Free Walking Sightseeing Tour #9 in Stockholm, Sweden

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Tour Facts

Number of sights 20 sights
Distance 9.7 km
Ascend 177 m
Descend 203 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.

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Sight 1: 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)

518 meters / 6 minutes

Sight 2: Gustav Adolfs kyrka

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Gustaf Adolfskyrkan is a church located in the northern part of Gustaf Adolfsparken, on Östermalm in Stockholm. The church, designed by Carl Möller, was consecrated in 1892 by Bishop Gottfrid Billing. as a garrison church for Svea Life Guards but now belongs to the Church of Sweden through Oscar's parish.

Wikipedia: Gustav Adolfskyrkan (SV)

648 meters / 8 minutes

Sight 3: 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

272 meters / 3 minutes

Sight 4: The English Church

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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.

Wikipedia: St Peter and St Sigfrid's Church (EN)

947 meters / 11 minutes

Sight 5: Bünsowska huset

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Bünsowska huset is an exclusive apartment building located on Strandvägen 29–33 in Östermalm in central Stockholm, built in 1886–1888 for the wood patron and millionaire Friedrich Bünsow after drawings by architects Isak Gustaf Clason (facades) and Anders Gustaf Forsberg (the plans). The building complex occupies the entire block Korporalen which is surrounded by Riddargatan in the north, Grev Magnigatan in the west, Torstenssonsgatan in the east and by Strandvägen in the south. The property is bruised by the Stockholm City Museum, which is the strongest protection and means "that the buildings are judged to have particularly high cultural-historical values".

Wikipedia: Bünsowska huset (SV), Heritage Website

731 meters / 9 minutes

Sight 6: 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

412 meters / 5 minutes

Sight 7: Royal Drama Theatre

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Royal Drama 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

218 meters / 3 minutes

Sight 8: Birger Jarlspassagen

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

Wikipedia: Birger Jarlspassagen (SV)

347 meters / 4 minutes

Sight 9: 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 10: China Theatre

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Chinateatern is a private theatre located next to Hamngatan on the west side of Berzelii park in the Norrmalm district of Stockholm.

Wikipedia: China Teatern (SV), Website

361 meters / 4 minutes

Sight 11: Dianafontänen I

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The Diana Fountain, or Dianabrunnen, 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 is located in the courtyard of Tändstickspalatset in Stockholm, the Diana Fountain II was created in 1929–1930 and is available as a copy at Skytteholm, Ekerö municipality. On the square in Tomelilla stands a Diana fountain that was donated by Milles to the town when he learned that the town intended to name a street after him as a memory of the Tomelilla exhibition in 1927. In Tomelilla, the sculpture is called Artemis after Diana's Greek counterpart. "Diana" also exists as a single figure in bronze, fitted with a skirt.

Wikipedia: Dianafontänen (SV)

1266 meters / 15 minutes

Sight 12: Brantingmonumentet

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The Branting Monument is a monument in Stockholm, Sweden, with a statue of the Swedish Social Democratic leader Hjalmar Branting. The monument is 5 meters tall and 6 meters wide.

Wikipedia: The Branting Monument (EN)

46 meters / 1 minutes

Sight 13: Anna Sterkys minne

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The Memory of Anna Sterky is a sculpture on Norra Bantorget in Stockholm. The double-sided bronze relief in memory of Anna Sterky was erected in 1988 and was made by sculptor Christina Rundqvist Andersson.

Wikipedia: Anna Sterkys minne (SV)

389 meters / 5 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)

867 meters / 10 minutes

Sight 15: 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

258 meters / 3 minutes

Sight 16: Gustav II Adolf

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The statue of gustaii adolf in the stockholm is an equestrian statue made by pierre hubertl'archevque and johan tobia sergel (johan tobia) on the square of Gustaiv adolf in the stockholm. The statue was completed on November 17, 1796; the parish sculpture was in place in 1906.

Wikipedia: Gustav II Adolfs staty, Stockholm (SV)

648 meters / 8 minutes

Sight 17: Flemingska palatset

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Flemingska palatset or Flemings palats is a building in the Aeolus block at Slottsbacken 8 in the Old Town of Stockholm.

Wikipedia: Flemingska palatset (SV), Heritage Website

610 meters / 7 minutes

Sight 18: Bonde Palace

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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.

Wikipedia: Bonde Palace (EN), Heritage Website

177 meters / 2 minutes

Sight 19: Axel Oxenstierna

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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.

Wikipedia: Axel Oxenstiernas staty (SV)

929 meters / 11 minutes

Sight 20: Birger Jarls kenotaf

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Birger Jarl's Cenotaph is a sculpture and a mock tomb, a so-called cenotaph, of Birger Jarl at Stockholm City Hall. Birger Jarl's cenotaph was designed by City Hall architect Ragnar Östberg together with sculptor Gustaf Sandberg.

Wikipedia: Birger jarls kenotaf (SV)

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