Walking in Stockholm

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Stockholm is a true European city that has all necessary modern facilities, well-developed business and fascinating entertainment. As most big cities in Europe, it stands for natural and human beauty. People try to stay fit and fashionable.
Sport takes a dominating part in the lives of Stockholm people. First of all, the percentage of cars in the city is one of the lowest in Europe. Instead of cars, people use motorbikes, scooters, bicycles or simply walk.

Walking can be called a special kind of sport. The fact that Stockholm has one of the most interesting and even magical Stockholm subway does not make locals lazy bones. People prefer to be active, hence healthy, hence beautiful.

Of course running is considered to be more useful but Stockholm is a city of working people, who usually don’t have time or conditions for it. Moreover, walking doesn’t require special clothes and can be done in any place and any time.

It is believed that walking burns half of amount of calories we burn during running or bicycling. For an average person of 70 kg one hour of walking burns up to 700 calories. It is almost unbelievable how many people prefer walking to cars. It is an ordinary thing to see crowds of people who enjoy nice Stockholm weather and magical architecture both day and night.

Plus walking in such a beautiful city as Stockholm, won’t even feel like exercising. Walking through unbelievable aged buildings, along quires and theaters will be more than pleasant for anybody.

Tourists, who come to the city, are offered countless sightseeing tours. It can be a bus tour, a bicycle tour or even a canoe tour. Walking tour takes one of the first places in the list of the most popular sightseeing tours. The main reason of such popularization lies in the same principle of doing something pleasant with something useful.

If you order a walking tour, you will have a chance to see “Storoget” – the main square of the city which cannot but impress every visitor with its stunning beauty of historical buildings. On your way, a professional guide will tell you everything about horrible events of Bloody Bath that took place in 1520, than he will take you to the oldest narrow streets and historical yards of the charming Stockholm.