STOCKHOLM SUEDE THE CAPITAL OF SCANDINAVIA

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Plan de la ville de Stockholm

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STOCKHOLM CAPITAL OF SCANDINAVIA VISIT GUIDE STOCKHOLM

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STOCKHOLM CAPITAL OF SCANDINAVIA VISIT GUIDE STOCKHOLM

Sveriges Riksbank, the Swedish Central Bank

This is probably one of the world's oldest bank buildings.

Nobel Museum, The Nobel Prize, The Nobel Prize Laureates, Alfred Nobel

Stortorget kv. Radstugan

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The Royal Palace vue d'en haut

The Royal Palace

The Hall State was finished in time for the Parliament of 1755. Th monarch held State openings of Parliament here until 1975.

Museum Tre Kronor

The Royal Palace, la garde

Rikssalen The Hall of State - The Tre Kronor Museum - Gustav III's Museum of Antiquities - The Royal Armoury

The Tre Kronor Museum : The museum tells the story of the original castle up until the great fire of 1697, a tranformation from a fortress for defence in a Renaissance palace.

Gustav III's Museum of Antiquities : This museum, one of the oldest in Europe, was first opened to the general public in 1794. The sculptures were acquired by Gustav III in Italy during the 1780's.

The Royal Armoury : In this museum you can see splendid garments worn at coronations and royal weddings, gilded carriages, weapons and suits of armour.

Gustav III's Museum of Antiquities - The Royal Armoury

Riddarholmen

The Riddarholmen Church

The Riddarholmen Church is a museum, a royal burial church, and the church of the Order of the Serap. The church is the oldest preserved building in the city and its only surviving mediaeval monastery church. It was built by the Franciscans around the time of the death of King Magnus Ladulas in 1290. The Franciscan friars were expelled in 1527, due to the Reformation. The church became a parish church and the monastery buildings were put to secular use. King Gustav Vasa and his sons intentionally chose other burial churches. The church was restored at the end of the 16th century. A high est tower was added and new tombs were built to commemorate kingsd Magnus Ladulas and Karl Knutsson.

The Riddarholmen Church again became a royal burial church with the funeral of Gustav II Adolf in 1634. Since then, all monarchs until Gustav V were buried here, except Queen Kristina. During the 17th century, generals and nobility also built mortuary chapels at the church. Because of a mythical tie to the time of King Magnus Ladulas, it became the church of the Oder of the Seraphim when the order was instituted in 1748.

The Riddarholmen Church

STOCKHOLMS STROM

DROTTNINGHOLM

The history of Drottningholm begins in the mid-16th century, when King Gustav Vasa established Torvesund Royal Demesne. It comprises several farms which were important for supplying the Court. Gustav Vasa's son King Johan III took over the Roya Demesne and had a Renaissance palace built there for the Queen, Katarina Jagellonica. To honour her he changed the name to Drottningholm in 1581. Count Magnus Gabriel De la Gardie took over Drottningholm in 1651. Sketches show what the garden in front of the Palace may have looked like at the time. Garden crops were grown in the north-east and near the barn...

The architects were influenced by the formal garden architecture in Italy and France and parts of the gardens of Vaux le Vicomte, Chantilly and Versailles are incorporated in the general plan. The structure of the garden was strictly geometric...

Drottningholms slott

Katarina Jagellonica - Hedvig Eleonora

La bibliothèque, beaucoup de livres des Lumières

The Embroidery Parterre Boxwood

The Embroidery Parterre was the first part of the Baroque Garden to be laid out in the 1680s. Together with the Water Parterre it formed the showpiece of the garden. With the borders of flower beds, grass, gravel, crushed brick and crushed black hyperite stone, the hedges form carpets worthy of a salon and create relief effects.

Kina slott Chinese Pavillon

The buildings you glimpse through the trees belong to the Chinese Pavilion, occupying its own corner of Drottningholm. The Pavilion was built in the 1760s, and replaced a Chinese building which Queen Lovisa Ulrika received in 1753. The Chinese Pavilion was placed in the Royal hunting park, secluded from Drottningholm Palace and the ornamental garden...

The first Chinese Pavilion was a surprise gift for Queen Lovisa Ulrika on her 33rd birthday on 24 july 1753. King Adolf Fredrik brought her here, and from the pavilion came a Chinese prince, who was Crown Prince Gustav...

Inside the Pavilion, the Royal family were surrounded by an exotic world of art objects and murals from a Chinese paradise. Here they spent their time reading, drawing, embroidering and conversing. Four pavilions were built on the Palace courtyard...

The table setting in the Confidence

The Confidence was the dining room of the pavilion. The Royal Family could dine here with guests if they wanted to do so in private, en confidence (in French), hence the name of the building. Dining confidentially without servants was possible through an ingenious system of hoisting a ready-laid table up through the floor to the dining room...

Drottningholm Court Theatre

Drottningholm Court Theatre is one of the world's best-preserved late 18th century theatres, with the original stage machinery and the world's largest collection of 18th-century stage sets. The court Theatre stands partly on the foundations of an older theatre, which was built in 1754 but burned to the ground eight years later. The present theatre was built between 1764 and 1766 to designs by the architect Carl Fredrik Adelcrantz...

SABYHOL

CENTRAL STATION

CAROLUS

What do you need today?

Hot Dogs Cold drinks...

Grilled Salmon with beer...

ABBA en tournée, à la station Waterloo
http://www.abbathemuseum.com/

La campagne suèdoise

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