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Ulriksdals Slott with its magnificent 18th-century Baroque exterior, seen from the palace park
7 Ulriksdals Slott exterior. After being a popular of the palace. A stream is
place for festivities in the time crossed by a footbridge, which
7 km (4 miles) N of Stockholm.
Tel 08-402 62 80. @ 503. g Royal of Gustav III (1746–92), it began is supported by Per Lundgren’s
Haga (summer). Palace, Orangery & to lose its glamour and at one Moors Dragging the Nets. More
Coronation carriage: Open mid-Jun– time was used as a home for art can be seen in the orangery,
mid-Aug: noon–4pm daily; May–mid- war invalids. designed by Tessin the Elder in
Jun & mid-Aug–Oct: noon–4pm Sat & Interest in the palace was the 1660s and rebuilt in 1705. It
Sun. Also available for pre-booked revived under Karl XV (1826–72), now houses a sculpture museum.
groups year-round. ^ & 7 = 0 and furnishings and handicrafts The palace chapel, a popular
- ∑ kungahuset.se/royalpalaces many hundreds of years old are place for weddings, was
on show in his rooms. The living designed by F W Scholander
Ulriksdals Slott is situated room of Gustav VI Adolf (1882– and built in 1865 in Dutch
between the two main roads 1973) in the rebuilt Knights’ Hall, Neo-Renaissance style. It
in the northern outskirts of contains fur nishings by the has some notable medieval
Stockholm – the E4 and great architect and designer stained-glass windows.
Norrtäljevägen. The palace Carl Malmsten. The suite was a It was from Ulriksdal that
sits on a headland in the bay gift from the Swedish people Queen Kristina’s Coronation
of Edsviken. Its attractive in 1923 to the then Crown procession departed in 1650.
buildings and lush and leafy Prince when he married Louise Legend has it that by the time
surroundings are well worth Mountbatten. A staircase was the queen reached the city, some
a visit. At the entrance to the built at the same time to of her retinue had still not left
grounds is one of Stockholm’s designs, that Tessin the Elder Ulriksdal. In one of the stables
best-known restaurants, had suggested 250 years earlier. there is a replica of Kristina’s
Ulriksdals Wärdshus. The park was laid out in carriage. A riding school, built
The original palace was built the mid-17th century. It has in 1671, was converted into a
in the 1640s and design ed by 300-year-old lime trees, as theatre by Carl Hårleman and
Hans Jakob Kristler in German/ well as one of Europe’s most C F Adelcrantz in the 1750s.
Dutch Renaissance style. The northerly beechwoods. Carl Performances are staged in the
owner, Marshal of the Realm Milles’s two sculptures of wild theatre, named Confidencen,
Jakob de la Gardie, named the boars stand by the pool in front every summer.
palace Jakobsdal. It was bought
in 1669 by the Dowager Queen
Hedvig Eleonora. When she had
a grandson, Ulrik, 15 years later
she donated the palace to
him as a christening gift, and
it was renamed Ulriksdal.
Around this time the architect
Tessin the Elder (see p38) suggest-
ed some rebuilding work, but
only a few of his proposals saw
the light of day. However, the
stucco work by Carlo Carove in
the southern wing can still be
seen. In the 18th century the
palace acquired its Baroque Sculpture on display in the 17th-century orangery at Ulriksdals Slott

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