Stockholm’s Historic and Cultural Landmarks
Stockholm · Sweden
- Audio guide
- 4 languages
- Offline
Walk through Stockholm’s historic and cultural landscape, from grand churches and castles to a famously narrow lane and galleries filled with art. You’ll see how royal, religious, civic and creative life meet across the route, with Skinnarviksberget adding a high viewpoint along the way. The walk is worth taking for its changing atmosphere: solemn interiors, compact old streets, broad city views and museums devoted to art, history and photography.
The walk
Stops 1–6 of 14. The rest are in the app.
Royal Palace
A palace rebuilt after the fire that erased Tre Kronor, with its medieval bones still inside.
Bonde Palace
A seventeenth-century palace that became Stockholm’s courthouse and Sweden’s Supreme Court.
Riddarholmen Church
A medieval friary turned royal burial church, marked by monarchs, lightning, and heraldic ceremony.
Wrangel Palace
A private palace that became a royal home, a government office, and a court of appeal.
Skinnarviksberget
Stockholm’s highest natural point inside the tolls, with a name inherited from the tanners who worked below.
Mårten Trotzigs gränd
A seventy-centimetre? No: Stockholm’s narrowest street is a merchant’s alley with a surprisingly violent history.
Stop 7
Stop 8
Stop 9
- 8 more stops in the app
Data: OpenStreetMap contributors and Google Places
More walks in Stockholm
6 walks
How a walk works
8 more stops in the app
This page shows the first 6 of 14 stops. The rest of the walk, and the guide who narrates it, are in the app.
Pick a walk
Every stop is a real place, already in walking order.
Pocket your phone
Follow the line on the live map, or download the walk before you lose signal.
Listen as you arrive
On a narrated walk the story starts on its own at each stop, so your eyes stay on the place.
Free to install · Every city’s featured walk is free, start to finish.
A guide who talks
Narration at every stop, starting on its own as you arrive — phone in your pocket.
The route, followed
A live map with the turns called out, and a way back whenever you wander off it.
In four languages
English, French, Spanish and Arabic — the words and the voice, not just the labels.
Or build your own
Pick the places you actually want and the app works out the order to walk them in.
The unglamorous things
Toilets, pharmacies, cash points and water, without leaving the walk.
No signal needed
Download a walk before you go and it works under a souk roof or on a plane.
Picks up where you left off
Stop for lunch, come back tomorrow, and the walk is exactly where you left it.