Free Porto Scavenger Hunt: For Tourists and Locals

Porto has so many sights to see, and this free scavenger hunt will lead you to all the best places, local haunts, and have you keeping an eye out for what makes Porto unique! Below, is our free scavenger hunt, where you can click or tap each item to mark it as complete. And for the planners out there, you can drag and drop rows to change the order in case you want to map out everything in advance.

Read further for more information on how to play as well as additional scavenger hunt options we offer.

Scavenger Hunt Checklist for Porto

ItemPoints
Livraria Lello3
Ribeira Square4
Dom Luís I Bridge3
Porto Cathedral5
São Bento Railway Station2
Clerigos Tower4
Palácio da Bolsa3
Porto Wine Cellars4
Foz do Douro2
Casa da Música4
Mercado do Bolhão5
Crystal Palace Gardens3
Porto City Hall2
Jardins do Palácio de Cristal5
Casa do Infante2
Miradouro da Vitória4
Church of São Francisco5
Serralves Museum of Contemporary Art2
Rua Santa Catarina4
Palácio de Cristal3
Passeio das Virtudes5
Ponte da Arrábida3
Soares dos Reis National Museum2
Casa do Douro4
Casa da Música Metro Station3
Miragaia District5
Porto Botanical Garden4
Praça da Liberdade2
Jardim das Virtudes3

How to Play

For this Porto scavenger hunt, we’ve come up with a list of things to see in the city. Some of them are popular tourist attractions while others are more local secrets. For each item, you (or your team) will need to take a picture that shows both you and the listed item. For each photo you take, you’ll get the corresponding amount of points listed to the side of that item. 

At the end of the allotted time for the scavenger hunt, you can see what level of rank you’ve earned and whichever team has the most points wins! You’ll be allowed to go to City Hall and ask for a key to the city. (We haven’t actually made any arrangements, but it doesn’t hurt to ask, right?)

Additional considerations for how you play:

  1. We recommend three hours for the scavenger hunt just to have a limit on the time you’re focused on this activity, but that’s up to you.
  2. If you’re traveling as part of a group and don’t want to split up, we’d recommend treating this as a game of I-Spy and awarding points to whoever in the group spots the item first or takes the first photo.
  3. It’s up to you how tough you want to make it with respect to awarding points just for seeing something, or if you have to go inside, or taking it further and requiring even more depending on the location.

Score and Rankings

0-10: Did you even leave your hotel?
11-20: Business trip traveler
21-30: Frequent business trip traveler
31-40: Tourist
41-50: Lives in the next city over
51-60: Over-caffeinated tourist
61-70: Recent transplant
71-80: Local
81-90: Actually grew up here and has always lived here
91-100: Mayor

Think you’re the best ever? Let us know how you did in the comments (and how long it took you) and sign up for our newsletter to be alerted of other scavenger hunts, our challenges designed for only the top finishers, and more.

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