Travel Reference
In-Depth Information
( 0294-310 70; 11am-5pm mid-Jun-mid-Aug, noon-4pm Sat & Sun mid-Aug-mid-Jun)
The tourist office is inside the Stora Magasinet building, next to the
Wärdshus
restaurant.
Buy tickets here (adult/child Skr70/45) for a one-hour guided tour of the mansion and
grounds (2pm Saturday and Sunday May to June).
Getting There & Away
Take bus 811 from Uppsala to Östhammar, then change to bus 835 (about two hours, four
to eight daily, Skr80 one way).
Nyköping
0155 / Pop 53,038
Once the setting for one of Swedish royalty's greatest feuds, Nyköping these days is a
pretty, mellow town where the big activities include strolling along the river and sitting by
the harbour.
Sights & Activities
By Stora Torget, there's the old
rådhus
(town hall) and
St Nicolai Kyrka
, with a splendid
pulpit; free guided tours of the church run at 3pm Monday to Friday, and at 2pm Sunday.
Two rune stones and 700 Bronze Age rock carvings decorate
Släbroparken
, about 2.5km
northwest of town.
Take a walk along the river: 'Sweden's longest museum', or so the publicity goes. For
through town on its way around the county. In summer you can also explore the nearby
ar-
chipelago
; enquire at the tourist office, or via Trosa Rederi (
www.trosarederi.se
)
.
Sörmlands Museum
MUSEUM
(
0155-24 57 20;
www.sormlandsmuseum.se
;
11am-7pm Jun-Aug, to 5pm Sun & with scheduled
programs rest of year)
Inside the grounds of Nyköpingshus, Sörmlands Museum includes
Kungstornet
(King's
Tower), a whitewashed four-storey castle tower;
Gamla Residenset
, the old governor's
