14 Stunning Architecture Landmarks in Stockholm
14 landmarks with verified facts and stories
Fotografiska
Södermalm, Stockholm, Sweden
The building you are looking at was not designed for art.
Gamla Stan (Old Town)
Södermalm, Stockholm, Sweden
Gamla Stan is one of the best-preserved medieval old towns in Europe — a compact island of narrow cobblestone alleys, ochre and rust-coloured buildings, and the royal palace that has been the political and spiritual centre of Sweden since the 13th century.
Hallwyl Museum
4 Hamngatan, Skravelberget Mindre, Stockholm, 111 47, Sweden
Behind this unassuming facade on one of Stockholm's busiest shopping streets is a palace containing roughly fifty thousand objects, collected by one woman over one lifetime.
Katarinahissen (Katarina Elevator)
3 Katarinavägen, Södermalm, Stockholm, 116 45, Sweden
Look up.
Kungstradgarden Metro Station
Stockholm, Sweden
You are about to descend into what looks like an archaeological excavation that someone forgot to finish.
Marten Trotzigs Grand
81 Västerlånggatan, Södermalm, Stockholm, 111 29, Sweden
You are about to walk through Stockholm's narrowest street, and honestly, if you are claustrophobic, maybe just have a look from the entrance.
Moderna Museet
Exercisplan 4, Skeppsholmen, Stockholm
Moderna Museet is Sweden's national museum of modern and contemporary art — a Rafael Moneo-designed building on the island of Skeppsholmen that houses one of the finest collections of 20th and 21st-century art in Europe.
Riddarholmen Church
2 Birger Jarls torg, Södermalm, Stockholm, 111 28, Sweden
This is where Swedish kings come to rest, and it has been that way for nearly four hundred years.
Skogskyrkogarden (Woodland Cemetery)
122 Sockenvägen, Boo, Saltsjö-Boo, 132 46, Sweden
You are standing in the only working cemetery in the world that is also a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
Stockholm City Hall
1 Hantverkargatan, Kungsholmen, Stockholm, 112 21, Sweden
Every December, thirteen hundred of the world's most distinguished scientists, writers, and diplomats sit down for dinner in this building.
Stockholm Metro Art
Stockholm, Sweden
The Stockholm Metro is called 'the world's longest art gallery' — over 90 of the system's 100 stations are decorated with paintings, mosaics, sculptures, and installations by over 150 artists, creating a public art collection that you experience every time you ride the subway.
Stockholm Royal Palace
1 Slottsbacken, Södermalm, Stockholm, 111 30, Sweden
You are looking at one of the largest palaces in Europe.
Storkyrkan (Stockholm Cathedral)
1 Trångsund, Södermalm, Stockholm, 111 29, Sweden
Stockholm's oldest church has been standing here since at least twelve seventy-nine, when it first appears in the records, and it was consecrated to Saint Nicholas in thirteen oh six.
Tyska Kyrkan (German Church)
16 Svartmangatan, Södermalm, Stockholm, 111 29, Sweden
The tallest building in Gamla Stan is not Swedish.
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