Things to see and do Gammelstad

These red huts with white windows and sills are unique. They were built to allow parishioners who lived far away to come and attend church services and therefore to stay for a few days. Even today this tradition is respected and the owners cannot live here all year round! At number 253, located at Framlänningsvägen, the cottage Kyrkstuga is open during the summer months. Built around 1750, it reflects the constructions made by the bourgeoisie at that time.

This museum allows you to discover different types of old dwellings and presents the way the inhabitants lived 100 years ago. Indeed, Hägnan is an archaeological site of the ^14th century where there was a presbytery. Today the village has been recreated around this symbolic place. It is a real work of reconstitution and not of reconstruction which was carried out. The oldest houses are from the ^18th century and the interior of the houses is richly decorated.

Old Catholic church built in the ^15th century and consecrated in 1492, the interior has magnificent frescoes that were for a time covered (^18th century), they date from the late Middle Ages and come from the school of Albertus Pictor. In the center, the wooden tabernacle relates the Passion of Christ, one of the most beautiful in Sweden, made in Antwerp around 1520 by a Flemish master. The baptismal font, the pulpit and the murals harmonize perfectly with the organ, inaugurated in 1971, which consists of 4,200 pipes made in Gammelstad.

This restaurant, whose name is difficult to mouthful by us, serves refined cuisine concocted by a Norwegian chef. The servings are small and very well presented. It is more gastronomy than anything else but amateurs will appreciate. Also a beautiful wine card.