Himmelstalund Rock Carvings, Norrköping, Sweden

Himmelstalund is a large park famous for having one of Sweden's biggest collection of petroglyphs with more than 1660 pictures. Some of the depicted boats having a similar shape as the Hjortspring boat. Oldest features have been dated to the transition between the Late Neolithic and the Early Bronze Age (19201740 BC).

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mervi nieminen (2 years ago)
07/23 two nights with campervan. Peaceful, lots of space, clean toilets/showers, two nice young lads doing customerservice. Nice place!

Ian (3 years ago)
Nice campsite with clean bathrooms. Showers don't have seperate stalls, but that was not a limitation for us. Enough inside facilities to wash up, or cook if you did not bring anything to cook on. We were there only for one night with a tent, but had a much more positive experience than some other reviews.

umashankar Ramalingam (4 years ago)
Lot of spiders

SwedenMAK Travel (4 years ago)
Amazing place i have been

Eran Zehavi (4 years ago)
We were there for the ancient engraved stones, it was nice to see and find the drawings.

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