Marco Topo in Aranjuez

Discover Aranjuez by playing

Marco Topo in Aranjuez is an interactive game for family tourism and school visits in this town in the Community of Madrid. The game strengthens Aranjuez as a family destination, which already offers a wide range of cultural, natural and recreational attractions for younger visitors. The adventure consists of three routes through key places in Aranjuez, its gardens and tree-lined avenues. The treasure-hunt challenges are presented in a web app accessed on a mobile phone. Challenge locations are marked on the adventure maps and also geolocated in the online game. The Marco Topo game focuses on one of Aranjuez’s main attractions: its UNESCO World Heritage Cultural Landscape, which includes the historic and artistic ensemble formed by the Royal Palace, surrounding gardens and fountains, tree-lined avenues and the monuments decorating its squares and streets. The urban route visits the exterior of the Royal Palace, the King’s Garden and the main fountains and galleries of the Island Garden and Parterre. It also explores other notable urban monuments such as Plaza de San Antonio, Plaza de la Constitución, the bullring and Godoy Palace. The route devoted to the Prince’s Garden proposes a walk through the most distinctive features of this great historic garden commissioned by Charles IV. Challenges are set at the landing stage, Apollo Fountain, Chinescos Fountain, Swiss Mountain and the great Plátano Padre plane tree. The third Marco Topo route in Aranjuez follows its tree-lined avenues, regarded as an early example of large-scale landscape gardening and one of the distinctive features included in the UNESCO World Heritage Cultural Landscape. These avenues were begun in the 16th century and completed in the 18th century.