Castlevania: Belmont's Curse XP Statues for Fast Levels

Strike an XP Statue with your weapon and it bursts into a large chunk of experience for Rose in Castlevania Belmont’s Curse. Our maps place 77 of them across nine maps, with 23 in Paris Streets alone and most of the rest spread through the Catacombs, the Main Hall, and the Library. The densest early cluster runs up the Prison Tower and down into the sewers, so begin with the Castlevania Belmont’s Curse Paris Streets map of the Prison Tower.

Castlevania Belmont’s Curse XP Statue guide location screenshot


Alexandru Popescu smashed all 77 while building Map Master’s maps, and the Castlevania Belmont’s Curse interactive map and checklist ties them to every other collectible. More than a quarter of them are tucked into hidden rooms, so a statue you can see but can’t reach usually means a breakable wall nearby.


How XP Statues Help Rose Level Up in Castlevania Belmont’s Curse


Statues give a lump of XP with no fight attached, which makes them a fast way to catch up before a boss that outpaces you. Levels raise Rose’s ATK and DEF, and the Skill Books that match a level-up push the same two numbers, so statues and books work best together.


Get close enough for a weapon swing, since a melee hit is what breaks them, not a spell or a thrown cross. The Entrance Corridor’s eastern statue is the awkward case: you reach it mid-dash from a Luminous Anchor Portrait and have to strike as you close in. Levels are reported not to raise maximum health, so Brave Heart Fragments are how that bar grows.


Every XP Statue Location in Castlevania Belmont’s Curse, Region by Region


Paris Streets has 23 statues, nearly a third of the set, from the Prison Tower and the Court of Miracles down to the Abandoned Sewers and the Street of the Tomb Masons. The Catacombs of Paris map of the Blood Pits and the Main Hall map of the Grand Hall cover the next two clusters, 13 statues each, with five in the Grand Hall alone.


The Library and Holy Innocents’ Cemetery add nine apiece. The Library map of the Natural Philosophy Shelves covers a pair near the star jumps, and the Holy Innocents’ Cemetery map of the Memorial for the Dead covers two more past the spikes and a gargoyle. The Castlevania Belmont’s Curse Morgue map adds two, and the Seer’s Hovel and the Prison Tower’s Guard Level have one each.


XP Statues That Need the Arcane Whip, Holy Light, or a Star Jump


About 20 statues need a Luminous Anchor swing or a grapple, and those wait for The Fallen’s Arcane Whip reward. The Path of the Rat and Sewer Reservoir statues are the first you’ll notice out of reach, and the upper Entrance Corridor one asks you to whip the enemy beside it and pull yourself up.


The Collapsed Path of Orpheus ledge is behind a Granite Wall, so it waits for Holy Light after Joan’s fight. The Astronomer’s Office statue comes later still, because it needs the Large Star Jump that appears once you work through the Library’s star and globe puzzles.


The Hardest XP Statues to Reach in Castlevania Belmont’s Curse


Eastern Access Shaft #5 is the toughest statue to reach. It takes a Pressure Plate, the right drawbridge positions, and a quick hop off a moving trap, and the Clock Tower map of the Eastern Access Shaft places all five of the shaft’s statues. The fourth is under a drawbridge that the eastern Pressure Plate moves out of the way.


Five statues wait behind locked doors, in the Path of the Abyss, the Central Sewer Drain, the Bridge of the Millers, the Burned District, and the Court of Miracles. The Blood Pits hide two behind cracked walls and the Gallery of Teeth one, a few of the many XP Statues in secret rooms, and every Hidden Area you open counts toward the Progress percentage.


When to Break XP Statues in Castlevania Belmont’s Curse


Smash every statue on your path as you go, since a level gained early helps through every fight after it. The Prison Tower area alone has seven, a solid boost before Joan, and Paris Streets and the Catacombs together give you 36, the biggest return for short detours.


Come back for the gated ones in two sweeps. The anchor and grapple statues open after The Fallen, and the Granite Wall ledge and the Astronomer’s Office follow later, after Joan and the Library puzzles. If a statue is in plain sight but out of reach, check for a cracked wall or an anchor before you assume you need a new ability.

Name Details
Prison Tower XP Statue #4Paris Streets

Found between the wall and a transition door in the middle of the Prison Tower Sub-Area.

Prison Tower XP Statue #5Paris Streets

Found between a drop point platform and a wall on the upper level of the Prison Tower Sub-Area.

Upper Tower XP StatueParis Streets

Found next to a wall toward the top of the Upper Tower. You can reach it after using a series of Luminous Anchors, starting with the one on the Drawbridge.

Catacomb Entrance XP Statue #1Catacombs of Paris

Found in the hidden area on the western side of the Catacomb Entrance Sub-Area.

Catacomb Entrance XP Statue #2Catacombs of Paris

Found in the hidden area in the southwestern corner of the Catacomb Entrance Sub-Area.

Path of the Abyss XP StatueCatacombs of Paris

Found behind the locked iron door on the eastern side in the area with the two wheels with blades.

Charnel Galleries XP StatueCatacombs of Paris

Found next to a green sign in the bottom right corner of the Charnel Galleries Sub-Area.

Reliquary XP StatueNotre-Dame

Found in front of the iron door on the eastern side of the Reliquary Sub-Area. To reach it, you require Double Jump and Aerial Rush.

Gallery of Teeth XP Statue #1Catacombs of Paris

Found behind the breakable wall in the Gallery of Teeth Hidden Area.

Gallery of Teeth XP Statue #2Catacombs of Paris

Found next to a slide point on the western side of the Gallery of Teeth Sub-Area.

Chamber of Whispers XP StatueCatacombs of Paris

Found on the lower level of the Chamber of Whispers, after going through the transition door in the Hidden Area.

Jaws of Limbo XP StatueCatacombs of Paris

Found past the slide point next to the blade wheel on the western side of the Jaws of Limbo.

Apse XP Statue #1Notre-Dame

Found on the upper level of the Apse Sub-Area. To reach it, you require Double Jump and Aerial Rush.

Apse XP Statue #2Notre-Dame

Found on the upper level of the Apse Sub-Area. To reach it, you require Double Jump and Aerial Rush.

East Gallery XP Statue #1Notre-Dame

Found on a platform on the eastern side of the East Gallery Sub-Area. To reach it, you must grapple to the nearby gargoyle or destroy the statue from below using a spear-type weapon.

Chapel XP Statue #1Notre-Dame

Found in the Hidden Area in the top right part of the Chapel. To reach it, you require Double Jump and Aerial Rush.

Chapel XP Statue #2Notre-Dame

Found in the Hidden Area in the top left part of the Chapel. To reach it, you require Double Jump and Aerial Rush.

East Gallery XP Statue #2Notre-Dame

Found in the Hidden Area behind the breakable wall on the lower level, in the middle of the East Gallery.

Blood Pits XP Statue #1Catacombs of Paris

Found in the hidden area behind the breakable wall, next to the Falling Platform in the Blood Pits Sub-Area.

Daedalus Crossing XP Statue #2Clock Tower

Found close to the locked door in the Hidden Area on the lower level of the Daedalus Crossing Sub-Area. You need Double Jump to reach it.

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