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3 Wik p Julita Gård
This 15th-century
castle is Svealand’s Södermanland. Tel 0150-48 75 00.
best-preserved late- £ @ Train to Katrineholm, then
medieval fortress. With bus 405. Open May–Sep daily.
its solid walls and moat,
Wik was considered This extensive Södermanland
impregnable. It was estate on Lake Öljaren is said to
remodelled in 1656–60. be the world’s largest open-air
Today, Wik is a hotel museum. It was created in the
and conference centre. first half of the 20th century by
2 Skokloster the romantic Lieutenant Arthur
Field Marshal Carl Gustaf Wrangel’s Bäckström and in 1941 was
17th-century showpiece contains donated to Stockholm’s Nordiska
treasures from his campaigns, as museet. Julita is a working estate
+ Uppsala
well as exceptional collections of farm with parks and gardens,
art, furniture, textiles, weapons and an 18th-century manor
and books (see p133). house built on the site of a
medieval Cistercian monastery.
The estate has a collection
Norrtälje of buildings reflecting rural life
1 Steninge in Södermanland. Threatened
Wik Built in the 1690s, the national species of cow, pig,
Skokloster palace was designed sheep, hen and duck are cared
by Nicodemus Tessin
Arlanda for at the Swedish agricultural
the Younger in the museum. There is also a dairy
style of an Italian
Sigtuna • villa (see p136). museum. Children are
• Märsta welcome to pop into the
Steninge house of the much-loved
0 Drottningholm children’s literary character,
This royal palace, built Pettson, and his cat Findus.
Bro • in the 17th century, was
one of the most lavish
Rosersberg + undertakings in Sweden.
With its theatre, gardens
and Chinese Pavilion,
Drottningholm is a
Ä L A R E N Görväln + UNESCO World Heritage
Site (see pp112–15).
M Svartsjö + Julita Gård’s buildings representing rural
life in Södermanland
+
• Stockholm a Arboga
Drottning-
Skytteholm + holm Västmanland. * 14,000. ~ £ @
g n _ Medieval Festival (Aug).
Gripsholm Red-painted iron warehouses,
Sturehof
Ladbron quay and the railway
+ Taxinge-Näsby line recall Arboga’s great
• Salem age as the chief shipping port
for iron from Bergslagen.
• Södertälje Fahlströmska Gården is a typical
16th-century warehouse with a
huge loft.
Norrköping
Arboga was an important
town in medieval times and the
site of Sweden’s first parliament
9 Sturehof
This stylish 18th-century country in 1435. Churches from the
house in Botkyrka was designed by period include the hospital
C F Adelcrantz for Gustav III’s finance chapel on Stortorget, which has
minister, Johan Liljekrantz, who been preserved as a town hall.
owned the renowned Marieberg The 14th-century Heliga
porcelain factory. The building Trefaldighets Kyrka on Järn-
houses a collection of the factory’s torget has a splendid Baroque
famously stunning tiled stoves. pulpit by Burchardt Precht.

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