Private Half Day Tour: Viking History Trip from Stockholm Including Sigtuna
- 5 hours
- Free cancellation up to 24h before
- 2 languages
- Private tour
Highlights
Dive into the exciting Swedish Viking era on a private 5 hour guided tour from Stockholm. Visit important Viking sites of big historical value, an assembly, a bridge and a gravefield. Look at pretty rune stones and hear the messages that they want you to know. See Sweden's oldest still existing town, Sigtuna. You will walk the main street who traces itself back to 980 AD. You will see medieval church ruins and pretty traditional wooden houses from the 1700's. Hotel pick up and drop off are included.
Inclusions
What's included
- Private, small-group tour
- Driver/vehicle
- All taxes and surcharges
- A historic time travel experience
- Hotel/port pickup and drop-off if within 5km of Stockholm central station (No pickup in Nynäshamn)
What's not
- Lunch
- Gratuities
Itinerary
Visit 3 mightly viking runestones, one mentioning Jesuralem and risen by the women Estrid and visit a viking grave field. Hear about the daily life of the vikings here in Scandinavia. Get a intro to the Viking age, why their name and reputation are as it is today and much more.
Walk over, and admire the runstenes, at a recostructed viking causeway. Hear about the viking lord Jarlabanke and the viking lords, their life and how they ruled the population. About viking roads and trading networks.
Visit one of the best preserved assembly places / Thing-sites in Europe and its runestones. Here about the Skålhamra family and the power who came with creating a assembly place. Dive into some of the Viking age laws and culture customs with kingrop society and more.
lunch stop, own expence.
Do a visit to the cute wodden town of Sigtuna, walk along the main street with it's viking street curving still left today. Visit some of it's church ruins and visit Mariakyrkan.(if open), the only remembrance of a powerful monastery situated right outside the city itself.
Visit to the curch ruin of St Olof, the biggest and most well-preserved church ruin of the 3 around Sigtuna city. It is also the oledst being build around a holy well around 1080-1120.
Cancellation
Free cancellation up to 24 hours before the experience starts, for a full refund.
Reviews
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Know before you go
- Pickup
- Pickup is included for everyone.
- Ticket type
- Mobile or paper ticket accepted
- Operated by
- Sweden History Tours
- Public transportation options are available nearby
- Specialized infant seats are available
- Suitable for all physical fitness levels
- A minimum of 2 people per booking is required
- Children must be accompanied by an adult
- The duration of transfers are approximate, the exact duration will depend on the time of day and traffic conditions
- Private tour will have a maximum of 16 persons
How it compares in Stockholm
- Its from-price is close to the median of the 40 day trips we list in Stockholm.
- Its length is typical for the group.
- By number of reviews it ranks 11 of 40.
- The operator lists free cancellation on it.
About Stockholm
Stockholm is Sweden's capital, spread across islands where Lake Mälaren meets the Baltic, with a medieval old town, royal palaces and a vast archipelago.
Stockholm stands on fourteen islands joined by bridges, with water in nearly every view. Gamla Stan, the medieval Old Town, has cobbled lanes, the Royal Palace, the cathedral Storkyrkan and Stortorget square. The Vasa Museum houses a seventeenth-century warship that sank on her maiden voyage in 1628 and was raised in 1961, one of the best-preserved ships of its age.
Top-ranked sights in Stockholm: Stockholm Royal Palace (Kungliga Slottet), Stockholm Old Town (Gamla Stan), Vasa Museum (Vasamuseet).
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