Stockholm, explained
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
What is Storkyrkan? Storkyrkan is Stockholm’s oldest church, standing in Gamla Stan next to the Royal Palace. Formally named Sankt Nikolai kyrka, it has been the city’s cathedral (domkyrka) since 1942 and remains an active parish church of the Church of Sweden, used for royal weddings, christenings and state services as well as ordinary worship. … Read more
The Royal Palace of Stockholm (Kungliga slottet) is the official residence of the Swedish monarch and the seat of the Swedish royal household’s official functions. It is not a private home in the usual sense — the King and Queen live at Drottningholm — but the building where state ceremonies, receptions and official duties take … Read more
Stortorget is Stockholm’s oldest public square, sitting at the highest point of Gamla Stan, the medieval island that forms the historic core of the city. It was the site of the town’s original marketplace and, in 1520, of a mass execution known as the Stockholm Bloodbath. Today it holds the former Stock Exchange building, now … Read more
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