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Everyday Grandeur is a living map of the heritage in your everyday life – the Art Nouveau doorway, the water tower, the country church. Stand in front of a building and find out what it is. Walk on and find the next one.
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Grandeur is right around the corner.
Grandeur is not reserved for castles and cathedrals. It sits in the Art Nouveau doorway on your way to work. In the water tower on the edge of town. In the country church you always drive past.
This is the heritage that rarely makes headlines – but quietly carries the soul of a whole style, architect or era. The app makes it visible. Every site on the map was added by someone who stopped and looked up.
The mission? To move history from dusty textbooks straight into your pocket. To turn every walk into a treasure hunt and every block into an open-air museum.
The map is alive, and you are its curator.
Everyday Grandeur
Four steps from everyday life to discovery.
Open the app. Home shows the site right where you stand – and what is worth a walk nearby, with walking time.
The map is full of pins. Search by city, architect or style, filter, and tap a site to read more.
Stand within 150 metres of the site and check in. The visit joins your collection and earns XP.
Found something missing? Press and hold on the map. A photo, a name and a category is all it takes.
Five pins – one for each kind of heritage.
Country churches, chapels and cathedrals. Often the oldest building in town.
Apartment buildings, properties and commercial spaces – the city's façades, block by block.
Villas, townhouses, farms and holiday homes. The private heritage.
Ruins, abandoned houses, bridges, towers and lighthouses. What you see from afar.
Statues, fountains, obelisks and memorials.
Every site can have a style – and every style has its own icon. More than a hundred building styles, from Romanesque to Brutalism, plus the monuments' and landmarks' own types. Wondering what sets Art Nouveau apart from National Romanticism? The style pages explain.
Read about the styles →Five views that turn the city into a museum.
Home
Home starts where you are. The site right here, sites near you with walking time – and a question: do you know which is the oldest building nearby?
The map
Every category has its own pin. Search for a city, an architect or a style. Filter out all the Art Nouveau in Gothenburg – or let yourself be surprised.
The site
Tap a pin. There are photos, build year, style and architect – and the story of why the site is worth stopping for. At the bottom: the guestbook.
Collections
Collections are themed sets – buildings from the 1800s, Art Nouveau in your city. Next to them: the buildings celebrating a big anniversary this year. Celebrate with a visit.
The profile
Every visit shows on your profile. There is your level, your badges, your stats and your favourite site – and the explorers you follow.
Every visit counts.
Check in and collect XP. Climb ten levels – and unlock badges in bronze, silver, gold and platinum. The top tier has the green of verdigris, like the copper roofs of old churches.
How to earn XP
The ten levels
BronzeSilverGoldPlatinum
Check in at your first site.
1
Visit sites.
1050100250
Visit churches.
5153050
Visit monuments.
5153050
Visit landmarks.
5153050
Visit buildings.
5153050
Visit houses.
5153050
Visit different architectural styles.
361015
Visit sites from different centuries.
35810
Visit sites built before 1500.
151020
Visit different cities.
3102550
Add sites to the map.
1102550
Be first to check in where others added.
1102550
Write in guestbooks.
11050100
The little extras.
Gather sites before a trip. Pin the list to Home, show it on the map or share it. Invite friends who follow you back – then everyone can add.
Every site has a guestbook. Leave a greeting, a memory or what you spotted on the façade.
Follow others and see their check-ins, new sites and badges under Following.
Share a site, a list or your profile. The link opens in the app – or on the web for anyone who doesn't have it.
Just as beautiful in daylight as on an evening walk.
English, Swedish, Danish, Norwegian, German, French, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, Polish and Ukrainian.
No. Everyday Grandeur is free to download and use, on both iPhone and Android.
Not to look around. The map, the sites and the styles are open to everyone. To check in, add sites, sign guestbooks and collect badges you need an account – it's free and takes seconds.
Wherever someone has added them. Most are in Stockholm and Gothenburg, but there are also sites on Gotland, in Prague and in Bruges. Is your city missing? Add the first site.
Within 150 metres. The app only uses your location to confirm that you are there.
Pontus Bovin, a building conservator trained at Uppsala University, Campus Gotland. He also writes the style texts on this website.
Directly in the app under Profile → settings, or by email. Here's how. See also our privacy policy.
The app · free
Download Everyday Grandeur and see what is around the corner. Free for iPhone and Android.
