Free Walking Sightseeing Tour #8 in Stockholm, Sweden

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Tour Facts

Number of sights 17 sights
Distance 7.6 km
Ascend 166 m
Descend 163 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.

All Sightseeing Tours in Stockholm Individual Sights in Stockholm

Sight 1: Humlegården

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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.

Wikipedia: Humlegården (EN)

164 meters / 2 minutes

Sight 2: Farfadern

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Farfadern

The Grandfather is a sculpture of a seated elderly man with a boy on his lap, executed in plaster by Per Hasselberg in 1885–86.

Wikipedia: Farfadern (SV)

295 meters / 4 minutes

Sight 3: Höken och duvan

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The Hawk and the Dove is a fountain sculpture by Torsten Fridh. The bronze sculpture was placed on a high granite pillar in front of the Daneliuska House at Stureplan in Stockholm in 1990.

Wikipedia: Höken och duvan (SV)

596 meters / 7 minutes

Sight 4: Karl Staaffs Park

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Karstave Park is a park on the North Ore of the Central Log at the intersection of Bird Street Tree Street and Government Street. The square on the other side of Bird Jargon Street and the place where Fury Hill Square is located, formerly known as Swamp Square, once placed the shame column of public punishment. The small park originally had the name Track Road Park, located one by one at the Tram staff's settlement kiosk and the Track Road headquarters at the nearby ab Stockholm. Smaller buildings painted by Niels Cronholm in 1912 in the possession of John Al. Bergendach's biographer, Earl Bird.

Wikipedia: Karl Staaffs park (SV)

107 meters / 1 minutes

Sight 5: Fordon

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Fordon is a sculpture by Karl Göte Bejemark at Eriksbergsplan in Stockholm.

Wikipedia: Fordon (skulptur) (SV)

137 meters / 2 minutes

Sight 6: Eriksbergsparken

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Eriksbergsparken is a park in central Stockholm, Sweden. The park was built in 1920 under 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, the Order of Carpenters has its building. On the other side of Birger Jarlsgatan is Karl Staaff's park.

Wikipedia: Eriksbergsparken, Stockholm (SV)

444 meters / 5 minutes

Sight 7: Engelbrekt Church

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Engelbrekt Church Bengt A Lundberg / CC BY 2.5

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.

Wikipedia: Engelbrekt Church (EN), Heritage Website

289 meters / 3 minutes

Sight 8: Balders Hage

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Balders hage is a park in Lärkstaden on Östermalm in central Stockholm. The park was part of the city plan for a new residential town in the area around Lärkstaden that was presented in 1902 by architect Per-Olof Hallman. Hallman was influenced by the Austrian architect Camillo Sitte's ideas about artistic urban development. 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.

Wikipedia: Balders hage, Stockholm (SV)

407 meters / 5 minutes

Sight 9: Ellen Keys Park

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Ellen Keys ParkBoberger. Photo: Bengt Oberger / CC BY-SA 3.0

Ellen Keys park is a park near Jarlaplan on Östermalm in central Stockholm. The park has an area of 0.5 hectares and stretches between Karlavägen and Birger Jarlsgatan and is bounded in the north by a new residential block and in the south by Borgarskolan.

Wikipedia: Ellen Keys park (SV)

196 meters / 2 minutes

Sight 10: Jarlaplan

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Jarlaplan

Jarlaplan is an open space and smaller street in Vasastan in central Stockholm where Birger Jarlsgatan meets Roslagsgatan.

Wikipedia: Jarlaplan (SV)

364 meters / 4 minutes

Sight 11: Betlehemskyrkan

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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.

Wikipedia: Bethlehem Church (Stockholm) (EN), Website

744 meters / 9 minutes

Sight 12: August Strindberg

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August Strindberg

Carl Johan Eldh was a Swedish artist and sculptor.

Wikipedia: Carl Eldh (EN)

380 meters / 5 minutes

Sight 13: Citykyrkan

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Citykyrkan is a Pentecostal congregation 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 period affiliated with the Philadelphia congregation. The building, which the congregation bought in 1940, is an old entertainment venue formerly known as the Phoenix Palace.

Wikipedia: Citykyrkan, Stockholm (SV)

182 meters / 2 minutes

Sight 14: Centralbadsparken

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Centralbadsparken is one of Stockholm's smallest parks and is located in the Islandet block on Norrmalm in Stockholm. The block is bounded by Drottninggatan, Adolf Fredriks Kyrkogata, Holländargatan and Olof Palmes gata.

Wikipedia: Centralbadsparken (SV)

1117 meters / 13 minutes

Sight 15: Bonniers konsthall

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Bonniers konsthall is an art gallery on Torsgatan in Stockholm, opened in 2006.

Wikipedia: Bonniers Konsthall (SV), Website

673 meters / 8 minutes

Sight 16: Filadelfiakyrkan

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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.

Wikipedia: Filadelfiakyrkan (EN)

1487 meters / 18 minutes

Sight 17: Justitia

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Justitiabrunnen is a fountain sculpture in Rådhusparken outside Stockholm City Hall on Kungsholmen in Stockholm.

Wikipedia: Justitiabrunnen (SV)

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