Self-guided Sightseeing Tour #13 in Stockholm, Sweden

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Number of sights 27 sights
Distance 12.2 km
Ascend 348 m
Descend 357 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: Gröndals kyrka

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Gröndal's Church is a church within the parish of Hägersten in the Diocese of Stockholm. The building is built in reddish-brown brick and is located in the middle of Gröndal with the address Gröndalsvägen 61, corner of Lövholmsvägen. The building was green-labelled by the Stockholm City Museum, which means "that the buildings have a high cultural-historical value and are particularly valuable from a historical, cultural-historical, environmental or artistic point of view".

Wikipedia: Gröndals kyrka (SV)

994 meters / 12 minutes

Sight 2: Colour Factory

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Colour FactoryBoberger. Photo:Bengt Oberger / CC BY 3.0

Färgfabriken is an art gallery for contemporary art, architecture, social issues and urban development. The art gallery is located on Lövholmen, a former industrial area in Liljeholmen, Stockholm Municipality. Until the 1970s, the premises housed the paint manufacturer Beckers, hence the name Färgfabriken.

Wikipedia: Färgfabriken (SV)

1802 meters / 22 minutes

Sight 3: Högalidsparken

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Högalidsparken is a park just northeast of Hornstull, in Högalid parish on Södermalm in Stockholm. The park was given its current name in 1915.

Wikipedia: Högalidsparken (SV)

1621 meters / 19 minutes

Sight 4: Ivar Los park

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Ivar Lo-Johansson is a park in Stockholm named in memory of the author Ivar Lo-Johansson. The park is located at Bastugatan 26 on Mariaberget, Södermalm and also has access to Monteliusvägen.

Wikipedia: Ivar Los park (SV)

1122 meters / 13 minutes

Sight 5: Küselska huset

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The Küsel's House, also known as the Eliaeson House, is a building in the Argus block at Skeppsbron 40 in the Old Town and is located next door to the Customs House in the same block.

Wikipedia: Küselska huset (SV), Heritage Website

169 meters / 2 minutes

Sight 6: Jewish Museum

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The Jewish Museum in Stockholm, Sweden, is devoted to objects and environments related to Jewish religion, tradition, and history, particularly in connection to Judaism in Sweden.

Wikipedia: Jewish Museum of Sweden (EN), Website

226 meters / 3 minutes

Sight 7: Bacchus 6

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Bacchus 6

The Bacchus block is a block in Stockholm's Old Town. The block is surrounded by Österlånggatan to the west, Brunnsgränd to the north, Skeppsbron to the east and Skottgränd to the south. The area for today's Bacchus block came into being after the 1640s when the Eastern City Wall was demolished and new buildable land was laid out on partially filled land along Skeppsbron. North of the block in today's Diana block was the medieval Fiskartorget.

Wikipedia: Kvarteret Bacchus (SV), Heritage Website

154 meters / 2 minutes

Sight 8: Flemingska palatset

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The Fleming Palace or Fleming's Palace is a building in the Aeolus block at Slottsbacken 8 in Stockholm's Old Town.

Wikipedia: Flemingska palatset (SV), Heritage Website

128 meters / 2 minutes

Sight 9: Gustav III

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Gustav III

Gustav III's statue is a sculpture depicting Sweden's King Gustav III. It was created by Johan Tobias Sergel, and its quay and postament were designed and erected by the master builder Jonas Lidströmer. It stands on Skeppsbrokajen below Slottsbacken in Stockholm and was unveiled on 24 January 1808.

Wikipedia: Gustav III (staty) (SV)

111 meters / 1 minutes

Sight 10: Royal Armoury

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The Royal Armoury is a museum in the Royal Palace in Stockholm, Sweden. It contains many artifacts of Swedish military history and Swedish royalty. It is the oldest museum in Sweden, established in 1628 by King Gustavus Adolphus when he decided that his clothes from his campaign in Poland should be preserved for posterity.

Wikipedia: Livrustkammaren (EN), Website

110 meters / 1 minutes

Sight 11: Karl XIV Johan

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Karl XIV Johan's statue is an equestrian statue of Karl XIV Johan, King of Sweden and Norway from 1818 to 1844. The King is depicted with a field marshal's staff in his hand, and the statue symbolises his entry into Stockholm as the newly elected Crown Prince in 1810. The statue was originally inaugurated in 1854 and has been placed since 2018 on Slottsbacken, outside the south arch of the Royal Palace of Stockholm.

Wikipedia: Karl XIV Johans staty (SV)

54 meters / 1 minutes

Sight 12: Finnish Church

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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

120 meters / 1 minutes

Sight 13: Iron Boy

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Järnpojke or Iron Boy is a sculpture in Gamla stan of Stockholm, Sweden by Liss Eriksson, which is only 15 centimetres (5.9 in) high and therefore is the smallest public monument of Stockholm.

Wikipedia: Järnpojke (EN)

139 meters / 2 minutes

Sight 14: Gamla stan

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Gamla stan, until 1980 officially Staden mellan broarna, is the old town of Stockholm, Sweden. Gamla stan consists primarily of the island Stadsholmen. Officially, but not colloquially, Gamla stan includes the surrounding islets Riddarholmen, Helgeandsholmen and Strömsborg. It has a population of approximately 3,000.

Wikipedia: Gamla stan (EN)

163 meters / 2 minutes

Sight 15: Axel Oxenstiernas palats

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Axel Oxenstierna palace is a Mannerist architecture style building situated in the Old Town of Stockholm, Sweden.

Wikipedia: Axel Oxenstierna palace (EN), Heritage Website

362 meters / 4 minutes

Sight 16: Hessensteinska palatset

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The Hessenstein Palace or Bengt Oxenstiernas palace is a palace with address Birger Jarls Torg 2 at Riddarholmen in Stockholm. The palace was built in the 1630s for the National Council Bengt Bengtsson Oxenstierna. Around 1680, the palace was rebuilt.

Wikipedia: Hessensteinska palatset (SV), Heritage Website

240 meters / 3 minutes

Sight 17: Birger Jarls torn

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Birger Jarls torn is a defensive tower on the northwest corner of Riddarholmen, an islet in Gamla Stan, the old town of Stockholm.

Wikipedia: Birger Jarls torn (EN), Heritage Website

207 meters / 2 minutes

Sight 18: Old National Archives

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Gamla Riksarkivet is a building at Arkivgatan 3 on Riddarholmen in Stockholm, Sweden. Riksarkivet, the Swedish National Archives, were located in the building until 1968.

Wikipedia: Gamla Riksarkivet (EN), Heritage Website

97 meters / 1 minutes

Sight 19: Birger Jarl

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Birger jarl's statue is a statue depicting Sweden's earl and regent Birger jarl. The statue stands on Birger jarl's square on Riddarholmen in Stockholm. The statue was created by sculptor Bengt Erland Fogelberg and unveiled on October 21, 1854.

Wikipedia: Birger jarl (staty) (SV)

174 meters / 2 minutes

Sight 20: Gustavo Erici

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Gustavo Erici

Gustav Vasa's statue is a sculpture by Pierre Hubert L'Archevêque in front of the House of Nobility in Stockholm, which was inaugurated on 24 June 1774.

Wikipedia: Gustav Vasa (staty) (SV)

128 meters / 2 minutes

Sight 21: 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

495 meters / 6 minutes

Sight 22: Gustav III's Museum of Antiquities

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Gustav III's Museum of Antiquities is Sweden's oldest public art museum, and one of the oldest in Europe. It was opened in 1794 in one of the castle wings of the Royal Palace of Stockholm, as a public tribute to the protection Gustav III had given to all branches of the liberal arts. It contains ancient sculptures that he bought during his trip to Italy in 1783–1784. It was reopened in 1958.

Wikipedia: Gustav III:s antikmuseum (SV), Website

131 meters / 2 minutes

Sight 23: Logården

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Logården

Logården is a garden at the Royal Palace of Stockholm, located facing Skeppsbron and Saltsjön between the castle's south-east and north-eastern wings. One explanation for the name may be that wild animals were kept in the yard, wolves, lynxes, foxes and even lions. The old castle Tre Kronor also had a similar "farm" but there it was called Lejongården or Leopardgården. According to another interpretation, the name derives from the "lodgården" that was located outside the northeastern part of the Tre Kronor Castle. On the ground floor inside, the artillery had its stores and workshops. The cannonballs, which were called "plumbing", were stored in the plumb yard. Later, the name was corrupted to "Logården".

Wikipedia: Logården (SV)

1010 meters / 12 minutes

Sight 24: Af Chapman

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af Chapman, formerly Dunboyne (1888–1915) and G.D. Kennedy (−1923), is a full-rigged steel ship moored on the western shore of the islet Skeppsholmen in central Stockholm, Sweden, now serving as a youth hostel.

Wikipedia: Af Chapman (ship) (EN)

410 meters / 5 minutes

Sight 25: Modern Art Museum

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Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden, is a state museum for modern and contemporary art located on the island of Skeppsholmen in central Stockholm, opened in 1958. In 2009 the museum opened the Moderna Museet Malmö in Malmö.

Wikipedia: Moderna Museet (EN), Website

1995 meters / 24 minutes

Sight 26: Finngrundet

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Finngrundet may refer to:

Wikipedia: Finngrundet (SV)

40 meters / 0 minutes

Sight 27: HMS Spica

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HMS Spica

HSwMS Spica (T121) is a former Swedish Navy Spica-class, torpedo-armed, fast attack craft (FAC), now a museum ship at the Vasa Museum in Stockholm, Sweden.

Wikipedia: HSwMS Spica (T121) (EN)

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