Riddarholm Church
Nearly every Swedish king is buried here — the one exception ended up in St. Peter's Basilica in Rome.
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This former 13th-century Greyfriars monastery on Riddarholmen island became the royal burial ground for monarchs from Magnus Ladulås through Gustaf V. The congregation dissolved in 1807, so what you enter is purely a monument — Gothic stone and baroque additions accumulating six centuries of Swedish royal history in one quiet room.
What to look for
- The cast-iron spire, which replaced the original Flemish-designed one destroyed by a lightning strike on 28 July 1835
- Armorial plates of the Royal Order of the Seraphim lining the walls — each coat of arms carried over from the Royal Palace after a knight dies
- The mix of Northern European Gothic and baroque architecture visible in the fabric of the building itself
Sits on Riddarholmen island, a short walk from the Royal Palace; the church functions only for burial and commemorative purposes, not as an active congregation.
Riddarholm Church is one of 34 sights worth the detour in Stockholm, all bundled offline in Voyage GO — download the Stockholm pack and it sits on your map with no signal, filling your travel passport the moment you walk past.
More to see in Stockholm
- Royal Swedish Academy of SciencesThis is the body that picks up the phone to tell physicists and chemists they've won the Nobel Prize.
- Avicii ArenaA 110-metre sphere that serves as the Sun in the world's largest scale model of the solar system — and you can walk right up to it.
- Skogskyrkogården (The Woodland Cemetery)A 1920 cemetery built on old pine-covered gravel quarries that went on to reshape how the world designs burial grounds.
- Stockholm PalaceThe same ground has held a royal residence since the 1250s — the current palace took nearly six decades to finish, outlived its architect, and the Rococo interiors are largely unchanged.
- Vasa MuseumA 64-gun warship that sank on its maiden voyage in 1628 — and is still almost entirely intact.
- Skansen150 actual Swedish buildings, shipped piece by piece to one hill — a whole country preserved before industry erased it.