Where to stay in Årsta — by area
The right area depends on your trip. Here's who each one suits.
Årsta centrum
- a local, residential base
The model nineteen-fifties square sits a short ride from Gullmarsplan, but beds are few. Lodging is scarce in this area; reserve in advance.
Most visitors stay in Södermalm →Årstaskogen
- woodland and water walks
Wooded slopes above Årstaviken with no real lodging nearby. Lodging is scarce in this area; reserve in advance.
Most visitors stay in Södermalm →
Årsta — common questions
What is the best area to stay in Årsta?
Årsta centrum: a local, residential base. Årstaskogen: woodland and water walks.
About Årsta
What are the main landmarks in Årsta?
The square is the landmark. Årsta centrum, built in the nineteen-fifties as a model community hub, gathered shops, a theatre, and meeting halls under one scheme and became a reference for Swedish town planning. Årsta kyrka serves the parish. Across the inlet, the Årstabroarna carry trains high over the water toward the city.
What is the history of Årsta?
Before the suburb there was a manor. The estate of Årsta gård, where the writer Fredrika Bremer spent much of her life, looked out over fields and the bay long before the housing came. The city grew south to meet it.
From the nineteen-forties, blocks and the landmark centre rose on the slopes, turning farmland into a planned district.
Where is Årsta?
The district lies in southern Stockholm, in eastern Sweden, on rising ground above Årstaviken and linked to Södermalm by the Årstabroarna bridges.