Guided tours in Linköping
Sweden’s oldest monastery, bloodbath, Cathedral, mythical love and nail-biting hauntings
Sweden’s oldest monastery, bloodbath, the Cathedral with roots from the 12th century, legendary love stories, and thrilling ghost stories. Discover Linköping’s fascinating history through a guided tour with a guide or on your own!
In Linköping, you can take part in guided tours at several different attractions and places, and city walks, dramatized guided tours, and digital guided tours are also organized. Here you can read more about how to participate in guided tours.
Linköping’s Guide Club
Join Linköping’s Guide Club on a tour and experience Linköping’s dramatic past full of historical beauty and dark mysteries! The authorized guides tell about different places and eras through Linköping’s history in a knowledgeable and inspiring way. The Guide Club offers both open and tailored, traditional and dramatized guided tours for companies, schools, tourists, and students.
Discover the castle, monastery, and churches of Linköping with a guided tour
Sweden’s oldest monastery, massacre, a cathedral with roots from the 12th century, Axel von Fersen’s love story with the French queen Marie-Antoinette, or a really spooky ghost story. In Linköping’s history, all the ingredients are present – take part in the many fascinating stories with a guided tour where it all really happened!
Here you can read more about tours arranged at Linköping’s castle, monastery, and churches
Ekenäs slott
Linköpings Cathedral
Linköpings Castle and Cathedral Museum
Ljungs Slott
Nya Slottet Bjärka-Säby
Vreta Monastery Church and Monastery Ruin
Get the most out of museum visits with a guided tour
There’s so much more behind the scenes than you can see with the naked eye as a visitor – it’s truly worth booking a tour to make the most of your visit!
Guided tours in Gamla Linköping
Here you can choose between a shorter introduction or tours with different themes. Explore the houses and who lived there, and hear about the past people’s dreams and fates. You can also visit the historical gardens and learn about old folk medicine or how different garden ideals have looked in the past. See how a school day could look for children 100 years ago, or learn rope making, an ancient craft.
Read more about Gamla Linköping’s tours
Guided tours at the Air Force Museum
Book one of the museum’s ready-made tour themes such as the DC-3 that disappeared or the Swedish welfare state. It’s also possible to get a custom tour tailored to your own wishes and interests!
Read more about the Air Force Museum’s guided tours here
Guided tours in Linköping’s nature
Rolling pastures, inviting oak groves, forests, bird-rich wetlands and northern Europe’s largest oak landscape are just waiting to be discovered by you. Let a nature guide show you the way!
Östergötland’s nature and cultural guided tours
Linköping municipality’s nature guides
Folkungakretsen STF
Association Linköpings Ekopark
Nature Center
Östergötland Museum’s digital guided tours
With the help of your mobile phone, you can take a guided tour, on your own, whenever you have time! You can walk through Linköping and learn more about the artworks, architecture, the Middle Ages, or the small town of the 1800s and 1900s.
Read more about the city walks here
Östergötland Museum also offers four digital guided tours in the beautiful Öna cultural reserve!
Read more about the guided tours at Öna here
Storyhunting in Linköping – Forgotten tales of Berg
Welcome to Berg by Göta Canal, a place like no other! In this tour, history professor Dick Harrison will be your guide for today’s adventure. Walk at your own pace anytime of the day, Dick is always awake. In this walk, we will dive straight into Berg’s rich history and uncover the hidden stories of the place. We will travel back in time and visit nine specific years, each contributing to this unique place’s history, Sweden’s development, and our present. The guide is available in Swedish and English.
With the help of your smartphone (internet connection required) and a pair of headphones, follow the audio guide, Storyhunt uses your location via GPS to lead you from point to point. The tool has a radius of 20 meters before you can unlock your next story in the adventure. You can either download an app from Storyhunt or participate in the tour via the browser on your phone.
Storyhunting in Linköping – The Lost City of Linköping
A good day starts with a good laugh; so discover Linköping through comedian Ben Kersley’s playful eyes in the humorous story and audio guide about “The lost city of Linköping”! You start at Mickey’s beach café and then take yourself through central Linköping. Along the way, you encounter mysterious creatures with exciting stories. The walk takes about 90 minutes and is 4 km long. The guide is available in Swedish and English and your guide is Ben Kersley, who also wrote the script.
With the help of your smartphone (internet connection required) and a pair of headphones, follow the audio guide, Storyhunt uses your location via GPS to lead you from point to point. The tool has a radius of 20 meters before you can unlock your next story in the adventure. You can either download an app from Storyhunt or participate in the tour via the browser on your phone.
Experience Linköping’s art and culture with digital guided tours
In the Kulturpunkt app, you can access Linköping’s art and cultural heritage
through self-guided walks.
You can easily download the Kulturpunkt app to your mobile and be guided via the map function. In some places, there is also a QR code to help access the information. You are guided via text, film, and sometimes audio clips. How, when, and which walk you take is up to you. The walks are completely free and are aimed at those who are curious about Linköping’s cultural heritage and history.
The walks are produced by Linköping’s art and museums: Gamla Linköping, Passagen Art Hall, and Bild Linköping.
Explore Vallastaden with an audio guide
Vallastaden is one of Sweden’s most innovative neighborhoods. A dense, green, and mixed neighborhood teeming with architectural features and innovative solutions. Through an audio guide, you can listen to nine people’s stories about the architecture and ideas behind the neighborhood.
The audio guide is best enjoyed while strolling through Vallastaden’s quarters and actually seeing what you are being told about. But if you’re curious already, you can listen from wherever you are. The audio guide is available in both Swedish and English.
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