Stockholm Must See - Old Town, boat + Vasa Museum 3h small group
Description
Start your journey at the Slottsbacken Obelisk and embark on a guided walking tour through Stockholm's Old Town. Explore the fascinating history of this iconic area while visiting renowned landmarks such as the Royal Palace, Stortorget (the Grand Square), the Nobel Prize Museum, the Old Town Runestone, and the Riddarhuset (House of Nobility). Enhance your experience with a scenic ferry ride to Djurgården Isle, where you'll see Stockholm from the water. Along the way, learn intriguing facts about historic sites like the old Stockholm Naval Base, the Nordic Museum, the Viking Museum, and the Museum of Wrecks. Conclude your tour at the renowned Vasa Museum, where you can skip the line and immerse yourself in the story of the remarkably well-preserved Vasa ship. Your guide will share captivating stories of the ship's tragic demise, history and restoration. Important: For tours starting at 16:00/4 PM, the itinerary is reversed due to Vasa Museum opening hours.
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Itinerary
Meet up for this shared Stockholm must see tour 09.30 at the foot of gustav III Slottsbacken obelisk (if you got at 16.00 start it is at the anchor outside of the vasa museum). Start of the tour with an introduction, the itinerary of the day and the history of the killing of king Gustav III at the Royal Opera connected tot his Obelisk.
The Finnish church of Stockholm
A history of the palace and the monarchy.
Experience and explore Stockholm's main square with your tour guide. Hear the story of the Bloodbath of Stockholm, and enjoy beautiful, 17th C fasades and decorations.
Pass by the Nobel prize museum and hear about Alfred Nobel, and the history of Stortorget itself.
Experience the old town runestone and it's history.
Experience the Ally of Hell and the history of the executioners of Stockholm.
A brief stop to explore the history of Storkyrkan, Stockholm's main church, uncovering stories of life in ancient Stockholm due to recent archeological excavations.
On the "isle of the Nobels" you'll experience stories of monks, death, fires and flames.
The house of knights in Stockholm.
The Iron square, the trade networks and the German part of Old Town.
Walk trough the smallest ally of Stockholm and hear the tragic fate of the one giving the ally it's name.
While waiting of the ferry to Djurgården we'll explore the old harbor and the trade and waterways of Stockholm.
Hear the tales and stories about some of the famous Medieval battles connected to this statue.
After the ferry ride awaits a shorter city walk on Djurgården isle, the former royal hunting grounds and military navy isle transformed into a beautiful park and museum isle.
Vrak and Viking museum are two museums hosted in WWII shreds build to withstand airplane bombs.
Se the beautiful modern runestones at the entrence and hear about the vIking age.
We'll together explore the history and remains of the old naval base of Stockholm moved from here in the 1970:s
Hear the history of the Nordic museum and it's collection of Nordic history since 1800:s whose collects objects connected to Sweden and the Nordic between 1500 until today.
Explore with your tour guide the mighty Vasa ship, a world unique failure sailing aprox. 1200m before it sunk. Today it can be experienced in the Vasa Museum, standing almost 40m long with 98% complete original wood from 17th C.
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What's included
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Important Information
- Service animals allowed
- Public transportation options are available nearby
- Travelers should have at least a moderate level of physical fitness
- Operates in all weather conditions, please dress appropriately.
- Minimum 3 people booked to run the tour, if less extra payment possible.
Reviews(36)
This tour gave a nice overview of Stockholms history. Of course, the Vasa museum was a must see and having a guide made it even better. It is a great way to explore and find things you may wish to explore further.
Emma gives an enjoyable tour. Good mix of history and other stories.
Wonderfully informative history walk with a guided (must see on any itinerary) Vasa tour included. Great rain or shine.
Thanka for taking your time to writing this. Happy to read that you liked our tour, you are more than welcome back to Sweden History Tours Stockholm city tours :-)
Peter was absolutely amazing. As a retired historian who worked at the Vasa museum we felt like we had an unparalleled historical tour off Stockholm. He was so polite well prepared with pictures and historical references. the tour also starts before all the tourists are out so it very peaceful. An absolute must we were blown away with this tour.
Peter sent his thanks to you, as do I for this well-written review to read. I am very happy to hear all went well and that the places , and his way of doing the tour was to your liking. Welcome back to Sweden History Tours another time.
Our guide Peter, was fantastic , he knew so much about history of Stockholm & Sweden, about Old Town, and about the Vasa museum and ship. We learned a lot.
Nice experience, the tour guide was extremely knowledgeable and very funny, it worth money expended it
Thanks for your review and happy you liked your tour.
Great tour with Af Ki! Learned so much and felt like VIPs throughout. Very knowledgable and funny - definitely recommend!
Great to hear and thanks for this recension, really happy you did get such a good tour and felt cared for. Have send this to your guide in question. Welcome back to Sweden History Tours and Stockholm in the future.
Olaf was great. he knew how to schedule the stops and add some customized touches that made the overall tour great
Thabka for taking your time to write this. Happy to hear he customized your tour and ended up giving you a good experience and a wiev of the history of Stockholm. Will send this one to him.
My husband and I had a great experience walking the old town with our guide Tobi. He had a wealth of knowledge which he imparted with humour and passion. We learnt so much and gained a real appreciation for this beautiful city.
Thanks for taking your time to write this, really happy to se that you got a good tour and the wealth of knowledge Tobias did give you for this tour. Happy to resd it was a great experience for you on your Sweden HistoryTours tour :-)
Christoff was a wealth of knowledge. He provided information that was new to me. I loved the Vasa museum. It is an unbelievable experience. I would highly recommend this tour
Isn't Vasa a fantatic ship and the stories who can be told from that ship and it's crews remains are so fashinating. Thanks a lot for s good review and hapoy you enjoyed the tourm sent it onwards to the guide Christoffer in question.
