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Highlights include Bellmansgatan and Mariahissen, Djurgårdsbron, Fjällgatan, Galärvarv Cemetery, Gröna Lund, Ivar Lo's Park and Bastugatan twenty-one.
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Local name: Bellmansgatan / Mariahissen
The interrupted route from the steamboat to the upper streets preserves both a business calculation and an unsettling city legend.
The interrupted route from the steamboat to the upper streets preserves both a business calculation and an unsettling city legend.
Here the transition from the city to the former royal grounds begins, and you will learn why the current crossing was preceded by a series of unreliable bridges.
The final panorama comes together through two decisions: to clear the edge above the harbor and to preserve the modest houses opposite.
Here, the ship's story continues with the fate of the people found and the careful attempt to restore a name to one of them.
The park will help you see Djurgården not as a museum preserve, but as a place of family business, competition, and risky decisions.
An ordinary one-room apartment will connect the city slope with the rural workers’ struggle for cash wages.
The surviving name helps trace the route goods took from the shore to the city’s main market.
A brief chase inside the residence will explain why the present royal family belongs to a different dynasty.
The surviving medieval masonry will take the route back to a time when this slope was a dangerous approach to Stockholm.
One city address shows how private property can outlive its owner in a street name.
The fence and retaining walls will show the price paid to separate the shared view from private gardens.
The theater terrace will show just how far entertainment promoters were willing to go for a paying audience.
This stop will show how the household collection of two spouses grew into a museum for which only part of the planned building was ever constructed.
The final stop will conclude the route with a dispute over who decided the fate of a royal burial.
The finale will show an old training farm that gardeners turned into a self-financing cycle from garden bed to kitchen and back again.
Here Hazelius’s museum idea unfolds through the work of women who replaced the costumed mannequins in the old houses.
Here you will learn why the name of a vanished craft remained on the highest natural point in the old city.
Here, a pair of official gifts shows how the city and the monarchy expressed their mutual gratitude.
Here, the natural difference in water levels and the city's difference in elevation come together in a single transport hub.
A medieval sculpture will connect a personal vow, a military victory, and the struggle to govern Sweden.
The square will help trace how the promised reconciliation turned into the collapse of an entire political union.
The history of a shared house of worship shows how two language communities fought for the right to a single building.
The route’s main stop brings together a dangerous test, a first voyage, a search on the seabed, and the ship’s rescue over many years.
Nearest audio-route stop: Storkyrkan — 80 m in a straight line, route Gamla stan and Riddarholmen: Who Owned the City
Nearest audio-route stop: Riddarholmskyrkan — 60 m in a straight line, route Gamla stan and Riddarholmen: Who Owned the City
Nearest audio-route stop: Mårten Trotzigs gränd — 50 m in a straight line, route Gamla stan and Riddarholmen: Who Owned the City
Nearest audio-route stop: Köpmangatan — 50 m in a straight line, route Gamla stan and Riddarholmen: Who Owned the City
Nearest audio-route stop: Storkyrkan — 140 m in a straight line, route Gamla stan and Riddarholmen: Who Owned the City
Nearest audio-route stop: Galärvarv Cemetery — 50 m in a straight line, route Djurgården: museums, rides, and gardens
Nearest audio-route stop: Köpmangatan — 50 m in a straight line, route Gamla stan and Riddarholmen: Who Owned the City
Nearest audio-route stop: Stortorget — 120 m in a straight line, route Gamla stan and Riddarholmen: Who Owned the City
Nearest audio-route stop: Storkyrkan — 60 m in a straight line, route Gamla stan and Riddarholmen: Who Owned the City
Nearest audio-route stop: Gröna Lund — 70 m in a straight line, route Djurgården: museums, rides, and gardens
Nearest audio-route stop: Mårten Trotzigs gränd — 40 m in a straight line, route Gamla stan and Riddarholmen: Who Owned the City
Nearest audio-route stop: Gröna Lund — 60 m in a straight line, route Djurgården: museums, rides, and gardens
Nearest audio-route stop: Mosebacke and Södra Teatern — 50 m in a straight line, route Södermalm Above the Water: Heights, Elevators, and Old Streets
Nearest audio-route stop: Köpmangatan — 70 m in a straight line, route Gamla stan and Riddarholmen: Who Owned the City
Nearest audio-route stop: Mårten Trotzigs gränd — 80 m in a straight line, route Gamla stan and Riddarholmen: Who Owned the City
Nearest audio-route stop: Bellmansgatan and Mariahissen — 50 m in a straight line, route Södermalm Above the Water: Heights, Elevators, and Old Streets
Nearest audio-route stop: Gröna Lund — 80 m in a straight line, route Djurgården: museums, rides, and gardens
Nearest audio-route stop: Riddarholmskyrkan — 130 m in a straight line, route Gamla stan and Riddarholmen: Who Owned the City
Nearest audio-route stop: Storkyrkan — 140 m in a straight line, route Gamla stan and Riddarholmen: Who Owned the City
Nearest audio-route stop: Stortorget — 20 m in a straight line, route Gamla stan and Riddarholmen: Who Owned the City
Nearest audio-route stop: Riddarholmskyrkan — 130 m in a straight line, route Gamla stan and Riddarholmen: Who Owned the City
Nearest audio-route stop: Kungliga slottet — 80 m in a straight line, route Gamla stan and Riddarholmen: Who Owned the City
Nearest audio-route stop: Kungliga slottet — 70 m in a straight line, route Gamla stan and Riddarholmen: Who Owned the City
Nearest audio-route stop: Skansen — 50 m in a straight line, route Djurgården: museums, rides, and gardens
Nearest audio-route stop: Slussen and Katarinahissen — 50 m in a straight line, route Södermalm Above the Water: Heights, Elevators, and Old Streets
Nearest audio-route stop: Slussen and Katarinahissen — 40 m in a straight line, route Södermalm Above the Water: Heights, Elevators, and Old Streets
Nearest audio-route stop: Kungliga slottet — 30 m in a straight line, route Gamla stan and Riddarholmen: Who Owned the City
Nearest audio-route stop: Riddarholmskyrkan — 150 m in a straight line, route Gamla stan and Riddarholmen: Who Owned the City
Nearest audio-route stop: Köpmangatan — 90 m in a straight line, route Gamla stan and Riddarholmen: Who Owned the City
Nearest audio-route stop: Gröna Lund — 90 m in a straight line, route Djurgården: museums, rides, and gardens
Nearest audio-route stop: Tyska kyrkan — 70 m in a straight line, route Gamla stan and Riddarholmen: Who Owned the City
Nearest audio-route stop: Vasa Museum — 70 m in a straight line, route Djurgården: museums, rides, and gardens
Nearest audio-route stop: Stortorget — 110 m in a straight line, route Gamla stan and Riddarholmen: Who Owned the City
Nearest audio-route stop: Riddarholmskyrkan — 130 m in a straight line, route Gamla stan and Riddarholmen: Who Owned the City
Access and construction years come from OpenStreetMap and Wikidata, snapshot of August 25, 2026: database data, not a check on the ground.
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