Be together in the present - enjoy silence and friendship on a 3-day trip along the St. Olavsleden from Stiklestad to Tautra. Enjoy good food and interesting conversation, get to know yourself and history better - welcome as a pilgrim. An inner and outer journey Being a pilgrim is an inner and outer journey. Take a couple of good friends, a sister and your mother with you on a pilgrimage along the St. Olavsleden between Stiklestad in Verdal and Tautra in Frosta. We have created a three-day journey on foot and by bike and offer a ready-made travel package that can easily be adapted to your wishes and needs. Day 1 Arrival Stiklestad Get to know the site and enjoy the first dinner together. Day 2 Stiklestad – Munkeby 21 km You are walking parts of the St. Olavsleden pilgrimage route that runs from Stiklestad to Nidaros (Trondheim). The trip takes 5-6 hours, is 21 km long and the terrain is easy to walk in with forest and fields. The areas you walk through were focal points in the Norwegian Viking Age and the Middle Ages. When you arrive at Munkeby Herberge you will get a cozy and comfortable accommodation in the barn or storehouse. After you have relaxed, you will be served a dinner with local flavours. Day 3: Munkeby - Falstad - Tautra You start the day by traveling to Munkeby Mariakloster at 7.00 a.m. to take part in the time prayer which starts at 07.15 a.m. Here you are with the monks in the monastery. After the time prayer, you eat a good breakfast at Munkeby Herberge. Here are also the bikes you will use when you cycle to Falstadsenteret (26 km on asphalt) and further on to Tautra (36.5 km on asphalt). On your way to the Falstad centre, you cycle through the wooden town of Levanger. A visit to Levanger Fotomuseum is also recommended here. The chemist Harald Renbjør, a pioneer in Norway in terms of color photography, lived here in Levanger and at the museum they have set up his workshop identical to the original and every year exhibit wonderful copies from his rich legacy of negatives and other temporary exhibitions. When you cycle further you will come to Alstadhaug church, one of Norway's largest burial mounds and Norske Skog's large factory at Fiborgtangen. It is a short detour to take the trip up to the church and it is open in the summer. It will then be rural again along the fjord and you will arrive at Ekne and the Falstad center where you will be served a good lunch with local flavours. The center is located in the main building of the former German prison camp SS Strafgefangenenlager Falstad. The camp was one of the largest prison camps in Norway during World War II. Today, Falstad is a memorial site and center for human rights. Here you can take a tour of the permanent exhibition and use the digital reconstruction of the site to get to know the history of the Second World War better. The Falstad center is located in a distinctive historical landscape. Falstad offers accommodation and has a kitchen that serves delicious, high-quality food. When you cycle on to Taura, we recommend a stop in Falstadskogen. It is believed that over 200 prisoners of war were executed here, but there is uncertainty regarding the number and identity. When you come to Frosta, a stop at the Frostatinget is recommended. It is the largest of the four lagthings from the Middle Ages in Norway. Frostatinget has an almost thousand-year history of law and order! It was the area of law for the people of Trønder in the Middle Ages. Trøndelag got its name from the old word for law - log, and the Frostating Act applied here. At Logtu, in 1914 a commemorative boat was erected surrounded by a stone from each of the 12 counties covered by the Frosting Act. There were originally 8 Trønder counties, and later Namdal, Nordmøre, Romsdal and Oppdal were added. Tautra is an island in Frosta municipality and here are the remains of Tautra Kloster, a Cistercian monastery believed to have been founded in 1207 by monks from Lysekloster near Bergen. The monastery was in operation until 1537 when monasticism was abolished in Denmark and Norway in connection with the Reformation. Close to the monastery is Klostergården, where you will spend the night and eat a lovely 3-course dinner. Klostergården also has a farm shop with all of their own farm food products, their own beer outlet, local food produced by other operators in the area, creams and soaps from Mariaklosteret, interiors, books, textiles, spices and much else good for the palate, to name a few. If you wish, you can take a short detour to Tautra Mariakloster. They have a visitor exhibition and shop. Day 4 After a good night's sleep, you can choose whether you want to cycle to Åsen in Levanger to take the train to Verdal and Stiklestad, cycle to Trondheim to take the train back from there or order the Pilgrims' boat that will take you to Trondheim.
