Stockholm
Where past and future live together
The capital of Sweden was a nice discovery for me. I will be referring in this post to the City of Stockholm (Stockholm stad in Swedish), which is the most populous municipality in the Nordic countries, not to the extended metropolitan area or the surroundings.
Old Town ( Gamla Stan )
So, first of all, there is the Old Town, with cobbled streets and colorful 17th- and 18th-century buildings. Gamla Stan is one of the largest and best preserved medieval city centers in Europe, and one of the foremost attractions in Stockholm. It is home to the medieval Storkyrkan cathedral, the Nobel Prize Museum and the Royal Palace, the king’s official residence and one of the largest palaces in the world with over 600 rooms. In the middle of Gamla Stan is Stortorget, the oldest square in Stockholm. These are the main places to visit but it’s a good idea to discover all of the old town.
Old Town Square ( Stortorget )
The Royal Palace is the official residence and major royal palace of the Swedish monarch. The offices of the King, the other members of the Swedish Royal Family, and the Royal Court of Sweden are here.
Coat of arms of Stockholm
Storkyrkan Cathedral
Nobel Prize Museum
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Djurgarden
View on Djugarden island
Djurgården is a beautiful recreation area with lots of monuments, museums and historical buildings. Here you can also find the amusement park Gröna Lund, the open-air museum Skansen, the small residential area Djurgårdsstaden, yacht harbours, and extensive stretches of forest and meadows.
Skansen is the first open-air museum and zoo in Sweden. It is my favorite place of all in Stockholm. That’s why I’ll dedicate a whole post to Skansen only, to keep this one shorter as well.
Other museums in the area are Nordiska Museum, Vasa Museum, Biologiska Museum, Viking Museum, Spirits Museum, ABBA the Museum and Junibacken, all in walking distance from one another. You can visit all of them in the order I mentioned here, but the one that impressed me most is Vasa Musem:
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Hallestad Belfry in Skansen
Biologiska Museum
Vasa Museum displays the only almost fully intact 17th century ship that has ever been salvaged, the 64-gun warship Vasa that sank on her maiden voyage in 1628. This is allegedly the most visited museum in Scandinavia and you should definitely give it a go.
Junibacken offers a ride on a Story Train into the world of Astrid Lindgren’s stories, which I like a lot. Although it’s a children’s cultural center, the adults can enjoy it as much. There are amazing exhibitions and theater performances, based not only on Astrid Lindgren’s stories, but on works by other Nordic region’s authors of children’s books.
The tivoli Gröna Lund is an attraction of itself and is the best place for adrenaline junkies or if your favorite band is having a concert there. It’s also a heaven for children, as they have special kiddie rides and entertainment for children. It’s Sweden’s oldest amusement park and it’s very nice to take photos of it from a distance, if you’re as afraid of heights or rollercoasters as I am. The best panoramic place for that, in my opinion, is Fjällgatan, a street high up on the edge of a cliff with a fantastic view of the city. Skansen also offers some points where there is a good view of Gröna Lund.
You can guess what are the rest of museum about from their name.
Vasa Museum
Junibacken/ Nordiska Museet in the back
Grona Lund
The City Hall
Stockholm City Hall
Laid-back Kungsholmen island, located in Lake Mälaren is home to the Stockholm City Hall, where the annual Nobel Prize ceremony is held in its banquet hall. The Stockholm City Hall is the building of the Municipal Council for the City of Stockholm in Sweden. It is considered one of Sweden’s foremost examples of national romanticism in architecture and represents one of Stockholm’s major tourist attractions. Because I am an architecture enthusiast I will dedicate a separate post for this one. Click the button below to read more.
Sergels Torg
Sergels torg is the most central public square in Stockholm with the plaza partly overbuilt by a roundabout centered on a glass obelisk. South of the square you can see the cultural centre Kulturhuset and also the Stockholm City Theatre. The square is connected to an underground mall and the T-Centralen metro station.
From here you can go to the pedestrian street Drottninggatan, lined with numerous stores and shops, often crowded with tourists. This is the site of the 2010 Stockholm bombings and of another terrorist incident, a deadly truck ramming in which five people died and fifteen more were injured. After that, there were installed big concrete lions from the streets crossing Drottninggatan.
Skeppsholmen and Kastellholmen
To end this post on a positive note, I’ll share this photo of the Gilded Crown on Skeppsholmsbron. The Skeppsholmsbron bridge is 165 metres long and connects Blasieholmen to Skeppsholmen which is connected to Kastelholmen. Skeppsholmen is a compact island, known for the Moderna Museet, which exhibits works by Picasso, and the Östasiatiska Museet with traditional Asian art. The small, adjacent island of Kastellholmen has a quaint, turreted 19th-century castle.
So much for now about Stockholm City, thank you for reading, hope you enjoyed it.
Kastellet in Kastelholmen
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