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An open, free online world with all 388 municipalities of Extremadura. Get to know them, play and meet people. We’re starting with Guareña.
Every volume you see comes from the Catastro (Spain’s land registry), with its real footprint and its real number of floors. Storks nest on the tower of Santa María, as they do on so many bell towers in Extremadura.
Narrow streets that hold on to the shade, patios, farmyards and, all around, the patchwork of the Vegas Altas del Guadiana: olive groves in neat rows, vineyards, cereal fields and irrigated land.
Next door are Don Benito, Villanueva de la Serena, Valdetorres, Cristina and Manchita. Each one has its own tower, its own festival, its nicknames and its way of speaking.
When a town empties, it isn’t only the people who leave. Its festivals go too, and its nicknames, its street games and its way of naming things. We build a living copy of each one, so it can be visited, played and lived in from anywhere in the world.
Churches, squares, chapels and streets rebuilt from public data and photography. The town’s memory, told by its own people.
Quests, live festivals, challenges between neighbouring towns and a passport that gets stamped town by town.
An open place for young people from here and for those who left: friends, cousins, grandchildren and curious people from anywhere.
388 Pueblos is the idea of Ana Pérez Toledo, an entrepreneur from Guareña. Her generation spends hours in digital worlds that have nothing to do with where they come from. She asked herself why one of those worlds couldn’t be her own town.
That’s where the project comes from: to recreate, carefully and accurately, the reality and character of Extremadura’s towns in an open digital universe. So they are not forgotten, so they help us plan them better, and so anyone, wherever they live, can come in, play and stay.
“I don’t want my town to be just a memory. I want it to be a place you can come back to from anywhere.”
Ana Pérez Toledo · founder
Each municipality is built in layers: data first, the game on top, people all around and, finally, decisions.
The town as it really is. Building volumes from the Catastro, LiDAR terrain from the IGN (Spain’s National Geographic Institute) and photogrammetry of façades, churches and corners. Measurable and easy to update.
A place where things happen. You get in from your browser or your phone, with nothing to install. Quests, mini-games, events and a calendar of live festivals.
Young locals, Extremadurans living elsewhere and players from any country. Avatars, groups for each town, moderated chat and safe spaces for minors.
Test before you build. Simulate a pedestrian zone, the shade of new trees, a market or the restoration of a house, and ask residents before deciding.
Every town you visit stamps your passport. When you go there for real, you get stamped in its square as well. Collecting the whole of Extremadura is the long game.
When the town is celebrating, so is the world. Open-air dances, processions and country pilgrimages, lived online by those who can’t be there.
Quests written with each town’s elders: old trades, nicknames, legends and places that no longer appear on any map.
The friendly rivalry neighbouring towns have always had, with weekly challenges and rankings by district.
Wherever you press Play or Walk around, you land in Guareña: its real streets, its locals and its first quests. The other towns will join one by one.
Vote for the town that gets modelled next. We take the votes to each town council as proof that people are waiting.
388 Pueblos is an open-source project. For now, everything is free. Entering the towns and spending time with other people always will be.
Access to the 388 towns, and spending time with other people inside them, is and always will be completely free. So are many activities and games.
Right now, nothing costs money. Later on there may be some paid services or games inside a town, always alongside many free ones and without shutting anyone out. The project is funded by the town councils that choose to wake their town up.
The code and the towns are open. Anyone can suggest improvements and edit their town: its streets, its places, its stories and its festivals.
See the code on GitHubAll 388 already have an automatic twin built from Catastro buildings. Tap any of them to enter its twin.
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Tap any name to see it on the map. They’re all here, from Abadía to Zorita.
First, prove that it works in Guareña and bring together a real community. With players on board, go town by town with the councils that want to join.
Indicative timeline. Each phase depends on the community we build and on funding.
Every change to the website and the game is out in the open, because all the code is open. Here’s the latest, straight from the repositories.
Your town is already built in 3D from Catastro data, and anyone can go in and see it. Waking it up does much more than offer a game: it documents heritage, helps with planning decisions, attracts visitors and brings the town back to those who live far away.
Churches, chapels, houses and streets recorded in 3D before they change or disappear.
Try out building works, a pedestrian zone or tree planting on the real town and show it to residents.
A reason for young people to stay connected, and for those who left to come back, even if only in summer.
A gateway to festivals, routes and local produce for people who would never have found the town.
Prices exclude VAT. Each service fits within a minor services contract (article 118 of Spain’s Public Sector Contracts Act, Ley 9/2017): a fixed payment to model the town and, if the council wishes, the annual dashboard fee and any changes it commissions. Because the project is open source and access is free, whatever a council funds stays available to everyone.
On the 388 Pueblos Discord, people meet up to play, suggest ideas for each town and follow the build log live. One channel per district, moderation from day one and clear rules designed for young people.
For now, everything is free. Entering the 388 towns and spending time with other people will always stay free; in the future there may be some paid services or games inside a town, alongside many free ones.
Residents and a town council. Each town has its own queue: when it reaches 100 people signed up, we take that data to its town council so it can commission the work. Sign up by choosing your town, and tell your friends and family.
On the 388 Pueblos Discord, with a channel for each district, the build log and a space to suggest ideas. You’ll find it in the “Community” section.
Yes. We’re testing with a waiting list: sign up with your email and you get into the Guareña beta straight away.
Yes. 388 Pueblos is open source: the code is licensed under MIT, and the towns and their content under CC BY-SA 4.0. In the repository we explain how to propose changes to your town. The goal is for you to be able to do it without knowing how to code, too.
Your town is already built automatically. Waking it up in detail (square, church, streets, quests and festivals) is done together with the town council: look at the options above or ask us for a presentation.
We only store your email and, if you want, your alias and your town, to keep you posted about the project. We explain it in the privacy policy.
We’re testing. Join the waiting list and get into the Guareña beta right now; we’ll let you know about news and about every town that wakes up. Getting in is free and always will be.
Each town wakes up when 100 locals have signed up: we take those numbers to its town council.