Free Walking Sightseeing Tour #11 in Stockholm, Sweden
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10.5 km
226 m
Explore Stockholm in Sweden with this free self-guided walking tour. The map shows the route of the tour. Below is a list of attractions, including their details.
Activities in StockholmIndividual Sights in StockholmSight 1: Humlegården
Humlegården is a major park in the district of Östermalm in Stockholm, Sweden. The park borders on Karlavägen in the north, Sturegatan in the east, Humlegårdsgatan in the south and Engelbrektsgatan in the west. It is the location of the Swedish Royal Library.
Sight 2: Farfadern
The Grandfather is a sculpture of a seated elderly man with a boy on his lap, made in plaster by Per Hasselberg in 1885–86.
Sight 3: Höken och duvan
The hawk and pigeon are a fountain sculpture by Torsten Fridh. The sculpture in bronze was placed on a high granite pillar in front of the Daneliuska house at Stureplan in Stockholm in 1990.
Sight 4: Fordon
Fordon is a sculpture by Karl Göte Bejemark at Eriksbergsplan in Stockholm.
Sight 5: Eriksbergsparken
Eriksbergsparken is a park in Östermalm in the informal area of Eriksberg in central Stockholm. The park was laid out in 1920 under the authority of city gardener Mauritz Hammarberg and is adjacent to Eriksbergsplan, formerly Träsktorget. The park is designed as a staircase up to a terrace with plantings and a fountain. Above the park is the building of the Order of Carpenters. On the other side of Birger Jarlsgatan is Karl Staaff's park.
Sight 6: Engelbrekt Church
Engelbrekt Church is a protected church located in the Lärkstaden area of Stockholm, Sweden. Its located at Östermalm and belongs to the Church of Sweden and is parish church for Engelbrekt Parish in the Diocese of Stockholm. It was designed by architect Lars Israel Wahlman in the National Romantic style and completed in 1914. It is one of the largest churches in Stockholm, with 1,400 seats.
Sight 7: Balders Hage
Balder's hage is a park in Lärkstaden in Östermalm, Stockholm, Sweden. The park was part of the city plan for a new residential area in the area around Lärkstaden, which was presented in 1902 by the architect Per-Olof Hallman. Hallman was influenced by the Austrian architect Camillo Sitte's ideas about artistic urban planning. The buildings had to be adapted to the formations of the terrain and the scale was smaller than traditional, with quiet streets, terraces, small squares and parks. The park was named in 1925.
Sight 8: Ellen Keys Park
Ellen Keys Park is a park near Jarlaplan in Östermalm in central Stockholm. The park has an area of 0.5 hectares and stretches between Karlavägen and Birger Jarlsgatan and is bounded to the north by a new residential block and to the south by Borgarskolan.
Sight 9: Jarlaplan
Jarlaplan is an open space and small street in Vasastan in central Stockholm where Birger Jarlsgatan meets Roslagsgatan.
Sight 10: Betlehemskyrkan
Bethlehem Church is the Swedish Evangelical Mission's church in Stockholm, Sweden. The old church building was consecrated in October 1840 as Sweden's first free church building, under the name Engelska kapellet. It was located near Hötorget in Norrmalm, where the second and third Hötorget buildings are now located and was taken over by the Swedish Evangelical Mission in connection with the founding of the organization in 1856. The church was demolished in 1953 in conjunction with the redevelopment of Norrmalm. The new church was consecrated in 1956 at Luntmakargatan in Vasastan.
Sight 11: August Strindberg
Carl Johan Eldh was a Swedish artist and sculptor.
Sight 12: Citykyrkan
Citykyrkan is a Pentecostal church at Adolf Fredriks kyrkogata 10 in Stockholm, a few blocks from Hötorget. The congregation was founded in 1936 as Östermalms Fria Församling. It was for a time affiliated with the Philadelphia congregation. The building, which the congregation purchased in 1940, is an old entertainment venue formerly known as the Phoenix Palace.
Sight 13: Centralbadsparken
Centralbadsparken is one of Stockholm's smallest parks and is located in the Islandet neighborhood on Norrmalm in Stockholm. The block is bounded by Drottninggatan, Adolf Fredriks Kyrkogata, Holländargatan and Olof Palmes gata.
Sight 14: Bonniers konsthall
Bonniers Konsthall is an art hall at Torsgatan in Stockholm, opened in 2006.
Sight 15: Filadelfiakyrkan
Filadelfiakyrkan is a Pentecostal church building at Rörstrandsgatan 7 in Stockholm, Sweden; it was dedicated on 2 November 1930. The building is owned by the Filadelfia Stockholm congregation, the largest congregation in the Swedish Pentecostal movement with about 5,400 members as of 2015. It is also the largest Pentecostal congregation in Europe.
Sight 16: Justitia
The Justice well is a fountain sculpture in City Hall Park outside Stockholm City Hall at Kungsholmen in Stockholm.
Sight 17: Holmiaparken
Holmiaparken is a park on Drottningholmsvägen next to Lindhagensplan in Kristineberg on Kungsholmen in Stockholm. In 2010, the park, which for a long time had no name, was named Holmia Park by Mayor Regina Kevius after the Holmia residential area, which was demolished in the late 1960s.
Sight 18: Fredhällsparken
Fredhällsparken is a park in the district of Fredhäll, in central Stockholm, Sweden. The main part of the park is located north of Fredhäll's buildings in line with Adlerbethsgatan, and below Drottningholmsvägen. The cliff edge in the south down towards Essingesundet is also included in the park, as well as the green areas between the houses in the Träslottet block. From Fredhällsparken, a footpath goes east under the Essingeleden towards Rålambshovsparken. Construction work for the park began in the early 1930s and it took over 30 years to complete.
Sight 19: Kullskolan
Barnhusbarnet 1 is a school property at Nordenflychtsvägen 20-22 next to Kristineberg Castle on northwestern Kungsholmen in Stockholm. The house was built as a girls' home between 1906 and 1907 on the hill south of the castle, which is why it is also called "Kullskolan". The property is green marked by the Stockholm City Museum and was deemed "to be particularly valuable from a historical, cultural-historical, environmental or artistic point of view".
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