Brussels Self-Guided Historical City Exploration Game

Explore historical Brussels through a self-guided mobile app city game, solving clues at your own pace in around 2 hours.

Getting started

Download the self-guided mobile app city game to your smartphone and make sure you have a mobile internet connection. Start the experience at any hour that suits you by opening the app and launching the game in Brussels. There is no physical tour guide or check-in, so you can begin walking as soon as you are ready.

What to expect

Historical Brussels city route

This experience takes place across central Brussels, where you follow clues and stories that reveal the city’s origins and key landmarks as part of the city game.

Features

• Your self-guided mobile app city game access lets you explore with no guide needed, using your phone to unlock directions, puzzles, and stories as you move through the city.
• Along the route, you trace the origins of Brussels, including its port and the first city walls, discovering how the city began while you stand where these early defenses once stood.
• Time in the noble quarters includes seeing the Royal Palace and walking around the Grand Sablon area, noted for its stately atmosphere and historic surroundings.
• You pass huge monuments such as the Palais de Justice, then continue to Jeanneke, presented here as the sister of a famous child statue, adding a playful stop to your route.
• A section at the Poelaert viewpoint gives you a wide city panorama, so you can look out over Brussels after visiting the Palais de Justice area.
• The path then leads you along Mont des Arts, where you stroll through this central zone before reaching the area around the Monnaie Opera to uncover what happened at this historic venue.
• The city game is self-paced and takes around 2 hours to complete, and you can start at any time, pause and resume whenever you like, with 24/7 bookable city game access that is free for kids.