Scandigrounds – Ales Stenar Audioguide & Österlen Tours

Ales Stenar

Sweden’s largest stone ship – on the ridge above Kåseberga, between sea and sky. Walks, day tours and a GPS audioguide with augmented reality, created by archaeologists.

OUR GUIDES

We, Polgara and Ylva, arrange guided walks and activities on selected dates throughout the year. These include special tours where Ylva explores the archaeology in greater depth, as well as thematic experiences centred around landscape, materials and memory. Our ambition is always the same: to offer more than facts alone, and to allow each visit to become an experience that lingers long after you leave.

We also offer experiences at other locations across Österlen, placing Ales Stenar within a wider context. The people who raised the monument did not live solely beside the stones. They lived in other places, travelled along ancient routes, traded, gathered and returned. As we move through the landscape, we follow traces of their world and come closer to the reality in which Ales Stenar once held meaning.

For groups, school classes and companies, we create tailored programmes based on your interests and wishes. Whether you are looking for a quiet and reflective experience or a more extensive arrangement, we are happy to help shape the right format together with you. Please feel free to get in touch, and together we can create something meaningful.

AUDIOGUIDE

Explore Ales Stenar at your own pace, whenever it suits you. Our audioguide is available at all times. With your phone and headphones, you move through the landscape stop by stop. Think you already know Ales Stenar? Along the way, the guide opens what most visitors never see: that parts of the monument were built using stones from much older graves, and that archaeologists discovered traces of a wooden post that may have been used to measure and lay out the entire structure. This is not a generic summary but an interpretation created for this place. Developed by archaeologist Dr Ylva Sjöstrand ☀️ Solstice Offer: ~~50 SEK~~ 30 SEK – try the first chapter free.

Your Guides

“Big skies, open fields. Stones that carry the voices of the ancestors. Come along and hear them speak on a guided tour with me.”
– Ylva Sjöstrand, PhD Archaeologist

“Between sea and sky, the past is never silent. Walk with me, and let the hidden stories come alive.”
– Polgara, Storyteller & Author

Audioguide & Augmented Reality

Curious?

The app is just a webpage on your phone, put in your headphones, and walk among the stones. A voice guides you from stop to stop. At certain points, hold up your phone and see how the landscape may have looked a thousand years ago, layered directly over what you see in front of you.

Try the first chapter of the audioguide for free and get a glimpse of what lies hidden behind the stones.
Continue anytime if you want to explore the full story.