Guidebook for Strängnäs and surroundings (not updated for COVID-19)
The Andersson Family
Guidebook for Strängnäs and surroundings (not updated for COVID-19)
Food Scene
- Sundbyholm castle
- Wide, shallow sandy beach
- Cafe
- Close to the Ramsund stone carving
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Sundbyholms Slott AB
- Sundbyholm castle
- Wide, shallow sandy beach
- Cafe
- Close to the Ramsund stone carving
Hornudden Garden has a restaurant and a café that serves typical Swedish food made in their own kitchen from high-end locally produced produce. It's beautifully situated right on lake Malaren. The kids will love the toys and feeding the bunnies. Highly recommended!
http://hornudden.net/
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Hornudden
1 Aspö HornuddenHornudden Garden has a restaurant and a café that serves typical Swedish food made in their own kitchen from high-end locally produced produce. It's beautifully situated right on lake Malaren. The kids will love the toys and feeding the bunnies. Highly recommended!
http://hornudden.net/
The popular restaurant Edsbacka Bistro collaborates with local producers and serves dishes focussing on seasonal produce. Make sure to book a table early!strangnas@edsbackabistro.se
www.edsbackabistro.se/
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Edsbacka Bistro Strängnäs AB
6 VästervikstorgetThe popular restaurant Edsbacka Bistro collaborates with local producers and serves dishes focussing on seasonal produce. Make sure to book a table early!strangnas@edsbackabistro.se
www.edsbackabistro.se/
Grassagården illustrates the home of a wealthy bourgeois family at the turn of the last century, today host to a local homestead museum set in a beautiful garden brimming with flowers and herbs, as well as a paintbrush museum. At the café you can enjoy coffee and cake.
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Café Grassagården
2 KvarngatanGrassagården illustrates the home of a wealthy bourgeois family at the turn of the last century, today host to a local homestead museum set in a beautiful garden brimming with flowers and herbs, as well as a paintbrush museum. At the café you can enjoy coffee and cake.
This café is very popular with the locals. They have the best prices and sell in-house made baked goods, lunches and bread. In the summer you can also sit outside in the back of the café.
Cafe Prince
This café is very popular with the locals. They have the best prices and sell in-house made baked goods, lunches and bread. In the summer you can also sit outside in the back of the café.
If you want to enjoy delicious bread and local cheeses, or typical French baked good this is where you need to go. Printz Bageri also has locations in Strängnäs and Eskilstuna.
Printz Bageri i Stallarholmen
21 BrogatanIf you want to enjoy delicious bread and local cheeses, or typical French baked good this is where you need to go. Printz Bageri also has locations in Strängnäs and Eskilstuna.
in Sundbyholm you can enjoy lunch or maybe just a cup of coffee while looking out over Lake Mälaren. Close by there is a beach area and a playground.
The stone carving of 'Sigurd Dragonslayer' originating from year 1000 AD is not far away from this lovely restaurant.
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Sundbyholms Gästhamn
in Sundbyholm you can enjoy lunch or maybe just a cup of coffee while looking out over Lake Mälaren. Close by there is a beach area and a playground.
The stone carving of 'Sigurd Dragonslayer' originating from year 1000 AD is not far away from this lovely restaurant.
Sightseeing
Helgarö Kyrka
- Helgarö church from the 12th century
- 500 meters to Helgarö Kläpp "beach"
- Restaurants, cafes, shopping
- Train station for travelling to Stockholm
- Strängnäs cathedral
- Grassagården, originally built in the 17th century, has a cafe and theater and music events in the summer time
- Windmill from 1855
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Strängnäs
- Restaurants, cafes, shopping
- Train station for travelling to Stockholm
- Strängnäs cathedral
- Grassagården, originally built in the 17th century, has a cafe and theater and music events in the summer time
- Windmill from 1855
Strängnäs Cathedral, originally from the 13th century, is a landmark in Strängnäs.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Str%C3%A4ngn%C3%A4s_Cathedral
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Strängnäs Domkyrka
2 BiskopsgrändSträngnäs Cathedral, originally from the 13th century, is a landmark in Strängnäs.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Str%C3%A4ngn%C3%A4s_Cathedral
At Taxinge Castle you can sample Europe's largest cake buffet with over 60 different types of cakes and cookies. The wings of the castle are bustling with activities. There are little shops with products from artisans, artists and knickknacks.
Taxinge-Näsby Castle
At Taxinge Castle you can sample Europe's largest cake buffet with over 60 different types of cakes and cookies. The wings of the castle are bustling with activities. There are little shops with products from artisans, artists and knickknacks.
"The history of Mälsåker palace stretches back to the Middle Ages when it probably was a simple stone house. The castle is situated on the island Selaön in lake Mälaren. Mälaren is the third largest lake of Sweden and Selaön is known for its many ancient monuments."
Mälsåkers Castle is located 30 minutes away from Strängnäs or Mariefred by car.
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Mälsåkers Castle
4 MÄLSÅKERS GODS"The history of Mälsåker palace stretches back to the Middle Ages when it probably was a simple stone house. The castle is situated on the island Selaön in lake Mälaren. Mälaren is the third largest lake of Sweden and Selaön is known for its many ancient monuments."
Mälsåkers Castle is located 30 minutes away from Strängnäs or Mariefred by car.
Parks & Nature
The Ramsund carving is not quite a runestone as it is not carved into a stone, but into a flat rock close to Ramsund, Eskilstuna. It is believed to have been carved around the year 1030. The carvings depict imagery from the legend of Sigurd the dragon slayer. They were made during the Viking Age and they constitute the earliest Norse representations of the matter of the Nibelungenlied and the Sigurd legends in the Poetic Edda, the Prose Edda and the Völsunga saga. (From Wikipedia, edited)
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Sigurdsristningen
1 Sundbyholm RamsundThe Ramsund carving is not quite a runestone as it is not carved into a stone, but into a flat rock close to Ramsund, Eskilstuna. It is believed to have been carved around the year 1030. The carvings depict imagery from the legend of Sigurd the dragon slayer. They were made during the Viking Age and they constitute the earliest Norse representations of the matter of the Nibelungenlied and the Sigurd legends in the Poetic Edda, the Prose Edda and the Völsunga saga. (From Wikipedia, edited)
Entertainment & Activities
Arsenalen is the largest museum in Scandinavia showing military vehicles and showcases the development of military vehicles from the early 1900s to today.
Arsenalen
NäsbyholmArsenalen is the largest museum in Scandinavia showing military vehicles and showcases the development of military vehicles from the early 1900s to today.
Indoor water park - recommended by our guests! Family friendly and great for rainy days.
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Kokpunkten Actionbad
11 KraftverksgatanIndoor water park - recommended by our guests! Family friendly and great for rainy days.
At Parken Zoo in Eskilstuna there is a zoo, a petting zoo, an amusement park and an outdoor pool that will keep you busy the whole day.
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Eskilstuna Parken Zoo station
At Parken Zoo in Eskilstuna there is a zoo, a petting zoo, an amusement park and an outdoor pool that will keep you busy the whole day.
Arts & Culture
Gripsholm Castle is located in Mariefred on lake Mälaren. The castle is now a museum and entertaining for both young ones and adults. The castle was constructed in the 16th century and has held many members of the royal family as both guests and prisoners!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gripsholm_Castle
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Gripsholm Castle
Gripsholm Castle is located in Mariefred on lake Mälaren. The castle is now a museum and entertaining for both young ones and adults. The castle was constructed in the 16th century and has held many members of the royal family as both guests and prisoners!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gripsholm_Castle