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6  HOW T O USE THIS GUIDE

HOW TO USE THIS GUIDE

This guide helps you to get the most photographs and illustrations.
from your visit to Sweden. It provides Suggestions on restaurants, hotels,
both expert recommendations and shopping and entertainment are in
detailed practical information. Introducing Travellers’ Needs. The Survival Guide
Sweden maps the country and sets it in has tips on everything from making
its historical and cultural context. The ten a local telephone call to using local
regional chapters, including Stockholm, transport ation, as well as information
describe important sights using maps, on money, etiquette and safety.

Stockholm
The centre of the capital and which opens with a list of the information for each sight
its surrounding area has been sights to be covered. All sights follows the map’s numerical
divided into four sightseeing are numbered and plotted on order, making sights easy to
areas. Each has its own chapter, an area map. The detailed locate within the chapter.
All pages relating to Stockholm have
ST OCKHOLM AREA B Y AREA  69
CITY red thumb tabs.
The area known as City today was where, A hub for public transport and banking,
in the mid-18th century, the first stone- City is the place for the best department
built houses and palaces outside Gamla stores and shopping malls, exclusive
Stan started to appear for the burghers boutiques and nightspots. The centre
and nobility. After World War II, the run- also has some beautiful parks and Sights at a Glance lists the chapter’s
down buildings around Hötorget were pleasant squares which serve as popular
demolished to form what is now Sergels meeting places. The unique landscape
Torg; many homes were replaced by surrounding Stockholm permeates sights by category: Churches, Palaces
rather dreary office blocks. even City, offering sudden unexpected
In the 21st century, though, the area has glimpses of water complete with bustling
livened up and become the true heart boat life and a string of anglers along and Museums, Historic Buildings,
and commercial centre of Stockholm. the embankments.
Sights at a Glance Streets and Squares.
Museums Squares Theatres and Concert
5 Dansmuseet 2 Kungsträdgården Halls
6 Medelhavsmuseet Public Buildings 4 Kungliga Operan
q Strindbergsmuseet 1 Nordiska Kompaniet (NK) 9 Kulturhuset and
Blå Tornet Stadsteatern
r Armémuseum 7 Arvfurstens Palats 0 Konserthuset A locator map shows where you
e Kungliga Biblioteket
t Musikmuseet y Hovstallet u Kungliga Dramatiska
i Hallwylska Palatset Teatern See also Street Finder
Churches maps 1, 2 & 3 are in relation to other areas of the
3 Jacobs Kyrka
8 Klara Kyrka
w Adolf Fredriks Kyrka RÅDMANSGATAN TULEG. RUNEB ERGSG. city centre.
Rådmans- ERIKSBERGS-
gatan TEGNÉRGATAN ERIKSBERGSG.
RÅDMANSGATAN TEGNÉRGATAN SVEA VÄGEN DÖBELNSGATAN PLAN BIRGER JARLSGATAN ENGELBREKTSGATAN HUMLEGÅRDEN STUREGATAN
TEGNÉR-
LUNDEN REGERINGSGATAN Area Map For easy reference, the
ADOLF FREDRIKS KYRKOGATA ENGELBREKTS- PLAN
DROTTNINGGATAN
UPPLANDSGATAN
TEGNÉRGATAN TORSGATAN DALAGATAN WALLINGATAN BARNHUSGATAN OLOF PALMES GATA Hötorget Hötorget KUNGSGATAN HUMLEGÅRDSGATAN ÖSTER- TORG 1sights are numbered and located on
VÄSTMANNAGATAN
NORRA NORRMALM Hötorget NORRLANDSGATAN TUREGATAN GREV NYBROGATAN MALMS- STORGATAN
Barnhus- BANTORGET HÖ- SIBYLLEGATAN
bron KLARASTRANDSLEDEN SVEA VÄGEN BIBLIOTEKSGATAN torg a map. Sights in the city centre are
KUNGSGATAN TORGET SERGELGATAN MÄSTER SAMUELSGATAN Östermalms- RIDDARGATAN
SMÅLANDSG.
ÖSTRA
VASAGATAN
T-Centralen MÄSTER SAMUELSGATAN MALMSKILLNADSGATAN SMÅLANDSG. MALMS- NORR- NYBRO- PLAN ARTILLERIGATAN
Barnhusviken
Kungs- HAMNGATAN TORG VÄPNARGATAN
bron JÄRNVÄGSG. T-Centralen STRANDVÄGEN also shown on the Stockholm Street
City-
terminalen KLARABERGSGATAN DROTTNING- BRUNKE- BERGS- REGERINGSGATAN KUNGSTRÄDGÅRDSGATAN viken Nybro-
TERMINALSLINGAN
TORG
KLARABERGSVIADUKTEN T-Centralen VATTUGATAN GATAN trädgården Kungs- KARL Finder on pages 118–23.
BLEKHOLMSTERRASSEN
Stockholm C HERKULESGATAN GUSTAV ADOLFS XII:S TORG
FREDSGATAN TORG Norr- bro Ström- bron
Klara Sjö
Stadshus- TEGEL-
bron BACKEN
Riks- Norrström
Vasa- bron bron 80  ST OCKHOLM AREA B Y AREA BLASIEHOLMEN & SKEPPSHOLMEN  81
Central- bron
0 metres 500
0 yards 500 Street-by-Street: Skeppsholmen ÖSTERMALM
For keys to symbols see back flap
Statue of Gustav II Adolf in the middle of Gustav Adolfs Torg Skeppsholmen has long since lost its importance as a naval base Teater Galeasen is BLASIEHOLMEN DJUR­
theatre for new Swedish
and has been transformed into a centre for culture. Many of the Stockholm’s avant-garde Nybroviken GÅRDEN
naval buildings have been restored and traditional wooden and international drama. Strömmen
boats are moored here, but pride of place now goes to the GAMLA STAN SKEPPSHOLMEN
exciting Moderna museet. The island is ideal for a full-day visit, The festival area on the quayside KASTELL­
with its location between the waters of Strömmen and below the Moderna museet is the HOLMEN
venue for the popular International
Nybroviken acting as a breathing space in the centre of Jazz & Blues Festival, which takes Locator Map
Stockholm. The attractive buildings, the richly wooded English- Loading crane place for a week in July each year. See Street Finder map 4
style park and the view towards Skeppsbron and Strandvägen oldest of its type
built in 1751 – the
also make Skeppsholmen a pleasant place for those who in Sweden.
A suggested route for a would just prefer to have a quiet stroll. 3 Arkitekturmuseet
The Museum of Architecture
walk is shown in red. Blasieholmen Skepps holmsbron highlights thousands of years
(bridge)
of building, with a collection of
models showing masterpieces
worldwide, including this
model of the Stockholm
City Library by Asplund.
Ő S T R A B R O B A N K E N
Skeppsholmen Church
Stars indicate the sights that no 1 .Östasiatiska museet (1824–42) in well-
preserved Empire style.
This yellow-enamel dish with
visitor should miss. a blue dragon is part of a Salute battery S V E N S K S U N D V A G E N
collection of arts and crafts
(see p82)
from China, Japan, Korea and
India covering the period from
the Stone Age to the 1800s. Admiralty House
SVENSKSUNDSV
Paradise (1963), a
sculpture group by 2 . Moderna
Jean Tinguely and Niki V A S T R A B R O B A N K E N museet
de Saint Phalle for Designed by Rafael
Montreal’s World A M I R A L S V A G E N Moneo, the museum was
Exposition, has stood L Å N G A R A D E N opened in 1998 when
outside the site of the
72  ST OCKHOLM AREA B Y AREA CIT Y  73 Stockholm was Cultural
Moderna museet Capital of Europe. It has an
since 1972. Youth Hostel exciting collection
1 Nordiska is bordered by treelined wanted to provide two new weapons, tools and some of modern art, and fine
views across the water.
Kompaniet (NK) promenades, with a modern churches in Norra Malmen, as remarkable mummies. Greek
Hamngatan 18–20. Map 2 D4. fountain in the middle. At the the area was then called, and and Islamic culture, Roman and Monument commemora ting
work to build the churches of
Etruscan art are all represented
Strömgatan end there is a
Tel 08-762 80 00.  T-centralen. square named after Karl XII with St Jacob and St Klara (see p74) and complemented by Swedish Society of the battle at Svensksund in
@ 47, 69, 76. Open 10am–8pm Mon– J P Molin’s statue of the warrior started in 1580. St Jacob’s was temporary exhibitions. Crafts & Design S Ő D R A B R O B A N K E N Kastell-
Fri, 10am–6pm Sat, noon–5pm Sun. king, unveiled in 1868, at its consecrated first, in 1643. It has Medelhavsmuseet is housed holmen 1790 (see p46)
Designed by Ferdinand Boberg, centre. In Kungsträd gården been restored several times in a former bank, built in the 5 Kungliga Konsthögskolan
the granite palace on itself there is a statue of Karl XIII since then, in some cases rather 17th century for Gustav Horn, The first part of the Royal College
Hamngatan houses the (1809–18) by Erik Göthe. During clumsily. However, several a general in the Thirty Years of Fine Arts was completed in the Key
department store Nordiska the summer, the park is the valuable items have been War. The stairwell, dating from 1770s, but it acquired its Hotel Skeppsholmen is part of a Suggested route
Kompaniet (NK). Opened in venue for food festivals, preserved, including a 4 af Chapman present appearance in complex of buildings dating back
1905, and the peristyles and
colonnade around the upper
1915, NK was – and still is – concerts, dancing and street baptismal font from 1634 and Built in 1888, the full-rigged former freighter and school the mid-1990s. This to around 1700. They originally
aimed at an exclusive clientele. theatre. In winter, the skating some church silver, as well as ship has served as a popular youth hostel since 1949. cast-iron boar accommodated King Karl XII’s 0 metres 100
part of the hall are worth a
visit in themselves.
It made its name as a rink attracts children porches by the stonemasons Skeppsholmen Church (left) and the Admiralty House stands at the bodyguard, but today serve as a
showcase for and grown-ups Henrik Blom and Hans Hebel. (1647–50, rebuilt 1844–6) are in the background. entrance. hotel and restaurant. 0 yards 100
Swedish arts and alike. Also to be seen The organ’s façade was The splendid golden foyer at Kungliga Operan 7 Arvfurstens
crafts, writing design is Molin’s fountain, made created by the architect For hotels and restaurants in this area see pp284–289 and pp294–301
history when the from gypsum in 1866 Carl Hårleman and the large which was given to the State in established in Paris in 1953 by Palats
textiles department, and cast in bronze. painting on the west wall of the 1898 by a consortium founded the Swedish aristocrat Rolf de Gustav Adolfs Torg 1. Map 3 B1.
Tetilkammaren, opened It is the city’s oldest southern nave is by Fredrik by the financier K A Wallenberg. Maré (1888–1964). He was a  Kungsträdgården. @ 43, 62.
in 1937. The manager park, starting as the royal Westin, Sweden’s most The colouring of the building noted art collector and founder Closed to the public. Street-by-Street Map This
was the textile artist Molin’s kitchen garden in the distinguished historical painter in late-Renaissance style is in of the renowned avant-garde
Astrid Sampe who fountain 15th century. During of the early 19th century. keeping with the Royal Palace company Les Ballets Suédois. The Opposite the Royal Opera
commissioned leading Erik XIV’s reign in the 16th and Parliament building, and collection features all aspects House, on the other side of
contemporary artists and century, it was transformed into some details of the of dance – costumes and Gustav Adolfs Torg, stands 2gives a bird’s eye view of the
designers to supply work. Olle a formal Renaissance garden. architecture are masks, scenery sketches, Arvfurstens Palats (Prince’s
Baertling, Arne Jacobsen, Alvar Queen Kristina built a stone common to all art and posters, books Palace), built for Gustav III’s sister
Aalto and Viola Gråsten all summer house here in the 17th three. The beautiful and documents – Sofia Albertina and completed
contributed patterns. Sampe century, which stands at staircase with and includes an in 1794. She commissioned the key areas in each chapter.
also introduced new fabric Västra Trädgårdsgatan 2, ceiling paintings archive on popular architect Erik Palmstedt to carry
printing techniques. by the cobblestoned by Axel Jungstedt dance. Apart from out the work. He was a pupil of
Today at NK you can find Lantmäteribacken. was inspired by the the exhibition hall, Carl Fredrik Adelcrantz, designer
almost everything from Paris Opera. The there is also a data of the original opera house.
perfume, clothing and sporting same artist’s portrait Gold ceiling in bank – the Rolf de The palace and its decor are
equipment to glass, silver and 3 Jacobs Kyrka of Oscar II hangs Kungliga Operan Maré Study Centre – shining examples of the
porcelain, but above all, the Jakobs Torg 5. Map 3 B1. Tel 08-723 in the 28 m (92 ft) which contains Gustavian style, thanks to the
store is, as its founder Josef 30 38.  Kungsträdgården. @ 55. long golden foyer, where video/DVD facilities, a library contributions of artists and
Sachs once described it, a Open noon–4pm Tue, 1–4pm Wed, Carl Larsson was responsible and archives. The museum shop craftsmen such as Louis
commercial and cultural theatre. 11am–6pm Thu, 1–6pm Fri, 2–5pm Altar in Jacobs Kyrka, dating in part from for the decorative paintings. stocks Sweden’s largest Masreliez and Georg Haupt
Sat. @ In Eng 6pm Sun. 7 the 17th century The wings at either side of the collection of dance DVDs and their pupils Gustaf Adolf
Ditzinger, J T Sergel and Gottlieb
stage have been retained, as
for sale.
2 Kungsträdgården In medieval times there 4 Kungliga Operan has the width of the proscenium Iwersson. In 1906 the building Detailed information The sights in
was a small chapel where arch (11.4 m/37 ft). Also saved was taken over by the Swedish
Map 3 B1.  Kungsträdgården. Kungsträdgården now lies. Gustav Adolfs Torg. Map 3 B1. was J T Sergel’s group of angels 6 Medelhavs- Foreign Office.
@ 47, 69. Tel 08-791 44 00.  Kungsträd-
Dedicated to St Jacob, the above the stage. An angel in Nearby is the elegant
The “King’s Garden” is a popular patron saint of wayfarers, the gården. @ 2, 43, 55, 62, 65. Ticket Vicke Andrén’s ceiling painting museet Sagerska Palatset (1894) in 3Stockholm are described individually.
Office: Open 9am–6pm Mon–Fri,
meeting place for Stockholmers chapel and another modest- 10am–2pm Sat (open Sun for is holding a sketch of the Fredsgatan 2. Map 3 B1. Tel 08-519 French Renaissance style, which
where there is something for sized church were pulled down performances). 8 In Eng 1pm Sat. Opera House. 553 80.  Kungsträd gården. @ 3, is used by the prime minister as
43, 52, 62, 65. Open noon–8pm Tue–
everyone going on all year by King Gustav Vasa in the 16th - 0 = 7 ∑ operan.se Fri, noon–5pm Sat & Sun. & 8 - an official residence. Addresses, telephone numbers,
round. This open urban space century. His son, Johan III, = 7 ∑ medelhavsmuseet.se
Opera has been staged in 5 Dansmuseet
Sweden since 18 January Drottninggatan 17. Map 3 A1. Gods and people from pre-
1773, when a performance Tel 08-441 76 50.  Kungsträd- historic cultures around the opening hours and information on
took place at Bollhuset at gården. @ 52. Open 11am–4pm Mediterranean rub shoulders
Slottsbacken. Kungliga Operan Tue–Fri (Mon–Fri Jun–Aug), noon– in Medelhavsmuseet (the
(The Royal Opera House) on 4pm Sat & Sun. & 8 - = 7 Museum of Mediterranean
Gustav Adolfs Torg was ∑ dansmuseet.se and Near East Antiquities). Its admission charges and wheelchair
inaugurated on 30 September many treasures include a large
1782, but by the late 19th Located in the heart of group of terracotta figures
century it had become a fire Stockholm, the Dance Museum discovered by archaeologists
hazard. The architect Axel is housed in a former bank on Cyprus in the 1930s. There is access are also provided for each entry.
Anderberg was commissioned building on Drottninggatan. an extensive display covering Arvfurstens Palats (1794), now the Swedish
View of Kungsträdgården, towards Hamngatan to design a new opera house The museum was originally ancient Egypt, with bronze Foreign Office
For hotels and restaurants in this area see pp284–289 and pp294–301
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