Free Walking Sightseeing Tour #12 in Stockholm, Sweden
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12.7 km
313 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: Birger Jarls kenotaf
Birger Jarl's kenotaf is a sculpture and a shin, a so -called kenotaf, over Birger Jarl at Stockholm City Hall. Birger Jarl's Kenotaf was embodied by the town hall architect Ragnar Östberg together with the sculptor Gustaf Sandberg.
Sight 2: Birger Jarls torn
Birger Jarls torn is a defensive tower on the northwest corner of Riddarholmen, an islet in Gamla Stan, the old town of Stockholm.
Sight 3: Birger Jarl
Book Free Tour*The statue of Birger Jarl is a statue depicting the Earl of Sweden and the regent Earl of Birger. The statue stands on Birger Jarl's Square on Riddarholmen in Stockholm. The statue was created by sculptor Bengt Erland Fogelberg and was unveiled on 21 October 1854.
Sight 4: Axel Oxenstierna
The statue of Axel Oxenstierna is a statue depicting the Swedish Chancellor Axel Oxenstierna. The statue stands in the courtyard of the House of Nobility facing Riddarfjärden in Stockholm. The statue was created by sculptor John Börjeson and unveiled in 1890.
Sight 5: Bonde Palace
The Bonde Palace is a palace in Gamla stan, the old town in central Stockholm, Sweden. Located between the House of Knights (Riddarhuset) and the Chancellery House (Kanslihuset), it is, arguably, the most prominent monument of the era of the Swedish Empire (1611–1718), originally designed by Nicodemus Tessin the Elder and Jean De la Vallée in 1662-1667 as the private residence of the Lord High Treasurer Gustaf Bonde (1620–1667) it still bears his name, while it accommodated the Stockholm Court House from the 18th century and since 1949 houses the Swedish Supreme Court. On the south side of the building is the street Myntgatan and the square Riddarhustorget, while the alleys Riddarhusgränd and Rådhusgränd are passing on its western and eastern sides.
Sight 6: Bågspännaren
The bow tensioner is a sculpture by Christian Eriksson, which shows a man cocking a crossbow.
Sight 7: Finnish Church
The Finnish Church is a church building in Gamla stan in Stockholm, Sweden. Belonging to the Stockholm Finnish Parish of the Church of Sweden, it was opened in 1725 after the Lilla Bollhuset building had been rebuilt into a church.
Wikipedia: Finnish Church, Stockholm (EN), Website, Heritage Website
Sight 8: Axel Oxenstiernas palats
Axel Oxenstierna palace is a Mannerist architecture style building situated in the Old Town of Stockholm, Sweden.
Sight 9: Dance Museum
Dansmuseet is a museum for the performing and visual arts located in Stockholm, Sweden. Opened in 1953 in the basement of the Royal Swedish Opera, it originally displayed a large collection of dance-related art that belonged to Rolf de Maré, a leader of the Ballets suédois in Paris from 1920 to 1925. In 1969, a library, named after the Swedish dancer, Carina Ari was endowed by Ari and attached to the museum with Bengt Hägar as its curator. The library contains the most comprehensive archive of literature on dance in Northern Europe. The museum is currently located at Drottninggatan 17. The library, receives no state funds, as it is privately endowed. The majority of its collection are materials from Western Europe which date between 1500 and 1850, a journal collection dating at the turn of the 20th century, and a video library of thousands of films. There is also a large collection of books on Russian dance. As of 2017, the director of the museum is Eva-Sofi Ernstell.
Sight 10: Swedish Army Museum
The Swedish Army Museum is a museum of military history located in the district of Östermalm in Stockholm. It reopened in 2002 after a long period of closure, and was awarded the title of the best museum of Stockholm in 2005. Its displays illustrate the military history of Sweden, including its modern policy of neutrality, and of the Swedish Army.
Sight 11: Elimkyrkan
The Elim Church was a free church at Storgatan 26 in Östermalm in Stockholm, Sweden.
Sight 12: Berwaldhallen
The Berwald Hall is a concert hall situated in a park landscape at Dag Hammarskjölds väg 3 in the Östermalm district of Stockholm, Sweden. Construction on the building began in 1976 based on a design by architects Erik Ahnborg and Sune Lindström. The hall is shaped as a hexagon.
Sight 13: The English Church
St Peter and St Sigfrid's Church, often referred to locally as the English Church, is an Anglican church in Stockholm, Sweden. It was built in the 1860s for the British congregation in the city and was originally located on Rörstrandsgatan in the Norrmalm district before being moved, stone by stone, to the Diplomatstaden area of Östermalm in 1913.
Sight 14: FN-monumentet
The UN Monument is a memorial dedicated to the Swedes who have died in UN service, located on the shores of Djurgårdsbrunnsviken, near the Maritime Museum, at Gärdet in Stockholm. The monument was inaugurated in 1995. On 29 May, Veterans' Day is commemorated annually in connection with the UN monument and the veterans' memorial Restare, which was built in 2013 nearby.
Sight 15: Museum of Ethnography
The Museum of Ethnography, in Stockholm, Sweden, is a Swedish science museum. It houses a collection of about 220,000 items relating to the ethnography, or cultural anthropology, of peoples from around the world, including from China, Korea, South and Southeast Asia, the Pacific region, the Americas and Africa. The museum is situated in Museiparken at Gärdet in Stockholm. Since 1999, it is a part of Swedish National Museums of World Culture and is also hosting the Sven Hedin Foundation. The museum is open Tuesday to Sunday 11:00AM – 5:00 PM, and Wednesdays 11:00 AM – 8:00 PM and is closed on Mondays.
Sight 16: Biological Museum
Biologiska museet is a museum located in Djurgården in Stockholm. It exhibits a collection of stuffed European birds and mammals in dioramas. Some of the diorama backgrounds were created by artist Bruno Liljefors, known for his dramatic paintings of Scandinavian wildlife. The museum was built in 1893 after a design by architect Agi Lindegren who was inspired by medieval Norwegian stave churches.
Sight 17: Bernhard Ingelsson
The rescue cruiser Bernhard Ingelsson is a museum ship at the Vasa Museum in Stockholm.
Sight 18: Bünsowska huset
The Bünsow House is an exclusive apartment block located on Strandvägen 29–33 in Östermalm in central Stockholm, built in 1886–1888 for the timber magnate and millionaire Friedrich Bünsow after drawings by the architects Isak Gustaf Clason (facades) and Anders Gustaf Forsberg (the plans). The building complex occupies the entire Korporalen block, which is surrounded by Riddargatan to the north, Grev Magnigatan to the west, Torstenssonsgatan to the east and Strandvägen to the south. The property is blue-labeled by the City Museum in Stockholm, which is the strongest protection and means "that the buildings are judged to have particularly high cultural-historical values".
Sight 19: Finngrundet
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