# Sweden History Tours - Stockholm's own time machine



Sweden History Tours have been around for 6 years doing high value quality tours. The company’s guides have served over 5000 guests.



The company was founded February 2015 as Time Travel Tours, starting with local tours and history walks in Swedish. We launched the first English transported tours in March 2016, and rebranded to Sweden History Tours in 2018.



This is a two man company, apart from ourselves we have several experienced guides we have been working with for several seasons.

They have all started out following several times beside another, on that tour more experienced, guide to learn.



All the company’s guides are authorized on the areas they are guiding to ensure you get a prime experience. Our carefully selected guides and hired guides are all full of knowledge who are backing up the tours.



## Short QaA about Our Tours

- We are offering different, entertaining and fact-based historical, cultural, royal and archaeological transported heritage day tours and city walks.
- The tour company have been around since 2015, for 5 years, and served over 3000 guests during that time. We have served both locals, schools, groups from the municipality as well as tourists and Travel Agents.
- All transported tours have central Stockholm hotel pick-ups within 4 kilometers from Stockholm central station. The city walks starts at a pre-destinatied fixed location.
- Our transported tours travel safely in vehicles like cars, minibuses or buses depending on group size. The tour vehicles includes First Aid Kits if a unlikely accident would happen as well as hand sanitizes.
- The transported tour times ranges either 3h, 5h or 8h from pick up until first drop off. The city walks are between 90min – 3h (and can be done longer if wished upon).
- Our tours have high value and are well liked witch can be seen by the feedback on the bottom of this page and on TripAdvisor and Google reviews. Our [Facebook page](https://www.facebook.com/timetraveltourssweden/) have over 2100 likes and followers.
- Our tour are offered both as private tours and small group tours (max 16 persons) as well as “just for you” custom-made tours. All tours have a personal touch depending on the guide.
- Our focus, and goal, is to get you out of Stockholm or Uppsala city to see the countryside and the real Sweden.
We visit the places where the history actually happened; the grave fields, Viking assembly sites, runestones, burial mounds, medieval churches, ruins, bridges and the beautiful nature of the countryside. We also offer different city walks in Stockholm city and Uppsala city apart from out-of-the-city-experience.

Sweden History Tours

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Välkomna på en spännande stadsvandring om historiska brott. Lösta som olösta.
Utforska spännande historier i de moderna delarna av Stockholm som Norrmalmstorg, Stureplan, Östermalmstorg som blir till bakgrundsscener till hiskerliga mordfall. Hör om fall som Grillska mordern, kakelungmördaren, studentskan som dödade den kvinna som hon bodde hos, Norrmalmstorgsdramat, Olof Palme, spioneri och kontraspionage samt flera andra spännande historier. Välkomna! Start sker vid statyn Frihetens källa på Norrmalmstorg.

Stockholmsmord - True crime

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 - Experience historical crimes from the 19th and 20th C, while doing a walking tour in the newer parts of Stockholm, visiting iconic mordern places who becomes backdrops of crime stories like Norrmalmstorg, Stureplan, Östermalm and Humlegården. Explore the background behind the Stockholm syndrome indicent in the Norrmalmstorgsdramat and why Stockholm syndrome is a thing. On this tour, full of Swedish crime cases old and newer (not crime novels) you will experience for Swedes famous real world crimes on this city walk from 20th c and 19th c in the modern parts of Stockholm. Hear about the noblemen who killed his family for money in 1920:s, a violent bank robbery, the student who murdered the women whom let her stay, the famous chimny killer, WWII spy stories and much more. Starting point are the statue Frihetens källa on Norrmalmstorg, an easy to find centraly located [spot.in](http://spot.in/) the hart of Stockholm city.

Stockholm syndrome tour and the modern city walk

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Upptäck det moderna Stockholm. Vi stadsvandringar i området runt Norrmalmstorg, Stureplan, Östermalmstorg  och andra delar du inte så ofta stadsvandrar i. Upptäck området runt Nybrohamnen, hur Östermalm fick det rykte det har och olika hus och byggnaders historia samt bakgrundent ill de områden vi rör oss i idag,

Fula och fina hus - det moderna Stockholm

Person - 1h

Person - 2h

Vandra i gamla stans gränder och upptäck medeltidens glömda stad. Få svar på frågor som "vilka hus är från medeltiden, hur ser man det?" och låt staden komma till liv genom historier om allt ifrån mat, utdrag från rättsprotokoll om småssker och mirakelberättelser. Uppptäck den spännande medeltiden och hur Stockholm såg ut med handel, renhållning och mer än så medan vi rör oss genom små gatstensbelagda gränder för att se på de spår som finns kvar i bevarade byggnader och gatunät.

Medeltida spår i Gamla Stan Stockholm

- gå en spännande och annorlunda guidad stadsvandring om historiska pirater från norden. Upptäck området runt forna Nybroviken, om glömda vrak under Kungsträdgården blandat med spännande historier om t.ex. Vittalebröderna som satte skräck i haven under medeltiden. Hör om kända och okända pirater och 1600-talssystemet som stödde dem. Upptäckt Cecilia Vasa - Gustav vasas syster som plundrade engelsmännen tills hon fått värdet av sitt beslagtagna gods, de fruktade Vittalebröderna, kungens lagliga pirater -  kaparna - och amiraliteten på Skeppsholmen, om bakgrunden till kända filurer som Af chapman och andra vilda sjömän. Start vid statyn Frihetens Källa på Norrmalmstorg.

Stockholms glömda Pirater

Utforska 1600-talets Stockholm och Stormaktstiden.

En tid när palats byggdes i Stockholm. En tid av diplomati och krig, när Sverige var en kraft att räkna med i Europa.

Lär dig om vanliga Stockholmares liv, om stora strider, och om hur pesten hemsökte Stockholms gator.

Vi möts utanför Riddarholmskyrkans huvudingång och går tillsammans till Gamla Stan.

1600-talets Stockholm (2 timmar)

Vuxen

Ungdom

Barn

Location: Old Town, Stockholm

Explore a hidden history, the history of women in Swedish history from the Viking age until today, as well as Stockholm city.

A hidden history full of hardship, pioneers and how new ways of checking the source materials can give fascinating stories into light.

Svensk kvinnohistoria (1 timma)

Come if you dare and leave as a changed person!

Welcome to a darker city walk taking you back in time. We'll explore the today upper class area Östermalms dark and haunted past. 

Expect bloody murders, horrific witches and the folklore of blood and bones. 

Explore a time travel back to when this was the outskirts of the city, when the military owned this part and soldier prostitution was in demand. Another stop back in time will be to when the WWII Superpowers spies meet at shady ale halls and taverns in the area.

Exiting spies stories will be mixed with stories of death, the 18th C pestilence outbreak, Stockholms Witch trials, public executions and famous thieves and other haunted stories of the past.

Come if you dare, and leave as a changed person!

Central meeting place just next to Kungsträdgården on Norrmalmstorg, outside the place where the famous "Stockholm syndrome" condition was coined.

Location: Stockholm, Sweden

Meeting point: Norrmalmstorg (Norrmalm Square), Stockholm

Places we visit: Östermalm

Östermalms blodiga historia (1 timma)

Taste, experience and explore autentic Swedish food on this food tour exploring Old Towns history but formost delicious food. 

Get a grip on the famous and wierdly Scandinavian "Fika culture" as well as typical sweets for the season.

Try out handmade meatballs and lingonberries, local cheese with jam and blueberries, drink some mead and have a taste of a "this store only"" special type of the Swedish herring (the non fermented one).

You'll also get a tour and tastings of a sweet shop as well as an unexpected suprise among the other local specialties on this food tour in Stockholm.

Dive deep onto the Swedish food in this old town tour. We’ll take you to several diffirent places that holds a lot of delights for the food loving traveler. 

This is for the traveller wanting to try real well-made Swedish food on places you can yourself go back to while visiting Stockholm. Free time are included for you to buy what you tasted, if you wish, before going back to the harbor or hotel.

Tre rätter i Gamla Stan (3 timmar)

Alla åldrar

Explore the area around Tegnerlunden in Stockholm with the history of Vasastan and Norrmalm. Hear about the Ghost park and Stockholms oldest technical high school, gruesome murders, the Swedish author Strindberg and a time when this was at the outside of Stockholm city and much more than that.

Explore the history of a more modern part of Stockholm city.

Meeting place at the statue of August Strindberg in Tegnerlunden park.

Vasastan & Norrmalms hemliga historia (1 timma)

Hear stories of 18th C naval warfare and tightliped secrets during WWII at a former naval base on Djurgården isle.

Included on this 2h tour is a visit and tour at The museum of Wrecks, Stockholms newest museu, as well as a enlightening and exiting city walk around the aread of Galärvarvet.

Explore stories from the former workshop areas, hear about the minesweaping hall history during WWII, stand where bombers and warships once where docked and where the first Swedish submarine Hajen was built.

Explore Galärvarvet, a former military secret right in the middle of Stockholm in an area used by the navy for ship repairs with buildings from 17th C until 1969.

Follow Galärvarvet's uniqe history with an expert tour guide telling fashinating stories of the place. showcasing showing the Swedish naval remains around the Vasa Museum and the areas rich history. 

Meeting place is at the Wasahamnen sign opposite of the main entrence of the museum of Wrecks.If you wish we can include that museum as a bonus (entrence free not included in the tour but can be bought at the museum).

Book your tour today!