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Private Tour: Swedish History Day Trip to World Heritage Candidate Markim-Orkesta from Stockholm

By Sweden History Tours
9.8 out of 10
Free cancellation available
Price is AU$411 per adult
Features
  • Free cancellation available
  • 5h
  • Mobile voucher
  • Instant confirmation
  • Selective hotel pickup
  • Multiple languages
Overview

Come and see the countryside for a while, get out of the crowded city for 5h and take a look at the historical and cultural lanscape unice for Sweden. This tour includes a pick up and drop of at your hotel. It gives a tour out in the contryside with cossy red cabins including Swedish history. Se the bronze age remenants, viking age runstones, mediveal chuches and a unice visit to the conutrysides cultural lanscape and cosy red cabins.
We visit Markim-Orkesta, a former UNESCO World Heritage candidate area. Markim-Orkesta are two church parishes filled with history from all eras of Sweden's past. This time travelling experience includes the Bronze age, Viking age and other eras in Swedish history. This tour will make you understand how Sweden has developed through history and how its past has helped shape this modern nation.

Activity location

  • Arkils tingstad
    • 27 Tingvallavägen
    • 186 50, Vallentuna, Stockholms län, Sweden

Meeting/Redemption Point

  • Arkils tingstad
    • 27 Tingvallavägen
    • 186 50, Vallentuna, Stockholms län, Sweden

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Private Tour: Swedish History Day Trip to World Heritage Candidate Markim-Orkesta from Stockholm
  • Activity duration is 5 hours5h5h
  • English

Pickup included

Starting time: 9:30 am
Price details
AU$411.31 x 2 AdultsAU$822.62

Total
Price is AU$822.62
Until Sun, 24 Nov

What's included, what's not

  • What's includedWhat's includedPrivate transport
  • What's includedWhat's includedLocal guide
  • What's includedWhat's includedAll taxes, fees and handling charges
  • What's includedWhat's includedDriver/guide
  • What's includedWhat's includedAir-conditioned vehicle
  • What's includedWhat's includedProfessional guide
  • What's excludedWhat's excludedLunch (at farm restaurant)
  • What's excludedWhat's excludedService charge

Know before you book

  • Service animals allowed
  • Public transport options are available nearby
  • Specialised infant seats are available
  • Suitable for all physical fitness levels
  • Private tour, minimum 2 people per booking
  • A maximum of 12 people per booking

Activity itinerary

Arkils tingstad
  • 30m
Visit a viking assembly place. Hear about the viking age and it's time, visit the lakeside..
Vallentuna church
  • 30m
Visit Vallentuna church 12th C church on your way to Markim-Orkesta. This church hold two runestones from the Viking Age, a reformatic church rroom and is very very cool place to be. Markim-Orkesta are two church parishes filled with history from all eras of Sweden's past. This time travelling experience includes the Bronze age, Viking age and other eras in Swedish history. Travel by vehicle (car, minivan or bus depending on group size) with a very knowledgeable local guide to this UNESCO World Heritage Candidate site. Come and learn about Viking culture, feel enchanted by their magic runes and Old Norse mythology. Learn about how Viking Swedes buried their dead and how Christianity changed Swedish society forever. This tour will make you understand how Sweden has developed through history and how its past has helped shape this modern nation. After the hotel pick-up, the tour will travel by vehicle towards Markim-Orkesta. You will travel through history at Markim-Orkesta and experience different eras and aspects of Swedish history. See the ruins of the very likely birthplace of King Vasa, the man who reformed the Swedish state and church from Catholicism to Lutheran Protestantism. Hear about his life and controversial rule. After hearing the intriguing history of King Vasa, journey on to a Christian Viking graveyard. Hear about the mighty burial rituals of the Vikings and how they vanished after Sweden was Christianized. You'll also see a local church which holds six rune stones on its land and hear the tale about the mighty and rich Viking Ulv who plundered England three times. See the splendid frescoes of the medieval church and feel the breath of Medieval Swedes through the stone walls as you learn about their religious lives.
Husbyöhns Islandshästgård
  • 40m
Visit a Icelandic horse farm, greet the horses and the owners (if they are there) and hear more about a modern farm today. This place hold 40 horse souls and a big traditional red barn.
Snåttsta Gård AB
  • 20m
We visit some of the runestones connected to Inga in Snåttsta, a welthy viking women who raiesd runsteons around her farm telling how she came to own it.
Lindholmen
  • 40m
We visit Lindholmens ruin. See the ruins of the very likely birthplace of King Vasa, the man who reformed the Swedish state and church from Catholicism to Lutheran Protestantism. Hear about his life and controversial rule.
Orkesta kyrka
  • 30m
Now you're in the heart of the UNESCO wolrd heritage candidate area. We also visit a local viking gravefield out of all maps. This local church holds 3 rune stones outside its typical, today rare, preserved Romanesque shape. Hear the tale about the mighty and rich Viking Ulv who plundered England three times. feel the breath of Medieval Swedes through the stone walls as you learn about their religious lives here on this former farmland church.
Vallentuna
  • 40m
lunch stop

Location

Activity location

  • LOB_ACTIVITIESLOB_ACTIVITIESArkils tingstad
    • 27 Tingvallavägen
    • 186 50, Vallentuna, Stockholms län, Sweden

Meeting/Redemption Point

  • PEOPLEPEOPLEArkils tingstad
    • 27 Tingvallavägen
    • 186 50, Vallentuna, Stockholms län, Sweden

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