Every summer, the city of Águeda, Portugal, transforms into a magnificent art festival, with colorful umbrellas hanging over the streets, decorated lampposts, murals, and other art installations throughout this picturesque city.

In Águeda: City of Umbrellas, players take on the role of festival performers, decorating the city streets with their own colorful umbrellas to attract the most tourists. As a performer, you must balance requests from the city, shops, and tourists to create the most stunning umbrella display.

Players choose tiles from a central board and place them in a row on their own street board. After placing their umbrellas, select one or two tourists and move them to one of your three rows of umbrellas to score that row. Careful placement of your umbrellas unlocks sections of your tourist card, adding more tourists to your pool for placement on your board. Once a player fills their board, the score for their umbrella arrangement is based on both the standard board scoring rules and the common "Shop" cards with various scoring objectives.

Águeda: City of Umbrellas is a game for 1 to 5 players inspired by the real-life annual festival in Águeda, Portugal, called the Umbrella Project. 25th Century Games collaborated with the Umbrella Sky Project to create the game's box art, integrate their annual tourist maps into the game, and provide cultural consultancy.