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On a stone pavement, artist's documents and tools arranged: architectural sketch with compass, colorful paint palette, newspapers, black mirror, camera and creative supplies.
© Artist's Studio in Bordeaux
View through a golden magnifying glass of a bronze statue in Bordeaux with blurred historic buildings in the background
© Bordeaux Under the Magnifying Glass
Artistic composition featuring a white skull in the foreground, a bronze statue of an 18th-century dressed man in the background, and prison architecture with bars and stone walls in Bordeaux.
© Vanity and Justice: Symbols of Bordeaux
Two women examine a document next to a street bin on the cobbled streets of Bordeaux in the rain.
© Code Case Bordeaux - Urban Consultation
Bronze statue of a 19th-century dressed man in front of a yellow stone facade in Bordeaux, with historical newspapers displayed behind
© Historic Bordeaux statue with period newspapers

Code Case Bordeaux

Code Case is a combination of a treasure hunt and an escape game, inspired by real facts, all packed into one suitcase. You will discover a piece of Bordeaux history through our first scenario: “The Skull of Goya”. Team up, observe and move around the neighborhood where the facts took place, in order to unlock the key elements along your journey, and close the case!

Our games have been designed to be played in small numbers, from 2 to 5 players in cooperation, or from 5 to 10 in competition.

THE SKULL OF GOYA

On April 16, 1828, at 2 o’clock in the morning, the Spanish artist Francisco de Goya passed away in Bordeaux. His funeral took place at Notre-Dame Church, and his body was buried at the Chartreuse Cemetery. In 1880, steps were taken to repatriate the body to Spain. Eight years later, during the exhumation, a big surprise awaited the gravediggers… The skull of Goya had disappeared! Code Case reopens the investigation, and it’s up to you to solve it! This scenario of approximately an hour will have you follow in the footsteps of the Spanish colossus, through the Golden Triangle district of Bordeaux, between the 19th and 21st century …

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Code Case Bordeaux gets its materials from the Gironde recycling centres and reuses as much material as possible in order to limit the pollution caused by buying and manufacturing new material.

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Code Case Bordeaux
Place du Chapelet
33000 BORDEAUX
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