Vallentuna

Experience the exciting history of Vallentuna center - meet antiquity in the center only 20 km north of Stockholm! Hear about the brickyards, the residential community, when the railway came, about the Vendel-era warrior HaukR and the Bronze Age first settlement on an island. Go back via maps and older pictures. The tour includes * About the emergence of modern Vallentuna with the Station Society Vallentuna when the railway came here, and before and after that. Illustrated with sections of historical maps and pictures etc. * About Huset Tärningen, the origin of the house name and a little about the grave; about the Rinker system and the ancient Tuna - a powerful central place. About the division of the central square Tuna in the 400s or 500s and what then emerges as well as the fantastic finds and the Vendel-era Rinkern and the warrior HaukR’s grave * About the Bronze Age Vallentuna, then the first settlement that was excavated and the crown tomb that was built on a small island. * See a stone with preserved river mills or bowl pits, a stone where sacrifices were made to the gods Hear about this etc.