The Philosophers' Football Match Multi-Cache

The Philosophers’ Football Match

The Philosophers’ Football Match is a Monty Python sketch depicting a football match in the Olympiastadion at the 1972 Munich Olympics between philosophers representing Greece and Germany. Starring in the sketch are Archimedes (John Cleese), Socrates (Eric Idle), Hegel (Graham Chapman), Nietzsche (Michael Palin), Marx (Terry Jones) and Kant (Terry Gilliam).

Confucius is the referee and Thomas Aquinas and St. Augustine (sporting haloes) serve as linesmen. The German manager is Martin Luther. As play begins, the philosophers ponder their theories while walking on the pitch in circles. Franz Beckenbauer, the sole genuine footballer on the pitch and a “surprise inclusion” in the German team, is left more than a little confused.

The streets of the Palau-saverdera urbanisation “Bellavista” are named after philosophers and three of the German team are represented along with two Spanish, (José d’Ortega y Gasset and Marcelino Menéndez y Pelayo) and one Catalan, Jaime Luciano Balmes, born in Vic 28/08/1810 and died in Barcelona.

THE START POINT IS THE ROUNDABOUT IN BELLAVISTA N42º18.345 E3º09.208

You need to go to the streets named after the German philosophers for the clues.

Go to the street of the philosopher who is arguing that “the reality is merely an a priori adjunct of non-naturalistic ethics”. Here you will find a sign. You need to record the number obscured by the letter.

 

Go to the street of the player numbered 10 on the starting line-up but actually wears number 5 on his shirt.  Only one  number to find here.

 

Go to the street of the player whose arguement, via the categorical imperative holds that ontologically it exists only in the imagination, Numbers to be collected from both signs.

Use the numbers to complete the coordinates of the cache:

N42ºAD.ICF E3º HE.GJK

 

(I’m sorry this is only in English but it proved too complicated for even Google’s translations tools).