Visit the most spectacular & iconic Bronze age sights close to Stockholm!

Duration

3 Hours

About

Get an insight how life was in prehistoric Sweden around 1500-500 BC. Visit the famous Örsta rock carving, experience impressive Bronze age graves situated close to former waterways. Impressive built up stone cains.Walk within a the Swedish hill forts and hear about general life and the lives of the riches. see replicas of findings from the time period.

Hear about folklore about the special relationships to pit groves (skålgropar).You will see several preserved ones during this tour, the sacrificial stone holes in folklore named “Fairy mills“ (Älvkvarnar). Also see few Viking remenants and remains from the Swedish Iron age. NOTE that this tour might need to start earlier during october - february due to less light outside.

Itinerary

Pick up at your Stockholm hotel (within 5km from Stockholm central station). Then we leave the city to the countryside. We will explore the parish of Vallentuna and starts by visit some big Bronze age mounds/stone cains.

After that we explore by a short walk true the forest the Örsta rock carving, one of the few picture rock carvings from the Bronze Age close to Stockholm that have served. Then we climb up a hill and visit a prehistoric hill fort (fortification) and hear about the peoples life's and believes.

We go onward to see different preserved examples of the “fairy mills”. Hear about how they were in use until the early 21th C by local villages in the Swedish forest.

Hear about the culture, the contacts out in Europe and their society. Explore with us remnants left from this fascinating period and replicas of findings. Some walking are necessary in elevated terrain during this tour to wear good shoes.

Pick Up & Drop Off Information

• Pick Up: We will pick you up at your central Stockholm hotel/accommodation (if within 5km of Stockholm).
• We also do port pick up if you are arriving by cruise on the day of your tour.
• Drop off: We will drop you off at your central Stockholm hotel/accommodation (if within 5km of Stockholm).
• We also do port drop off if you are leaving by cruise on the day of your tour.

Location: Stockholm, Sweden

Pick-up point: Your accommodation or cruise port, no further than 5km from Stockholm Central Station

Places we visit: Vallentuna