Outdoor escape room
Blanes, where the Costa Brava begins: a fishing port, a cliff garden, a rock in the sea.
Blanes is the first town of the Costa Brava, and Via Enigma is turning it into an outdoor escape room: the first adventure, The Doors of Blanes, is open now, alongside the City Photo Passport, twenty-six places to collect on your phone, from the Tordera river mouth to Cala Treumal. The town still lives like a fishing port: a fleet that auctions its catch on weekday afternoons, a market on the Passeig de Dintre from Monday to Saturday morning, a medieval gate and the Sa Palomera rock where the wild coast begins. Above the port the Marimurtra garden hangs over the sea and the Sant Joan castle looks down on the bay. Your group starts in the church square at the top of the old town and follows its doors down to the sea.
The port, the old core and the seafront promenade are level ground, close together and good for families and pushchairs.
The fish auction and the Es Portal counters are working places, not a set: the fleet lands its catch on weekday afternoons.
The Sant Joan castle above the port, with free grounds and a tower you can climb in summer, and the Marimurtra garden hanging over the sea.
The Costa Brava International Fireworks Contest fires from the Sa Palomera rock in the last week of July, one show a night.
Walk Blanes from its oldest door, the lords' palace, to its newest, the steel door where the Costa Brava begins. Hunt a goat hidden in a Gothic fountain, choose the pirates' stairs or the last town gate, find the fishermen's gift, and on the rock learn the year the lords made Blanes theirs, and why.
80 min · 2.40 km · €19.90
The Blanes City Photo Passport is open now: twenty-six places, from the Tordera river mouth to Cala Treumal, each one a stamp you earn with your own photo. Collect the market, the port and the castle over a weekend or a whole summer, and earn XP and titles as you go.
26 photo stamps · €7.50
Stamps include: Passeig de Mar promenade, Santa Maria church, Fireworks contest over Sa Palomera, Linnaeus temple at Marimurtra, Font Gòtica (Gothic fountain), Sa Palomera rock.
The botanical garden on the cliff above the port, with the Linnaeus temple over the sea and the Epicurus stairway down through the terraces.
Entry: 14 EUR online, 15 EUR at the gate (2026)
Online on the garden's own site or at the gate. Open daily, with shorter hours in winter; closed around Christmas and New Year.
The hilltop castle over the bay, a climb of about 150 m above the port, with the whole coast from the Tordera to Lloret at your feet.
Entry: Free grounds; climbing the tower costs 2 EUR in summer (2026)
No ticket for the grounds, open 6:00 to 23:00 from April to September and 8:00 to 21:00 from October to March. The tower ticket is sold at the castle, Thursday to Sunday from late June to the end of September.
Yes: an escape room with Blanes as the room, played on your own phones through the real streets, with no locked door. The first adventure, The Doors of Blanes, is open now: the puzzles are the real doors, years and stones of the old town, read from the church square down to the sea. Alongside it you have the City Photo Passport: twenty-six places to collect on your phone, 7 EUR.
Only adventures that show time slots need booking; the others start whenever you like, day or evening. The passport never needs a booking.
Rain during a game is part of the game and you can finish it. With no booking, simply wait for a better moment to press Start. If the rain caught you mid-game, tell support where you were and we will see what can be done.
Yes. The seafront, the market and the port are flat and close together, so the passport works well with young children; save the castle climb for older kids. The Doors of Blanes is designed for players from age 12.
About 1 h 15 at a walking pace, over 2.4 km: from the church square at the top of the old town, gently down through the lanes and along the seafront. It has no time slots, so there is nothing to book: your group of up to five starts whenever you like.
Pick an adventure, gather your group and step out onto the streets. The town is the game board and the first puzzle is a short walk away.
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