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Most of Stockholm’s day-trip destinations are reachable without a car, but no single ticket covers all of them. Destinations inside Stockholm County — Drottningholm, Vaxholm, the inner archipelago — run on SL, the regional transport authority’s metro, bus and boat network. Destinations further out, such as Uppsala or Sigtuna, use regional trains and buses run … Read more
What is Skokloster Castle? Skokloster Castle (Skokloster slott) is a 17th-century Baroque palace on a peninsula in Lake Mälaren, roughly midway between Stockholm and Uppsala. It was built for a Swedish field marshal, was never fully completed, and now operates as a state-run museum holding one of Sweden’s largest collections of period furniture, arms, armour … Read more
Artipelag is a large, privately funded exhibition and event space on the island of Ingarö, part of Värmdö municipality east of central Stockholm. It shows changing exhibitions of contemporary art, design and craft rather than holding a fixed permanent collection, and it sits on the shore of Baggensfjärden, a bay of the inner archipelago. Where … Read more
What is Millesgården? Millesgården is a sculpture garden and museum on the island of Lidingö, built into a rocky hillside above Stockholm’s harbour. It was the home and studio of the sculptor Carl Milles and his wife Olga Milles, a painter, and it now operates as a foundation-run museum displaying his work outdoors on terraces … Read more
Mariefred is a small town on Lake Mälaren in Strängnäs Municipality, roughly 70 kilometres southwest of Stockholm. It is known chiefly for two things standing next to each other: Gripsholm Castle, a royal fortress on a promontory at the edge of town, and a compact, well-preserved 18th- and 19th-century townscape of wooden houses built around … Read more
Gripsholm Castle (Gripsholms slott) is a state-owned royal fortress on an island in Lake Mälaren, in the small town of Mariefred, roughly 70 kilometres southwest of Stockholm. Built in its current form by King Gustav Vasa in the 1530s and 1540s, it now houses Sweden’s national state portrait collection and is managed as a public … Read more
Birka was a fortified trading town on the island of Björkö in Lake Mälaren, active from roughly 750 to 970 AD. Excavations there have produced one of Scandinavia’s largest collections of Viking Age material — thousands of graves, imported silk and silver, weapons, and evidence of trade routes stretching to Baghdad and Byzantium. It is … Read more
Sigtuna is a small town on the northern shore of Lake Mälaren, about an hour from central Stockholm, traditionally dated to around 980 AD and generally described as Sweden’s oldest town still in continuous existence. It predates Stockholm by roughly 270 years and was the country’s earliest known centre for royal minting and Christian church-building. … Read more
Uppsala is a city of around 240,000 people roughly 70 kilometres north of Stockholm, built on the Fyrisån river in the province of Uppland. It is home to Sweden’s oldest university and to the Archbishop of the Church of Sweden, and its cathedral — Uppsala domkyrka — is the largest church in Scandinavia and the … Read more
Drottningholm is a royal palace on the island of Lovön in Lake Mälaren, about 11 kilometres west of central Stockholm, built from 1662 for Queen Hedvig Eleonora and still partly used as a private residence by the Swedish royal family. UNESCO inscribed it in 1991 as Sweden’s first World Heritage Site, citing it as an … Read more
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