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The Stockholm Public Library — Stockholms stadsbibliotek in Swedish — is the city’s main library building, on Sveavägen in the Vasastan district. It is famous chiefly for its architecture: a cylindrical, copper-domed rotunda designed by Gunnar Asplund and opened in 1928, widely cited by architectural historians as one of the defining works of Nordic Classicism. … Read more

Katarinahissen is a public lift and viewing platform on Södermalm that carries pedestrians up the steep rock face between Slussen, at water level, and Mosebacke torg, roughly 38 metres above. The current steel structure dates from 1935, replacing a wooden lift from 1883 — one of Stockholm’s oldest pieces of surviving public transport infrastructure. Where … Read more

Fjällgatan is a short cobbled street on the island of Södermalm, running along a ridge above Stockholm’s harbour. It is known for two things: a row of low wooden houses that survived the fires that destroyed most of Södermalm’s old timber buildings, and an open viewpoint over Gamla Stan, Skeppsbron and the water of Saltsjön. … Read more

Monteliusvägen is a pedestrian path that runs along a rock ridge on the north side of Södermalm, Stockholm’s southern island district. It follows the edge of a cliff called Mariaberget, roughly 500 metres long, with an open view north across the water of Riddarfjärden toward Kungsholmen, Riddarholmen and Stockholm City Hall. Where exactly is Monteliusvägen? … Read more

The Avicii Arena is a large spherical indoor arena in southern Stockholm, used for concerts, ice hockey, handball and televised events such as Melodifestivalen. It opened in 1989 under the name Stockholm Globe Arena, was known for decades as Ericsson Globe under a sponsorship deal, and was renamed Avicii Arena in 2021 in honour of … Read more

Kungsträdgården — literally “the King’s Garden” — is a public park and square in central Stockholm, on the Norrmalm side of the water facing Gamla Stan. It began as a royal kitchen and pleasure garden in the 16th century and has been open to the public since the 18th century. Today it functions as the … Read more

Sergels Torg is the square at the centre of modern Stockholm, in the Norrmalm district: a sunken, triangle-paved pedestrian plaza set below a traffic roundabout, marked by a tall glass obelisk. It looks the way it does because it was built from scratch in the 1960s and 70s, after the city demolished the older district … Read more

Stockholm City Hall — Stadshuset in Swedish — is the building where Stockholm’s municipal council and administration are based. It is a working seat of local government, not a royal or national building, and it is also where the Nobel Prize banquet is held each December. Parts of it can be visited on guided tours. … Read more

Riddarholmen is a small island immediately west of Gamla Stan, joined to it by a short bridge. Its central building, Riddarholmskyrkan, is a former monastery church that became the burial place of Swedish monarchs from the seventeenth century onward, chosen because an earlier king was already buried there and successors followed the precedent for more … Read more