Stockholm Palace
The 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.
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Nicodemus Tessin the Younger designed the palace after the medieval Tre Kronor Castle burned in 1697, but the Great Northern War halted construction in 1709. Tessin died in 1728 before it was done; Carl Hårleman completed it and designed much of the Rococo interior. King Adolf Frederick moved in only in 1754. The 1,430-room building still houses active royal offices today.
What to look for
- The Hall of State and the Royal Chapel inside the palace
- The Rococo interiors completed by Carl Hårleman after Tessin the Younger's death in 1728
- The Treasury, part of the palace museums added after the palace's completion
Located in Gamla stan on Stadsholmen, directly beside the Riksdag building; Skeppsbron runs along the east side and Slottsbacken along the south.
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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.
- 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.
- NationalmuseumSweden's royal art collection, wrested from a bankrupt queen and given to the public — now in a fully restored 1866 palace on the water.