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What's it like to run a City Quest in PassportsGo?
A City Quest turns a day in a new city into a race. Your group walks from stop to stop — a little history, a question you can only answer by looking around, a team photo at each one — and everyone plays along on their own phone. Now you can play 10 of them from home.
On this page
- Watch the trailer: Europe, rebuilt in light
- How a City Quest works on a real tour
- PassportsGo, and the company behind it
- Play 10 City Quests in 3D, right here
Experience a City Quest from home
Europe at night, rebuilt in light. Ten quests, three teams, one winner.
City Quest: The Game turns 10 real PassportsGo City Quests, in 7 European cities, into a game you play in your browser: walk the real streets with your team, answer each stop's question on the in-game PassportsGo phone, and race two other teams to the finish. Every quest has its own trailer, with its stops below.
Play City Quest: The GameFree, in your browser · best with a keyboard and mouse
Filmed in the game · voice and music generated with AI
On a real tour
How a City Quest works in PassportsGo
On tour, a City Quest isn't a game on a screen: it's an afternoon on foot in the city you're visiting, with PassportsGo keeping score. Here's how it goes.
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The group leader starts it
On the day, your leader picks a City Quest and its stops in PassportsGo and taps Start: for the whole group, or as teams racing each other. Everyone traveling gets a notification.
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Walk to the next stop
The quest shows the way: a map with your team's blue dot and walking directions. Each stop unlocks when you get there.
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Read, answer, snap
At every stop: a little history, a question you can only answer by looking around, and a team photo.
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Side Quests on the way
Photo challenges you can snap anytime for bonus points — a local treat with your team, a parked Vespa, a fountain creature, an ancient fragment built into a wall.
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The finish and the recap
Progress shows every team's standing until the last stop. Then the recap, with every team photo, lands on everyone's Home — parents' too.
The company
Passports Educational Travel
Educational tours for teachers and their students since 1992 — more than 150,000 American students abroad with us, on trips built around what they're learning and led by our Tour Directors.
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City Quest: The Game
10 City Quests in 7 cities, about half an hour each. Best on a laptop or desktop with a keyboard and mouse; it works on phones too. Pick a city on the map, and its local guide takes it from there.
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The quests
10 City Quests, stop by stop
Every quest in the game is a real PassportsGo City Quest, with the same stops in the same order. Open one to watch its trailer and see where it goes.
Rome: Popes, Sculptors & the Theater of Water
- 1The Spanish Steps & the BarcacciaA fountain carved as a half-sinking boat, where the Bernini sculptors turned feeble water pressure into Baroque theater at the foot of Rome’s grandest staircase.
- 2The Trevi FountainRome’s largest Baroque fountain, where the sea-titan Oceanus bursts from a palace wall above water still carried by a 2,000-year-old aqueduct.
- 3Sant’Ignazio & the Fake DomeA church that ran out of money turned its missing dome into Rome’s greatest optical trick — a flat painted ceiling that, from one spot on the floor, seems to soar open to heaven.
- 4The PantheonA 2,000-year-old temple-turned-church whose colossal concrete dome — still the world’s largest unreinforced one — is pierced by a single open eye to the sky.
- 5Bernini’s ElephantA chubby marble elephant by Bernini props a real ancient Egyptian obelisk on its back, wrapped in a cheeky legend about the sculptor’s revenge on quarrelsome friars.
- 6Piazza Navona & the Four RiversFour colossal marble river-gods sprawl beneath a soaring obelisk — Bernini’s dazzling carved map of the whole known world, set on the oval of an ancient Roman stadium.
- 7Campo de’ FioriA hooded bronze philosopher, burned alive in 1600, still glares toward the Vatican from the center of Rome’s liveliest market square — the darker side of Counter-Reformation Rome.
- 8The Turtle FountainA jewel-box bronze fountain where four youths forever nudge tiny turtles skyward — and where a centuries-old mystery still asks whether Bernini himself sculpted them.
London: Palaces, Parliament & Pageantry
- 1Trafalgar SquareBritain’s great public square, where the nation gathers beneath its greatest naval hero on a 50-meter column guarded by four giant bronze lions.
- 2Horse GuardsA pair of the King’s mounted Household Cavalry guard the historic gateway to the royal palaces, sitting motionless on horseback for one of London’s best photos.
- 3The Banqueting HouseThe white classical hall — last fragment of a vanished royal palace — where a defeated King Charles I was marched out to a public scaffold in 1649.
- 4Downing StreetThrough these iron gates lies Number 10 — the Prime Minister’s home and Britain’s most famous front door, sealed off from the street since 1989.
- 5The CenotaphBritain’s solemn national war memorial — an "empty tomb" of pale Portland stone where the King and the country fall silent each November for those who never came home.
- 6Houses of Parliament & Big BenBritain’s lawmaking heart rises in soaring Gothic spires, crowned by the four-faced clock tower whose giant bell, "Big Ben," chimes across the Thames.
- 7Westminster AbbeyThe thousand-year coronation church of Britain, where every monarch from William the Conqueror in 1066 to King Charles III in 2023 has been crowned.
- 8Buckingham PalaceThe monarch’s official London home and working HQ, fronted by a colossal golden memorial to Queen Victoria and the red-coated drama of the Changing of the Guard.
London: Plague, Fire & Fortress
- 1St Paul’s CathedralSir Christopher Wren’s mighty domed cathedral rose from the ruins of the 1666 Great Fire and has crowned London’s skyline — and its grandest national moments — ever since.
- 2The Millennium BridgePause mid-river on the slender "Wobbly Bridge" for London’s perfect framed face-off between Wren’s dome of St Paul’s and the power-station-turned-gallery Tate Modern.
- 3Shakespeare’s GlobeStep up to a thatched, open-air "wooden O" — a faithful rebuild of Shakespeare’s playhouse on the riverbank where his words first thrilled the crowd.
- 4Borough MarketSniff out cheese, bread and street food on a riverside spot that’s traded for roughly a thousand years, in the lawless old Southwark that lay beyond the City’s rules.
- 5The MonumentA 202-foot Wren-and-Hooke column marks the very birthplace of the 1666 blaze that razed four-fifths of London — and rewards 311 stair-climbers with a sweeping view.
- 6Tower BridgeTwo castle-like towers hide a Victorian engineering trick — a road that splits and lifts to let tall ships sail through to the old docks.
- 7The Tower of LondonA thousand-year-old Norman stronghold — royal palace, dreaded prison and execution ground — that still guards the Crown Jewels behind walls patrolled by Beefeaters and ravens.
Paris: Books, Brains & Bohemians
- 1Shakespeare and CompanyA legendary green-fronted English bookshop where penniless writers have slept among the shelves for decades, gazing across the Seine at Notre-Dame.
- 2The Saint-Séverin LanesA maze of 13th-century lanes packed with crêperies, gyros stands and Greek tavernas, crowned by the Flamboyant Gothic church of Saint-Séverin.
- 3The SorbonneFounded in the 1250s, the cradle of Latin-speaking medieval learning — a domed Richelieu chapel, a café-lined square, and the spark-point of the May 1968 student revolt.
- 4Saint-Étienne-du-MontHome to the only surviving carved rood screen in Paris, the shrine of the city’s patron saint, the tombs of Pascal and Racine, and the magical midnight steps from the film "Midnight in Paris".
- 5The PanthéonA church-turned-revolutionary mausoleum crowning the Latin Quarter, where Voltaire, Rousseau and Marie Curie lie entombed beneath the dome that first proved the Earth spins.
- 6The Luxembourg GardensA Florentine queen’s 400-year-old garden where children still sail toy boats on an octagonal pond beneath the palace that now houses the French Senate.
- 7Saint-Germain-des-PrésParis’s oldest church — a 6th-century abbey with a thousand-year-old bell-tower — stands across from the legendary cafés where Sartre and de Beauvoir reinvented philosophy over coffee.
Paris: Aristocrats, Artists & the Seine
- 1The Hôtel de VilleA 650-year seat of Parisian government wrapped in a fairy-tale façade, fronted by the historic square that gave France its very word for "strike".
- 2Rue des RosiersA centuries-old, Hebrew-lettered corner of the Marais where the best falafel in Paris is served beside kosher bakeries and delis steeped in living Jewish culture.
- 3The Musée PicassoA salt-tax tycoon’s lavish 1650s Marais mansion now guards the world’s largest public hoard of Picasso’s paintings, sculptures and drawings.
- 4Place des VosgesParis’s oldest planned square — a flawless box of red-brick pavilions and arched stone arcades that King Henri IV built as a royal showpiece and aristocrats, a cardinal and Victor Hugo all called home.
- 5Maison de Victor HugoThe second-floor home where Victor Hugo lived for sixteen years and wrote much of Les Misérables — now a free museum that still holds his furniture and the Chinese salon he designed.
- 6Île Saint-Louis & Pont MarieCross a 400-year-old bridge to a hushed, elegant island of 17th-century townhouses where the Seine frames Notre-Dame and the city’s most legendary ice cream is waiting.
Montmartre: the Village That Art Built
- 1Carrousel de Saint-PierreThe leafy foot of the hill, where a carousel spins beneath the grand staircase up to the white domes.
- 2Sacré-Cœur BasilicaThe hilltop church that washes itself white in the rain, with all of Paris spread out beneath its terrace.
- 3Rue du Chevalier de la BarreThe hill’s wall-to-wall souvenir street, named for a young man who became a symbol of free thought.
- 4Square NadarA tiny park with a peek of the Eiffel Tower, named for the photographer whose studio launched the Impressionists.
- 5Place du TertreThe cobbled square where licensed artists still paint at their easels, as they have for over a century.
- 6Le Bateau-LavoirThe freezing, ramshackle studio where Picasso painted the canvas that broke every rule and lit the fuse of Cubism.
- 7Le Passe-MurailleA bronze man climbing right out of a wall — Montmartre’s favorite tall tale, his hand rubbed gold for luck.
- 8Moulin de la GaletteA surviving 17th-century windmill turned Sunday dance-hall — the swirl of light Renoir froze in a masterpiece.
- 9La Maison RoseThe most-photographed corner on the hill — a rosy little Catalan café made famous by the painter Utrillo.
- 10Musée de Montmartre & Renoir GardensThe oldest house on the hill, where Renoir and Suzanne Valadon worked, with gardens overlooking the vineyard.
- 11Clos Montmartre vineyardA real working vineyard in the heart of Paris — living proof the hill was once all vines, windmills and farmland.
- 12Au Lapin AgileThe cottage cabaret where penniless geniuses sang and argued — and a donkey once fooled the Paris art world.
Florence: Cradle of the Renaissance
- 1The Duomo & BaptisteryBrunelleschi’s record-breaking brick dome and Ghiberti’s gilded "Gates of Paradise" crown the piazza where the Renaissance found its boldest expression in stone, marble and bronze.
- 2Piazza della SignoriaFlorence’s grand civic square, where Michelangelo’s David once stood guard over the town hall and Cellini’s bronze Perseus still presides over an open-air gallery of Renaissance masterpieces.
- 3Il PorcellinoRub the snout of a glowing bronze wild boar and drop a coin through the grate for good luck and a return to Florence — a beloved ritual beneath a Renaissance silk-market loggia.
- 4Ponte VecchioFlorence’s oldest bridge — a 1345 medieval survivor lined with glittering goldsmiths’ shops and topped by the Medici’s secret corridor, the lone Arno crossing left standing in 1944.
- 5Pitti PalaceA banker’s giant stone palace, built to outshine the Medici, that the Medici then bought and turned into their grand-ducal home stuffed with Renaissance masterpieces.
- 6Piazzale MichelangeloThe whole of Renaissance Florence unfolds from one hilltop terrace — Brunelleschi’s dome towering over the rooftops, the Arno and its bridges below, and a bronze David standing guard.
Dublin: Vikings, Rebels & the Written Word
- 1Trinity College & the CampanileIreland’s oldest university packs 430 years of literary giants, free-to-roam cobbled squares, and a bell-tower curse into one unforgettable quadrangle.
- 2The Molly Malone StatueDublin’s unofficial anthem stands cast in bronze — a fishmonger heroine wheeling her cart while the whole city still sings her chorus.
- 3Grafton Street & St Stephen’s GreenA triumphal arch nicknamed “Traitors’ Gate” guards a Guinness-funded park where 1916 rebels dug trenches — and both armies paused daily so the keeper could feed the ducks.
- 4Dublin Castle & the Statue of JusticeEight hundred years of power behind one gateway — King John’s 1204 fortress became the seat of British rule, watched over by a golden Justice who turned her back on Dublin.
- 5Christ Church CathedralA Viking king’s 1,000-year-old cathedral looms over Winetavern Street, joined to the old Synod Hall by a fairy-tale covered stone bridge built with Victorian whiskey money.
- 6Temple Bar & the Wall of FameDublin’s cobbled cultural quarter — saved from becoming a bus depot in the 1980s and now packed with galleries, buskers, and a wall of Irish music legends.
- 7The Ha’penny BridgeDublin’s beloved 1816 cast-iron footbridge earned its nickname from the half-penny toll charged to cross it for over a century.
- 8The GPO & the SpireBullet-scarred columns of the 1916 Easter Rising headquarters stand face to face with the 120-meter stainless-steel Spire on Dublin’s main boulevard.
- 9The Famine MemorialRowan Gillespie’s bronze figures walk the Liffey quay where Famine emigrants boarded ships for North America — with a famine ship’s replica moored just downstream.
Madrid: Kings, Plazas & the Golden Age
- 1Puerta del SolThe half-moon plaza at the dead center of Spain — a sidewalk plaque marks the zero point of every national road, and Madrid’s bronze bear-and-strawberry-tree symbol stands guard.
- 2Plaza MayorA grand arcaded square built for a Golden-Age king, where a painted bakery façade, a bronze horseman and four centuries of markets, festivals and royal pageantry share one enclosed stage.
- 3Mercado de San MiguelA jewel-box of 1916 wrought iron and glass where Madrid’s old market has been reborn as a glowing hall of jamón, tapas and Spanish delicacies you taste on the spot.
- 4Plaza de la VillaOne of Madrid’s oldest squares, where a Baroque town hall and a 15th-century stone tower frame a perfectly preserved pocket of the Golden-Age capital.
- 5Almudena CathedralA cathedral that looks ancient but was only finished in 1993 — consecrated by the Pope, dedicated to Madrid’s patron Virgin, and built with a face that mirrors the Royal Palace across the square.
- 6The Royal PalaceOne of Europe’s largest royal palaces, with roughly 3,400 rooms, rose in the 1700s on the ashes of the Habsburg fortress that burned in 1734, and still hosts Spain’s grandest state ceremonies.
- 7Plaza de OrienteA stately garden square where a stone procession of Spanish kings and queens flanks a daring bronze rider whose horse rears on two legs, framed by the Royal Palace and the opera house.
Munich: Crowns, Clockwork & Churches
- 1OdeonsplatzA king’s Italian-style hall guarded by stone lions faces a glowing yellow Baroque church, framing the open square where Bavaria’s royal city shows off its grandest face.
- 2The ResidenzThe 400-year home of Bavaria’s kings hides four bronze lions whose shields are rubbed gold by luck-seekers — and the lion is the very symbol of Bavaria.
- 3The FrauenkircheMunich’s brick-Gothic cathedral crowns the skyline with twin green onion-dome towers, shelters the tombs of Bavaria’s royal Wittelsbachs, and guards a footprint the Devil supposedly stamped in the floor.
- 4MarienplatzMunich’s grand central square has staged dukes’ tournaments and daily life for over 850 years, crowned by a neo-Gothic town hall whose chiming Glockenspiel sends 32 figures dancing and jousting overhead.
- 5The HofbräuhausA Bavarian duke’s 16th-century court brewery that grew into the world’s most famous beer hall, ringing with brass-band folk music under painted royal ceilings.
- 6ViktualienmarktTwo centuries of Bavarian food — cheese, flowers, sausages and pretzels — sprawl across an open-air square crowned by a blue-and-white maypole hung with the city’s old guild trades.
- 7The AsamkircheBehind a deceptively narrow shopfront hides an explosion of gold, marble and frescoes that two artist brothers built as their own private church — a tiny, breathtaking masterpiece of southern-German Baroque.
Map data © OpenStreetMap contributors. The game's narration and music are generated with AI.
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