Old Town in Four Stops
The four things you’d walk straight past, in the shortest possible loop.
≈ 15 min · 4 stops
A city companion · Gamla Stan first
What’s around you worth knowing right now?
Stadlo is a small app for walking around Stockholm. Open it where you’re standing and it tells you what’s worth noticing within a few minutes’ walk.
Open Stadlo where you’re standing and it tells you what’s worth noticing within a few minutes’ walk.
A cannonball stuck in a wall. A street ninety centimetres wide. A statue the size of your hand that somebody knits a hat for every winter.
Free to use · No account · Nothing to plan
One of the things you’d walk past
There’s a cannonball in this wall
At Stortorget 7, on the corner with Skomakargatan, a dark iron ball is built into the façade. A popular legend says it was fired during Gustav Vasa’s siege of Stockholm and narrowly missed Christian II. The less dramatic explanation is more likely: it was placed in the rebuilt house in 1795, long after the fighting.
That’s a whole Stadlo story - a short read, and then you’re looking at a wall instead of a screen. There are dozens more like it on this one island.
How Stadlo works
Three steps, and the third one is putting the phone away.
- 01
Open it where you are
No account, no itinerary, no picking a tour first. Stadlo starts from wherever you happen to be standing - and only looks while it’s open.
- 02
See what’s near
Three to six things worth noticing, closest first, with roughly how long it takes to walk there. Curated, not every café on the block.
- 03
Look up from your phone
Every story ends by telling you exactly what to look for. Read it in under a minute, find the thing, carry on walking.
Not a map app · Not a booking site · Not a tour marketplace · No reviews, points or badges · Nothing to scroll forever
Starting with Gamla Stan
One neighbourhood,
properly.
Stadlo covers Gamla Stan - Stockholm’s old town. It’s one island, roughly a square kilometre of medieval alleys, and we’ve walked all of it.
Everywhere else, the app says so plainly rather than padding the map with places we haven’t looked at. Covering a whole city thinly would make Stadlo feel empty in every part of it.
More neighbourhoods will follow, one at a time, once each one is worth the walk.
If you’ve got longer
Or string a few of them together.
Some days you’ve got fifteen minutes and no plan. Stadlo can join a handful of nearby stories into a short walk - geographically tight, pausable, and finished before you get bored.
Still no commitment. Stop anywhere, pick it up tomorrow, or never.
Free mini-walksNearest first
Things Most People Walk Past
Five details hiding on the busiest street on the island.
≈ 20 min · 5 stops
There’s one longer walk written and sequenced by a local guide, for people who want an afternoon of it. Everything nearby stays free.
Early testing · Stockholm
Walk Gamla Stan with us.
We’re looking for a small group of people in Stockholm - residents, newcomers and visitors alike - to walk the island with an early build and tell us what’s dull, wrong or missing.
No meetings. One walk, whenever suits you, and an honest opinion afterwards.
- An early iPhone build, free, for as long as you want it.
- One email when there’s something to walk with. Not a newsletter.
- Your email and Stockholm-status choice. We don’t ask for your location.