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Auktoriserad Stockholmsguide

Hitoriska vandingar i Stockholm

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Discover Stockholm's history through unique walks: from Mariaberget's cobblestone streets to the tranquility of Skogskyrkogården.

Historical environments, urban episodes and green spaces shape the tone and content of the walks.

Street with cobblestones and people. Water and buildings in the background

Mariaberget (Södermalm's heights) – guided city walk in historical quarters

The walk on Mariaberget takes place on foot in smaller groups, where lanterns are lit when dusk falls (during the winter months) and turns the city into a stage.
Here you will hear the stories right where they happen, in stone, stairs and heights.
We meet the people who lived here – before 1861, before running water, before obvious security.
The unique thing is how the story always takes place with you at eye level, listening and in the present.
The city talks, I interpret – and you take feeling and knowledge home in your chest.

  • 🌿 Sustainable travel with storytelling at heart
  • 🚶 Slow guiding – walk slowly, see more, feel more
  • 📜 History through people, senses and details
  • 💬 Responsive dialogue and inclusive meetings
  • 🕯️ Warm knowledge that touches, not sells
Large concrete cross on a grassy hill, stone-paved walkway. Sun and clouds in the sky

Join us for a city walk in Skogskyrkogården (Woodland Cemetery), one of Stockholm's most atmospheric World Heritage Sites. Here, forest, stone and architecture interact in a well-thought-out whole, shaped by Gunnar Asplund and Sigurd Lewerentz.

The chapels lead the steps through the landscape and provide space for both farewell and reflection. During the walk, we encounter personal human fates, and stories about, among others, Greta Garbo and the cat Ville.

This is a listening, slow guidance where architecture, nature and stillness are given space – and where you become part of the story, here and now.

Street with cobblestones leading up to a church with a tower and clock. Houses on both sides. Blue sky

Fredagskväll på Katarinaberget - berättelser, utsikter och smak

Följ med Den gröna guiden Stefan Maurbakken på en stämningsfull kvällsvandring över Katarinaberget, en av Södermalms mest dramatiska och historieladdade höjder. Här möts vidsträckta utsikter över Saltsjön med berättelser om eldsvådor, häxprocesser, fabriker och vardagsliv i trånga gränder.

Vi rör oss längs Roddargatan, Mosebacke och Fiskargatan – i spåren av Årstafrun, som med skarp blick dokumenterade stadens dofter, rörelser och röster.

Vandringen avslutas med något att tugga på och något i glaset – en smak av Sverige, att dela runt bordet.

En stadsvandring för dig som vill börja helgen med historia, utsikt och berättelser i långsamt tempo – och låta fredagskvällen ta form på Södermalm.

Paving with moss, people, building and sky

Fatburen – the secret lake

Vi kliver in via 1793 av Niklas Natt och Dag, där sjön fungerar som scen för klass, kropp och mysterium.
Vi passerar Pelarbacken och resterna av Dunderkransens kvarnstuga. Rutten fortsätter genom Fatbursparkens gröna rum där skugga och skratt samsas. Här ligger minnet av Hotel Göteborg som fond i fantasin.
Postmodern arkitektur ger området ny rytm i kontrast till den osynliga sjön under fötterna.
Vi möter stadens sociala lager genom folkliv, arbete och rykten som format Söders identitet.
Avslut sker vid Maria Magdalena kyrka där stillheten låter berättelsen sjunka in.
Du lämnar turen med en känsla av att platsen fortsatt lever i dialog med dig, inte bakom dig.

Low, yellow house with a green door and green shutters. Grassy ground in front. Trees in the background

In Barnängen, workers still dye and sew uniforms for the Caroleans in their imagination.
We step into stories about the girls at the reformatory and stop at Faggens pub, where rumors and community live on.
In Vitabergen, Elsa Borg tells of struggle, faith and the power to change living conditions.
The tour is unique because it allows working life, the voices of children and the transformation of the city to be expressed through the meeting, not through the filter of "the past".
The tour ends at Sofiakyrkan, where the view and the stories linger as you walk home.

Wooden sign with the text "Långholmen's florist garden" among greenery

Långholmen – a cellular walk between prison, island life and colony history

Långholmen carries a cellular history. In 1724, a spinning house was established here, a women's prison where the inmates were forced to work with textile production. Until 1825, women were imprisoned here for everything from begging to what was called "immoral living". As the business grew, a former malmgård was expanded to accommodate more prisoners.

When the women moved out, Långholmen became a male central prison with 127 cells. During the city walk, you get an insight into the prisoners' everyday life and how discipline, work and isolation characterized life behind the walls.

We see the Stora vakten, the prison walls and the director's residence - but also encounter another side of the island. In western Långholmen there are allotments, Karlhälls gård and traces of summer pleasures at Sofieberg. With the help of historical images, the island's transformation emerges, from punishment to tranquility.

The walk ends on Långholmen, near a café and toilets.

Wooden sculpture by a red cottage with a tiled roof. Inside the cottage there is a cleaning set

Fogelström's poor figures – the workers' Söder in the footsteps of the novel

We step in via City of My Dreams and move from Bryggartäppan to Lotsgatan through a city of brick, textile, toil and hope.
Here we meet the early women's strike and hear how women organize for better conditions in everyday life, not in the wings.


We pass Nytorget and get to know Lotten and Henning, where their story continues to take shape, reputation and direction in the same neighborhood we stand in today.
The tour is unique because it unites the people of the novel, the working life of reality and the dialogue with you who walk alongside - history feels like something that is going on, not something that is read out.

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