Six to eight teams, one phone each, 60 to 120 minutes on foot. €5 per pupil, teachers free.
More than 3,000 classes and groups have played Questo together.
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We are a group of language students and we played the game with our teacher: a great and fun way to practise, and learn interesting stuff about our city that we didn't know.
Perfect with a group of A Level pupils. Loved it.
Quests for classes
A school day with Questo in Venice is spent on foot in the San Marco district, between St Mark's Square, Campo Santo Stefano, La Fenice and the Rialto Bridge, with one route going on to Santa Maria Formosa and San Zaccaria in Castello. For Key Stage 2, Venice Holy Heist A Father’s Last Hope starts at Ponte della Paglia and ends at the Doge's Palace in under an hour. Key Stage 3 classes can play The Lost Gold of Venice. Older pupils can take on Haunted Venice: Carnival of Shadows or Murder Mystery: Death in the Shadows in Venice. Together the quests cover ages 8 to 18.
57 min · 1.8 km · 11 stops
Starts at Ponte della Paglia
The heart of the Venetian Republic: Doge's Palace, St Mark's Basilica, Clock Tower and the Columns of St Mark and St Theodore
90 min · 2.7 km · 15 stops
Starts at Point 1
Map reading and orientation over a 15-stop, 2.7 km route on foot
91 min · 3.1 km · 13 stops
Starts at Piazza San Marco
Venetian theatre at Teatro Goldoni and the Goldoni monument near the Rialto Bridge
90 min · 2 km · 12 stops
Starts at Point 1 - Clock Tower
Deductive reasoning: weighing clues and ruling out suspects as a team
Teams of 3 to 5 share one phone; under-14s need one adult per 2 to 3 teams at agreed checkpoints, 14 to 18 follow school policy.
Venice's 25-person group cap exempts school groups.
Classes walk the car-free centre; ACTV vaporetti are the public transport.
The ACTV Student Group ticket needs at least 10 pupils, a school self-declaration, and the whole group travelling together.
Veritas turnstile toilets cost about 1.50 euros, at Piazzale Roma, Rialto, Accademia, San Marco and Giardini Napoleonici; the station's, by Track 1, cost 1.20 euros.
Museum toilets are often free.
Eat on benches in Giardini Papadopoli near the station or the Giardini in Castello, not on the lawns.
Sitting to eat on steps, bridges or monuments around St Mark's brings fines of 100 to 200 euros.
The Gallerie dell'Accademia (free for under-18s) and the Basilica di San Marco (small fee, book group slots) suit a class.
If rain spoils the day, the quest can be replayed free within 30 days.
Caution: On access-fee days, secondary school groups must register the free 'Sono in gita scolastica' exemption with total numbers; inspectors expect an identifiable group, so each adult should carry the confirmation.
Pupils visit the centre of the Republic's power, including the Doge's Palace, the Porta della Carta, St Mark's Basilica, the Clock Tower, the Campanile and the Columns of St Mark and St Theodore.
Urban geography of a city on water, with campi as public squares and bridges such as the Rialto and Ponte della Paglia as crossing points. Pupils follow routes of 1.8 to 3.1 km through narrow lanes, which builds map reading and orientation.
Teams read the instructions and story text themselves. Venice Holy Heist A Father’s Last Hope can also be played in French, German or Italian, and Murder Mystery: Death in the Shadows in Venice in Italian.
Shared roles and group decisions, weighing up evidence in the murder mystery, and the city's no-sitting and no-eating rules and access fee as a real example of how a city manages visitors.
Price and terms
No minimum group, no time slot.
A class of 30 on one quest: €150.
Choose a questTell us the quest or city, the class size and the dates. We send an invoice to the school.
In short
A school trip to Venice with Questo is a self-guided city quest. Pupils in teams of 3 to 5 follow a route of 11 to 15 stops on foot, solving a puzzle at each, in 55 to 95 minutes. 4 quests suit classes aged 8 to 18. There is no guide and no time slot: the class starts when it arrives. The price is €5 per pupil, and teachers play free.
Pupils are an estimate: groups of four or more teams starting one quest together, at about four pupils a team, across all cities since 2018. Ratings are from players of these quests.
In a randomised study of 10,912 students, a single cultural trip raised critical thinking, tolerance and interest in culture weeks later.
458 Amsterdam pupils walked the medieval city in teams, solving tasks on phones at real locations. They learned more than classmates taught the same topic in lessons.
Source: Huizenga et al., Journal of Computer Assisted Learning, 2009
Across hundreds of studies, game-based learning beats non-game teaching on knowledge and retention; story and playing together are what make the difference.
Source: Sailer and Homner, Educational Psychology Review, 2020
| A Questo quest | A guided walking tour | |
|---|---|---|
| Who is active | Every pupil, in a team | 30 pupils listening to one guide |
| Start | When you arrive | 10:00 sharp |
| Pace | Each team at its own, pause for lunch | The group moves on |
| What the teacher gets before | Plays the whole route free | A confirmation email |
| Price | €5 per pupil, teachers free | €12–€25 per pupil, teachers often charged |
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