Stockholm's Forgotten Piratesby Sweden History Tours
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- go on an exciting and different guided city walk about historical pirates from the north. Discover the area around the former Nybroviken, about forgotten wrecks under Kungsträdgården mixed with exciting stories about e.g. The Vittal brothers who put terror into the seas in the Middle Ages. Hear about known and unknown pirates and the 17th century system that supported them. Discovered Cecilia Vasa — Gustav Vasa's sister who plundered the English until she received the value of her seized estate, the feared Vitthal brothers, the king's legal pirates — the privateers — and the Admiralty on Skeppsholmen, about the background of famous philurs such as Af Chapman and other wild sailors. Start at the Statue of Liberty's Source at Norrmalmstorg.
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Stockholm's Forgotten Piratesby Sweden History ToursAbout Sweden History Tours
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 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.