Don Quixote Quest Experience in Madrid
By Questo
Free cancellation available
per adult*
*Get a lower price by selecting multiple adult tickets
Features
- Free cancellation available
- 2h
- Mobile voucher
- Instant confirmation
Overview
Discover the magical back streets of Madrid’s most intriguing areas. You’ll visit the monumental spots for famous authors and artists such as Ernest Hemingway, Francisco de Goya, Lope de Vega, and Spain's most beloved and famous author Miguel de Cervantes.
Visit secluded churches, old restaurants, hidden writings, and eclectic plazas known only to those who appreciate the adventure of an off the beaten track.
Are you ready to discover the hidden gems of Madrid?
Highlights:
Visit the oldest known restaurant in the world
Discover the area steeped in literary history
Uncover the hidden burial grounds for Spain’s most famed artists and authors
Try a new type of experience, the perfect mix between a tour, an outdoor escape game, and a treasure hunt.
The city game will take you about 2 hours to complete, but there’s no time limit, so can go at your own pace. You won't need a guide, just download the app, go to the starting point, and begin the adventure.
Activity location
- Plaza Mayor
- Calle Gerona 4,
- 28012, Madrid, Spain
Meeting/Redemption Point
- C. del Marqués Viudo de Pontejos, 17
- 17 Calle del Marqués Viudo de Pontejos
- 28012, Madrid, Comunidad de Madrid, Spain
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Don Quixote Quest Experience in Madrid in English
- 2h
- Opening hours: Sun 12:00 am-11:30 pm
- English
Language options: English
Price details
NZ$17.84 x 1 AdultNZ$17.84
Total
* Select 4 adult tickets to get our lowest price of NZ$8.91 per adult
What's included, what's not
- 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.
- Free for Kids
- Play offline: you DON'T NEED an internet connection to play this city game
- A physical tour guide
Know before you book
- Infants and small children can ride in a pram or stroller
- Service animals allowed
- Public transport options are available nearby
- Suitable for all physical fitness levels
Activity itinerary
Plaza Mayor
- 10m
The Plaza Mayor is a major public space in the heart of Madrid, the capital of Spain. It was once the centre of Old Madrid. It was first built during the reign of Philip III. Only a few streets away is another famous plaza, the Puerta del Sol.
Here you will have to look around to find the answer to our challenge to advance to the new location and learn the storey of this place.
Puerta Cerrada (Pass by)
The complex preserves the name of Puerta Cerrada through which the Christian wall of Madrid was opened here , during the Middle Ages and the Renaissance, and which was demolished in 1569, on the occasion of Isabel de Valois's entry into the city . wife of Felipe II.
Here you will have to look around to find the answer to our challenge to advance to the new location and learn the storey of this place.
Plaza de Jacinto Benavente (Pass by)
The square was created in 1926 as a result of the demolition of several buildings around the Old Customs square and the attached square of La Leña (later Calle de la Bolsa), including the Convent of the Trinitarios Calzados and the fish market of Almidón . After the expansion, the palace of the Five Major Guilds built by Manuel de la Ballina in the 17th century, became the property of the Bank of Isabel II , and when this bank merged with that of San Carlos , it gave rise to the first headquarters of the Bank of Spain . At the beginning of the XXI century it houses the General Directorate of the Treasury.
Here you will have to look around to find the answer to our challenge to advance to the new location and learn the storey of this place.
Church of Saint Sebastian (Pass by)
The Saint Sebastian Church or Iglesia de San Sebastián is a 16th-century church in central Madrid, Spain. It is located on Atocha street, #39. The name arises from a devotional chapel which was found along the route to the Basilica of Nuestra Señora de Atocha, founded in 1541.
Here you will have to look around to find the answer to our challenge to advance to the new location and learn the storey of this place.
Lope de Vega's House-Museum (Pass by)
The House-Museum of Lope de Vega is a writer's house museum in the former home of the "golden age" writer Lope de Vega, located in Madrid, Spain. The sixteenth-century house was bought by the writer in 1610.
Here you will have to look around to find the answer to our challenge to advance to the new location and learn the storey of this place.
Casa de Cervantes (Pass by)
The childhood home of Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra now houses a museum dedicated to this great master of Spanish literature, recreating the customs, traditions, and everyday life of the 16th and 17th centuries.
This museum dedicated to the author of Don Quixote also houses an important bibliographic collection with editions of Cervantes’ work from different periods and in different languages, exhibited in the temporary exhibition room. There is also a consolidated programme of activities such as workshops for children and teenagers, conferences, plays, and musical shows.
Here you will have to look around to find the answer to our challenge to advance to the new location and learn the storey of this place.
Convento de las Trinitarias Descalzas de San Ildefonso (Pass by)
Writer Miguel de Cervantes was buried at the convent in 1616. His remains were temporarily transferred elsewhere in 1673 during rebuilding, and were then lost until forensic scientists discovered them in 2015.
Here you will have to look around to find the answer to our challenge to advance to the new location and learn the storey of this place.
Plaza de Santa Ana (Pass by)
It features monuments to Spanish Golden Age writer Pedro Calderón de la Barca and to the poet and playwright Federico García Lorca and numerous restaurants, cafes and tapas bars, with its terraces covering most of the sides surfaces.
Here you will have to look around to find the answer to our challenge to advance to the new location and learn the storey of this place.
Location
Activity location
- Plaza Mayor
- Calle Gerona 4,
- 28012, Madrid, Spain
Meeting/Redemption Point
- C. del Marqués Viudo de Pontejos, 17
- 17 Calle del Marqués Viudo de Pontejos
- 28012, Madrid, Comunidad de Madrid, Spain
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