Viking History Small Group Tour from Stockholm: Half Day Including Sigtuna
Description
Unveil the mystery of the Swedish Viking Age. Join our expert tour guides to Viking Age rune stones and ancient places to learn about the Swedish Vikings. Excavate Sweden’s amazing Viking history on a 5-hour guided tour from the beautiful capital of Stockholm. Unveil the mystery of the Swedish Viking history with an expert local guide and visit great Viking sites of cultural and archaeological interest. Gaze at beautiful rune stones and hear the stories they have to tell you. Also hear tales about Viking mythology, war and legends as well as what they ate, lived and explore what they left behind. Also, see Sweden's oldest town Sigtuna. Transportation from and back to Stockholm is included.
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Itinerary
Stockholm to stop one. Depart from the your centrally located Stockholm hotel in a comfortable car or minivan depending on the size of the group. Travel north into the picturesque Swedish countryside. Feel how you start to move back in time as you sweep through the lovely landscape. Ca 30min to stop one.
Visit Broby Bro, a well excavated Viking grave field. Learn about how the Vikings buried their dead and what happened to them in the afterlife. Hear the story about Estrid, a aristocratic Viking woman in the Stockholm region.
Next up is Jarlabankes rune stone bridge in Täby. Hear the intriguing tale about Jarlabanke, the great Viking lord who was a super-magnate. Learn about the Viking bridges and roads that tied Sweden and laid the foundation to our nation.
Next, visit a Viking parliament and feel the presence of ancient power, imagine the Viking men sitting in the parliament making mighty decisions.
Last but not least, head to Sigtuna. This is Sweden's oldest city, founded in 970 AD by King Erik Segersäll of the Svea Kingdom. Learn about its role in our history as we walk the Viking age-originated main street with its prettty 18th century houses. Transport back to Stockholm is included.
lunch stop, lunch at your own expense.
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Pickup Locations & Times
We offer hotel pick up at all central hotels, ports and other accommodations within 3 km from Stockholm central station (you can use Google Maps to check your distance from Stockholm central station). If you're staying in the Old town (where it is not possible to get in by car) we may ask you to walk a few minutes to another location where we pick you up. If you are outside the pick up zone we will give you directions to a meeting place that is simple to get to with public transit. If you are unsure if you're in or out please email us after booking. Pick up normally starts at 09.00 or 09.30. For the shorter tours 3-5h 09.30 is the normal pick up time. For the longer tours, 8h:s, 09.00 is our usual pick up time for the first guests. Please note that this is flexible depending on different factors like the number of reservations, time of year and traffic conditions. We will be in touch two days in advance of a public tour with your final starting time, if you want to know beforehand or want that we arrange a fixed time for you please contact us by email. If your tour departs from a cruise pier: If your ship arrives at S165 and S167 STADSGÅRDEN: Please walk a few hundred meters away from your ship while following the BLUE/GREEN lines. Go past the fences and guards, and your guide will wait there, with a sign saying "Viking Tours" on an A4-paper. NOTE: If you enter any other harbor number in STADSGÅRDEN than S165 or S167 please go outside the fences and guards and the guide will meet you there on the time of the tour. We recommend that you are available on cell phones to avoid issues during pick-up. If your ship arrives at F638 FRIHAMNEN: Upon debarking the ship, please go through the terminal building. Once you go past the sliding doors (everyone else that departs the ship will walk out this way), the guide will meet you just outside the sliding doors. The guide will be holding an A4-paper saying "Viking Tours". NOTE: If you enter any other harbor number in FRIHAMNEN than F638 please go outside the fences and guards and the guide will meet you there on the time of the tour. If your ship arrives at V523 VÄRTAHAMNEN: Walk from your ship towards the tourist buses, which is less than 10 meters from the ship hull. The guide will wait for you at the tourist bus area, near the buses, with an A4-paper, which says "Viking Tours." The guide will then direct you to the tour vehicle. NOTE: If you enter any other harbor number in VÄRTAHAMNEN than V523 please go outside the fences and guards and the guide will meet you there on the time of the tour. If your ship arrives at NYNÄSHAMN: NO PICK UP INCLUDED HERE. That is due to it being 50 km away from Stockholm central station. We recommend you to contact us and decide on a meeting place in Central Stockholm. We will give directions on how to go there either by train or by taking one of the cruise buses going from the harbor into Stockholm. If unsure what pier you're coming to contact after booking with your ships name.
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Important Information
- Public transportation options are available nearby
- Specialized infant seats are available
- Suitable for all physical fitness levels
- Children must be accompanied by an adult, advise with us before the tour if a child needs a booster seat or child seat.
- The duration of transfers are approximate, the exact duration will depend on the time of day and traffic conditions
- Hotel pick up time will be advised 1-2 days before the tour.
- Cruise pick up times will be advised within 24 hours from booking.
- Minimum numbers apply. There is a possibility of cancellation after confirmation if there are not enough passengers to meet requirements. In the event of this occurring, you will be offered an alternative or full refund. The minimum number is 3 persons. We hold the right to cancel a tour if the number is below 3 persons for all tour reservations combined.
Reviews(122)
The guide was very well informed and a chill person. And beautiful in nature. The city was also very nice.
A good overview and linear history of the Vikings. Although it is a considerable length of history, Gabriel our guide, was able to share this period with insight and humour.
Our tour guide Gabriel was informative and passionate about Viking history. The time just flew by as he drove us to the different sites on the itinerary. It was interesting to hear a different perspective on Viking history than are held in my own country. We also were told a little about present day Sweden. There was so much information it was difficult to process and remember it all but that's a good virtue from any tour. Next time I'm in Stockholm though I will book the full day tour as there is so much more to learn. Highly recommend this tour.
Excellent half-day tour and wonderful guide, Tor! He made history come alive and made it very interesting.
The tour was excellent, Olof was the tour guide and he’s very knowledgeable regarding the Viking history, an excellent driver too. Highly recommended if you like history about the Vikings. Sigtuna town was a surprise for me. I had a great time with the tour.
Awesome tour! Olaf was an incredible guide with lots of knowledge about viking history and Swedish history in general. We saw several rune stones and visited Sigtuna for a while. It was also the perfect length tour for someone with jetlag at about 5 hours.
Olof the guide was awesome and very friendly and gave my group great historical background of Sweden and gave us time to enjoy each site. The lunch and walk through old Viking era churches in Sigtuna was the highlight and capstone of the tour.
This tour is a good intro into Viking history, and I was able to learn more about the Vikings that I didn’t know before. I wish there was more info about Viking culture and a deeper dive into the history, but for a half day tour it was good. Our guide Olaf was very nice, good driver and explained every site well, along with sharing more info about Stockholm on the drive (which I appreciated). It was a good day!
Had a wonderful time on this half day tour of Viking History with our guide, Olaf. My wife and I, and three others did the tour together. We had several stops to view Viking runes (carved stones that tell a short story about an individual Viking) on the way to Sigtuna, one of the oldest towns, and first capital of Sweden. You might think of runes as an early form of social media, Viking style, as they share a public message about the author that he/she wants others to know about him or her, probably true, or perhaps embellished a little bit. In any event it is interesting that we can interpret these stones hundreds of years later and compare their messages to what we might say about ourselves today. To me, the study of history always shows that humans have much more in common with each other than our believed differences. Olaf definitely knew his Viking History and shared stores of both the personal lives of some of the prominent early Vikings as well as their overall influence on modern day Sweden and beyond. In Sigtuna, we also viewed the ruins of some early churches founded by the Vikings and Olaf explained why the churches were built and how Christianity became a part of the Viking story. At the end of the tour, we had a nice lunch at one of the several restaurants in Sigtuna. The price of the lunch is not included in the tour fee. If you're interested in Viking History, or even history in general, I would recommend this tour.
Guide Olaf was excellent. Good overview of both Viking and Swedish history, appreciated him pointing out landmarks in Stockholm as well. Sigtuna is beautiful.
