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Össeby church ruin
Vada church
Markims mediveal church
Beautiful frescoes at Täby church
Markims church

Private Tour: Swedish Church History Half-Day Tour from Stockholm

By Sweden History Tours
Free cancellation available
Price is AU$214 per adult
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Features
  • Free cancellation available
  • 5h
  • Mobile voucher
  • Instant confirmation
  • Selective hotel pickup
  • Multiple languages
Overview

Sweden got some of the best perseved mediveal chuches in Europe. On this tour we explore some of the best preserved ones close to Stockholm. Enjoy 15c preserved frescos, mediveal crosses, winger alter pieces, romanesqe arcitecture and much more. Explore the church history of Sweden on this private half-day tour from Stockholm with a knowledgeable local guide. Meet up in central Stockholm at your hotel.

Activity location

  • Taby kyrka
    • Kyrkvagen 7-9, Kyrkvägen 7-9
    • Taby, Sweden, Sweden

Meeting/Redemption Point

  • Taby kyrka
    • Kyrkvagen 7-9, Kyrkvägen 7-9
    • Taby, Sweden, Sweden

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Private Tour: Swedish Church History Half-Day Tour from Stockholm
  • Activity duration is 5 hours5h5h
  • English

Pickup included

Starting time: 9:30 am
Price details
AU$214.41 x 2 AdultsAU$428.82
Total
Price is AU$428.82
Until Mon, 25 Nov

What's included, what's not

  • What's includedWhat's includedLocal guide
  • What's includedWhat's includedDriver/guide
  • What's excludedWhat's excludedLunch
  • What's excludedWhat's excludedService charge

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  • Wheelchair accessible
  • Infants and small children can ride in a pram or stroller
  • Service animals allowed
  • Public transport options are available nearby
  • Specialised infant seats are available
  • Transport options are wheelchair accessible
  • Not recommended for travellers with poor cardiovascular health
  • Suitable for all physical fitness levels
  • Children must be accompanied by an adult
  • A minimum of 2 adult's per booking is required

Activity itinerary

Taby kyrka
  • 40m
We travel north into the beautiful Swedish countryside. Explore churches both famous and less wellknown gems hidden in the landscape. Travel to Täby church that have one of the best preserved fresques from the late 15th C preserved, winged alter pieces and more. see how the churches were built and learn about the epoch art styles. Visit the famous Täby Church, home of Albertus Pictor; a famour swedish church painter living around 1470-90s when he and his workshop painted. Täby is one of the best preserved examples of that. Mediveal tripetych left and a cosy cool church room..
Vallentuna church
  • 40m
Visit a very typical after-reformatic 18th C church room, whitewashed walls and noble families burial weapons painted in same way as the Vasa ship. We also take a look at stone-masters signatures who built this church and some runestones: the oldest christian monuments around close to Stockholm.
Vallentuna
  • 40m
lunch stop.
Vada kyrka
  • 30m
Visit this former private church Anno 1200; builton top of a Viking age house, probably as a church belonging to the farm of this manatee whose wast pit was found some time ago. We travel back to a time when the Swedish nobles held the power over the church in 12th C. This church holds the grave of a women who was mistress to a Swedish warrior king Gustav Adolphus II. Her about her astonishing life; how she beat up tax collectors and got called to court several times.
Össeby Church Ruin
  • 20m
Next we visit a broken church, a church ruin belonging to two parishes that got jointed into one and this got abandoned. Build in the 15th C we can sew how churches was build and made.
Åbybergskyrkans Församling
  • 30m
Onwards to a new 1970:s church belonging to "the free churches of Sweden", Equmeniakyrkan. Sweden have a unic number of small churches existing only in Sweden due to it's many fractions when the prosecution of the Swedish church was lifted in 1860:s with konventrickelplakatet. Many Swedes migrated to America due to the state church religious prosecution.

Location

Activity location

  • LOB_ACTIVITIESLOB_ACTIVITIESTaby kyrka
    • Kyrkvagen 7-9, Kyrkvägen 7-9
    • Taby, Sweden, Sweden

Meeting/Redemption Point

  • PEOPLEPEOPLETaby kyrka
    • Kyrkvagen 7-9, Kyrkvägen 7-9
    • Taby, Sweden, Sweden

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