Self-guided Sightseeing Tour #5 in Stockholm, Sweden

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Number of sights 30 sights
Distance 9.1 km
Ascend 209 m
Descend 213 m

Experience Stockholm in Sweden in a whole new way with our self-guided sightseeing tour. This site not only offers you practical information and insider tips, but also a rich variety of activities and sights you shouldn't miss. Whether you love art and culture, want to explore historical sites or simply want to experience the vibrant atmosphere of a lively city - you'll find everything you need for your personal adventure here.

Activities in StockholmIndividual Sights in Stockholm

Sight 1: Berwaldhallen

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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.

Wikipedia: Berwald Hall (EN), Website

648 meters / 8 minutes

Sight 2: Gustav Adolfs kyrka

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The Gustaf Adolf Church is a church building in the Gustav Adolf Park at Östermalm in Stockholm, Sweden. Belonging to the Oscar Parish of the Church of Sweden, the church was inaugurated on 6 November 1892 by bishop Gottfrid Billing.

Wikipedia: Gustaf Adolf Church (EN)

518 meters / 6 minutes

Sight 3: Flygarmonumentet

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The Aviator Monument is a statue that stands at Karlaplan in central Stockholm, Sweden. The statue was a gift from the Swedish Aeronautical Society in memory of different Swedish aviation pioneers who fell in both the North Pole expedition of 1898 and in the Swedish aviator era in 1917. The task to build the monument was given to the famous sculptor Carl Milles. The Aviator Monument was finished in 1931.

Wikipedia: Aviator Monument (Stockholm) (EN)

105 meters / 1 minutes

Sight 4: Karlaplan

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Karlaplan

Karlaplan is an open park-plaza area in Östermalm in central Stockholm, Sweden.

Wikipedia: Karlaplan (EN)

566 meters / 7 minutes

Sight 5: Oscar's Church

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Oscar's Church is one of the major churches in Stockholm, Sweden. The three-aisled hall church, which holds 1,200 people, has an 80-metre-high (260 ft) tower in the south-western part of the building. Oscar's Church is located in the south-eastern part of Östermalm, where Storgatan and Narvavägen meet, near the Swedish History Museum. Narvavägen is together with the nearby Strandvägen—from which the church is also visible—one of the city's main boulevards, lined with several residential palaces.

Wikipedia: Oscar's Church (EN), Website, Heritage Website

482 meters / 6 minutes

Sight 6: Bünsowska huset

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The Bünsowska house is an exclusive apartment building located at Strandvägen 29–33 in Östermalm in central Stockholm, built in 1886–1888 for the timber patron and millionaire Friedrich Bünsow according to 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-marked by the City Museum in Stockholm, which is the strongest protection and means "that the buildings are considered to have particularly high cultural-historical values".

Wikipedia: Bünsowska huset (SV), Heritage Website

398 meters / 5 minutes

Sight 7: Elimkyrkan

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Elimkyrkan

Elimkyrkan was a free church on Storgatan 26 in Östermalm in Stockholm, belonging to the Evangelical Free Church and the Uniting Church.

Wikipedia: Elimkyrkan, Stockholm (SV)

432 meters / 5 minutes

Sight 8: Hedvig Eleonora kyrka

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Hedvig Eleonora Church is a church in central Stockholm, Sweden. It is located at Östermalm and belongs to the Church of Sweden and is parish church for Hedvig Eleonora Parish in the Diocese of Stockholm.

Wikipedia: Hedvig Eleonora Church (EN), Heritage Website

202 meters / 2 minutes

Sight 9: Swedish Army Museum

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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.

Wikipedia: Swedish Army Museum (EN), Website

406 meters / 5 minutes

Sight 10: Royal Mews

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The Royal Stables is called H.M. The King's Royal Stables, located in the Kusen block at Väpnargatan 1 and Riddargatan 22, next to the Royal Dramatic Theatre in Östermalm in Stockholm. The building was inaugurated in 1894 by King Oscar II. The Royal Stables are a national listed building.

Wikipedia: Hovstallet, Väpnargatan (SV), Website

217 meters / 3 minutes

Sight 11: Royal Dramatic Theatre

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Royal Dramatic Theatre

The Royal Dramatic Theatre is Sweden's national stage for "spoken drama", founded in 1788. Around one thousand shows are put on annually on the theatre's five running stages.

Wikipedia: Royal Dramatic Theatre (EN), Website, Heritage Website

220 meters / 3 minutes

Sight 12: Birger Jarlspassagen

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Birger Jarlspassagen is Stockholm's smallest and oldest shopping mall, stretching diagonally from Smålandsgatan 10 to Birger Jarlsgatan 9. The passage was inaugurated in 1897 by King Oscar II.

Wikipedia: Birger Jarlspassagen (SV)

289 meters / 3 minutes

Sight 13: Berzelii park

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Berzelii Park is a small park in central Stockholm, Sweden. The park is the location of the China Theater (Chinateatern), and the Berns Salonger Restaurant and Theater.

Wikipedia: Berzelii Park (EN)

68 meters / 1 minutes

Sight 14: China Theatre

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Chinateatern or commonly known as "China" is a private theatre in Stockholm, Sweden, located at Berzelii Park in Stockholm city. Originally built 1928 as a movie theatre but has over the years simultaneously been used as a theatre stage for revues, comedies and musical shows. It was very popular in the 1980s and the stage has during various periods been used by different established Swedish theatres, one being the Royal Dramatic Theatre.

Wikipedia: Chinateatern (EN), Website

231 meters / 3 minutes

Sight 15: Karl XIII

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Karl XIII

Karl XIII's statue stands in Kungsträdgården in Stockholm. It was made by Erik Gustaf Göthe and erected on 5 November 1821 as a monument to King Karl XIII. It was commissioned by Karl XIV Johan, and at his expense. Karl XIV Johan was Karl XIII's adopted child and it was precisely on the anniversary of the adoption that the statue was unveiled. The statue is managed by the National Property Board of Sweden.

Wikipedia: Karl XIII:s staty (SV)

81 meters / 1 minutes

Sight 16: King's Garden

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Kungsträdgården is a park in central Stockholm, Sweden. It is colloquially known as Kungsan.

Wikipedia: Kungsträdgården (EN)

37 meters / 0 minutes

Sight 17: Molins fontän

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Molin's Fountain is a bronze fountain sculpture that stands in Kungsträdgården in Stockholm. The fountain was designed by Johan Peter Molin (1814–1873) and was unveiled on 25 September 1873 after Molin's death.

Wikipedia: Molins fontän (SV)

162 meters / 2 minutes

Sight 18: Karl XII

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160 meters / 2 minutes

Sight 19: Jakobs kyrka

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Jakobs kyrka

Saint James's Church is a church in central Stockholm, Sweden, dedicated to apostle Saint James the Greater, patron saint of travellers. It is often mistakenly called St Jacob's. The confusion arises because Swedish, like many other languages, uses the same name for both James and Jacob.

Wikipedia: Saint James's Church, Stockholm (EN), Heritage Website

199 meters / 2 minutes

Sight 20: Dianafontänen I

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The Diana Fountain, or Diana Fountain, is a bronze and marble sculpture by Carl Milles. The Diana Fountain is available in two designs, the Diana Fountain I was created in 1927–1928 and can be found in the courtyard of the Match Palace in Stockholm, the Diana Fountain II was created in 1929–1930 and can be found as a copy at Skytteholm, Ekerö municipality. On the square in Tomelilla there is a Diana fountain that was donated by Milles to the town when he learned that the town was going to name a street after him as a memory after the Tomelilla exhibition in 1927. In Tomelilla, the sculpture is called Artemis after Diana's Greek counterpart. "Diana" also exists as a solitary figure in bronze, fitted with a skirt.

Wikipedia: Dianafontänen (SV)

331 meters / 4 minutes

Sight 21: Royal Swedish Opera

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Royal Swedish Opera

Royal Swedish Opera is an opera and ballet company based in Stockholm, Sweden.

Wikipedia: Royal Swedish Opera (EN), Website

203 meters / 2 minutes

Sight 22: Kumlienska huset

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Kumlienska huset is a building in Kvarteret Lejonet at Fredsgatan 3 in Norrmalm in Stockholm. In Stockholm's women's fashion, the house was a well-known address, and between 1818 and until the beginning of the 1960s, the exclusive fabric company John V. Löfgren & Co. The property is green-labelled by the City Museum in Stockholm, which means that it is considered "particularly valuable from a historical, cultural-historical, environmental or artistic point of view". The building is owned and managed by the National Property Board of Sweden.

Wikipedia: Kumlienska huset (kvarteret Lejonet) (SV), Heritage Website

112 meters / 1 minutes

Sight 23: Hemlös räv

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Laura Ford in Cardiff, Wales, is a British sculptor. She is currently president of the Royal Society of Sculptors.

Wikipedia: Laura Ford (EN)

155 meters / 2 minutes

Sight 24: Morgonbad

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Morgonbad

Morgonbad is a fountain sculpture by Anders Zorn. It was created in 1908-1909 and can be found in addition to Zorngården's garden, in Rosenbadsparken in Stockholm. Morning Bath was one of Zorn's last sculpture works.

Wikipedia: Morgonbad (SV)

225 meters / 3 minutes

Sight 25: Dance Museum

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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.

Wikipedia: Dansmuseet (EN), Website

338 meters / 4 minutes

Sight 26: Culture Centre

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House of Culture is a cultural center situated to the south of Sergels torg in central Stockholm, Sweden. The House of Culture has been described as a symbol for Stockholm as well as of the growth of modernism in Sweden.

Wikipedia: The House of Culture (Stockholm) (EN)

156 meters / 2 minutes

Sight 27: Kristallvertikalaccent

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Crystal vertical accent, officially "Crystal, vertical accent in glass and steel", is Edvin Öhrström's glass pillar at Sergels torg in Stockholm. It is also called "The Cube", "The Stick" or "The Glass Obelisk".

Wikipedia: Kristallvertikalaccent (SV)

414 meters / 5 minutes

Sight 28: Klara kyrka

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The Church of Saint Clare or Klara Church is a church in central Stockholm. Since 1989, the Swedish Evangelical Mission is responsible for its activities.

Wikipedia: Klara Church (EN), Heritage Website

930 meters / 11 minutes

Sight 29: Kungsholms kyrka

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Kungsholm Church or Ulrika Eleonora Church is a church building at Bergsgatan on the island of Kungsholmen in Stockholm, Sweden. Belonging to the Västermalm Parish of the Church of Sweden, the church was inaugurated on 2 December 1688.

Wikipedia: Kungsholm Church (EN), Heritage Website

842 meters / 10 minutes

Sight 30: Kollektivhuset

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Kollektivhuset

The collective house is called an apartment building in the Fågelbärsträdet block at John Ericssonsgatan 6 on Kungsholmen in Stockholm, built in 1935 according to drawings by Sven Markelius, in collaboration with Alva Myrdal. The main idea of the collective house idea was that there should be trained staff to take care of the children and staff should also be on site at night, when the parents were away. A large central kitchen would save space in the apartment and make cooking easier for the residents. The property Fågelbärsträdet 13 has been a legally protected listed building since 1992.

Wikipedia: Kollektivhuset, John Ericssonsgatan (SV)

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