Milan Navigli Self-Guided City Exploration Game: Save the Witch

Explore Milan's Navigli district with a self-guided city exploration game, solving puzzles through alleys, bridges, and historic witch-trial sites.

Getting started

After purchase, download the Questo app on your smartphone, make sure you have a mobile internet connection and at least 50% battery, then head to the starting point shown in the app. You can begin the self-guided city exploration game at any hour, using your mobile internet connection as needed. There is no physical tour guide, so you control the pace from your device.

What to expect

Milan Navigli city game

Follow a story-led route through the Navigli canals area as you uncover traces of medieval Milan, heresy trials, and everyday life along the water.

Features

• Take part in a self-guided city exploration game that uses real-world puzzles and clues, turning the streets around the canals into your game board as you progress from one stop to the next.
• Enjoy full flexibility: start at any hour, pause to rest or explore on your own, then resume anytime, with the city game available to book 24/7 and free for kids.
• Visit the “little gate” that guards the medieval walls of the city and continue along those medieval walls as the story reveals how this frontier once protected Milan.
• See the church built right on the spot where the bishop of Milan witnessed a divine event, and compare its sacred setting with nearby locations where heretics and witches were condemned to death.
• Discover the alley where men used to wash the city’s laundry with chimney ash, then follow clues through hidden alleys and bridges that criss-cross the canals.
• Move between the church, the little gate, the medieval walls, the canals, alleys, and bridges as the app narrates a story of courage, magic, and connection set in a moonlit adventure through Milan’s canals.