up Here it is to watch. Over the rooftops of Stockholm, a narrow path of view point leads to the view point. Only about 30 inches wide, 330 metres long. An adrenaline kick of 43 metres.
A great incident of the people of the company Takvandring on German: roof walks. However, not a good idea for people who are not afraid of heights or suffering from fear of heights.Because part of the narrow bridge leads to the roof directly over the roof. To the right and to the left it goes in depth, a railing to Hold on to is missing. But afraid of falling to the Ground, you need to have no one. So that number at the end of Stockholm-crash-top-guests and bad Image for the dizzying Tour, the Takvandring Guides, you will be equipped with a protective helmet and a climbing harness to a steel cable running, is guided in a Rail on the side. This reduces the risk significantly, increases the sense of security and detracts not a bit from the enjoyment, to experience Stockholm from above. So good it had not, at the time, “Karlsson from the roof”, the amusing main character from Astrid Lindgren’s children’s novel. With a Propeller on the back, he was not dependent on secure webs.
the history of the city as a chamber of horrors
Stockholm from a bird’s perspective – the experience that goes to the roof of the old Reichstag building on the small island of Riddarholmen. “In an hour You can see from here quite a lot. We start at the views of the old town, the Gamla Stan, and come via of Södermalm and Kungsholmen to the modern “Citycenter”, says Robin, one of the roof leaders of Takvandring. A good place to Start for a stay in the capital, which was, over the centuries, from Sweden, the French and the Germans built. In the process, you learn a lot about the Swedish metropolis that spreads over 14 Islands in mälaren. A bit of history of the city, a bit of a SideShow, a bit of a state policy, a bit of gossip over the king’s house. “Actually, we look from up here on 800 years of history,” announces Robin, after he has brought us with the Lift to the roof. Start the Tour through the epochs is in the middle of the 13th century. Century. It continues to the time when Sweden was a super power in Europe. Then the industrialization of the country and the mid – 1960s to follow, as the modern city centre was built. Tiny cars and people from up here to appear.
In the stories told by the Guide with a 360-degree view of the city, Birger Jarl, founder of Stockholm, built around 1250, the first fortress to protect against the marauding Vikings. Right there, where today the famous old town with the narrow, narrow streets. “By the way, part of what we see here is built on the garbage of the middle ages.” It is also a question of the monks, the earlier on the island of the knights, Riddarholmen lived, the Royal family, the temporary quarters for a detailed examination of the palaces of the nobility, the this in 17. Century had built on the Mini-island. City of fathers with ambitious plans on diving. The 18-storey high-rise buildings, for the 400 wood houses were demolished, the gain contours. They changed the image of Stockholm.
of Course, Robin also tells of Alfred Nobel, the founder of the Nobel prize and inventor of dynamite, was born in 1833 in Stockholm. In experiments with Nitroglycerin, it always came back to a devastating series of explosions and fatal accidents. The stories in the heights of entertain. Also because right next door and 43 meters deep, the sun’s rays in the water, the boats peacefully round draw and the tower of the Riddarholmskyrkan, the Royal burial Church, near to the seem. Just like a strange, Golden bird, perched on the Church and how a Mix of Swan and goose looks like. “This is supposed to be a Pelican,” smiles Robin: “The wished for king Gustav Adolf II to his burial place. But since pelicans do not occur in Sweden, and the artist had no idea how one looks like, he created just a very big bird.” The accompanied now the successor of Karlsson on the roof on the hike, a stop must be inserted, to Look and Wonder. The trip was supported by Visit Stockholm
arrival: flight with Swiss or SAS from Zürich to Stockholm www.swiss.com; www.sas.com
organiser: Stockholm-Arrangements in Scandinavia-specialist Kontiki, www.kontiki.ch
Stay: Miss Clara Hotel, in an Art-Nouveau building with a nice Restaurant, a double room from 140 Fr., www.missclarahotel.com
Rooftop-guide: duration: approximately one hour, 65 Fr. p. p.; www.takvandring.com
General information: www.visitstockholm.com (Sunday newspaper)
Created: 18.01.2019, 15:42 PM
