some of the city’s best-known landmarks.

Along the way, explore places such as St. Florian’s Gate, the Main Market Square, Saints Peter and Paul Church, and the Wawel Dragon Statue. With the freedom to pause and resume whenever you like, this experience is ideal for families, couples, friends, and curious travellers who enjoy sightseeing with a playful twist.

Discover Krakow’s Old Town in a different way on this self-guided exploration game filled with myths, legends, and hidden stories.

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 Cracow
Languages English, German

Day by day

The itinerary

1
Day 01

The Kraków Barbican is a barbican – a fortified outpost once connected to the city walls. It is a historic gateway leading into the Old Town of Kraków, Poland.

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.St. Florian's Gate or Florian Gate in Kraków, Poland, is one of the best-known Polish Gothic towers, and a focal point of Kraków's Old Town. It was built about the 14th century as a rectangular Gothic tower of "wild stone", part of the city fortifications against Turkish attack.

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.Jama Michalika is a popular café with history spanning over a hundred years. It is located at Floriańska Street in Kraków, the capital of the Lesser Poland region.

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 permanent exhibition is housed in the family home of Jan Matejko (1838-1893), the greatest Polish artist working in the genre of history painting, a collector and an enthusiast for monuments, particularly those in Krakow. The old Krakow building (rebuilt in the 18th and 19th centuries) is the place where Jan Matejko was born, lived with his family, created his paintings and passed away.

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 Hipolits were a merchant family who lived in this fine building on Plac Mariacki around the end of the 16th and beginning of the 17th centuries, though the building dates back considerably further than that. The inside has been transformed into a series of recreations of typical Polish bourgeois living spaces from the 17th to early 20th century, and is interesting for the insights it gives into how the other half lived, as well as being a showcase for some truly remarkable furniture and antiques. Worth a visit.

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 monument - Żak's fountain is located on St. Mary's Square. It was designed by Jan Budziłło and unveiled in 1958. The pedestal is a tribute to Wit Stwosz made by Krakow craftsmen. The Żaczek figure is a copy of one of the figures in the altar of Wit Stwosz in St Mary's Church.

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.Adam Mickiewicz Monument in Kraków, is one of the best known bronze monuments in Poland, and a favourite meeting place at the Main Market Square in the Old Town district of Kraków.

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.Town Hall Tower in Kraków, Poland is one of the main focal points of the Main Market Square in the Old Town district of Kraków. The Tower is the only remaining part of the old Kraków Town Hall demolished in 1820 as part of the city plan to open up the Main Square.

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 Church of Saints Peter and Paul is a Roman Catholic Polish Baroque church located at 54 Grodzka Street in the Old Town district of Kraków, Poland. It was built between 1597–1619 by Giovanni Maria Bernardoni who perfected the original design of Józef Britius.

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 October 14, 2016, was the official presentation of the sculptures of Banach and Nikodym to the public. The Krakow mathematical community and the local media were present at this ceremony. The background information can be found on a plaque that one finds on the ground.

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 Zbruch Idol, Sviatovid is a 9th-century sculpture, more precisely an example of a bałwan, and one of the few monuments of pre-Christian Slavic beliefs, according to another interpretation was created by the Kipchaks/Cumans.

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.Wawel Dragon Statue is a monument at the foot of the Wawel Hill in Kraków, Poland, in front of the Wawel Dragon's den, dedicated to the mythical Wawel Dragon.

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 Kraków 1 city · 2 Hours

The fine print

Trip details

What's Included

  • Mobile access code for the quest
  • 15 puzzle-based challenges
  • Storyline content based on Krakow’s myths and legends
  • Flexibility: pause and resume whenever you like

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
  • - Unlock your city game in the Questo app using this link:
  • - Download the Questo app using this link (it’s free):
  • - Head to the starting point and enjoy your city game!

Logistics

Meeting & route

Meeting point
Kraków, PL
Tour start
Kraków, PL
Tour ends at the same location as the start point.
End of the journey

Your 2 hours finish where they began, in Kraków.

Watch the tourHQ film Watch the film

Create your own adventure

Can't find the perfect tour? Tailor your dream trip.

  • Tell us your destination, dates and group size.
  • Our travel experts and local guides design a tailored itinerary, just for you.
  • Enjoy your trip with peace of mind, knowing everything is taken care of.
Plan my holiday

Say goodbye to travel stress.