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BLASIEHOLMEN
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Nybroviken GÅRDEN
GAMLA Strömmen SKEPPSHOLMEN
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The festival area on the quayside
below the Moderna museet is the KASTELL­
HOLMEN
venue for the popular International Locator Map
Jazz & Blues Festival, which takes
Loading crane place for a week in July each year. See Street Finder map 4
built in 1751 – the
oldest of its type 3 Arkitektur och
in Sweden. designcentrum
The Swedish Architecture
and Design Centre highlights
thousands of years of building,
with a collection of models
showing masterpieces
worldwide, including this
model of the Stockholm
City Library by Asplund.
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L Å N G A R A D E N L Moneo, the museum was
opened in 1998 when
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Stockholm was Cultural
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Capital of Europe. It has an
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of modern art, and fine
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views across the water.
S Ő D R A B R O B A N K E N Kastell- Monument commemora ting
the battle at Svensksund in
holmen 1790 (see p46)
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Hotel Skeppsholmen is part of a Suggested route
complex of buildings dating back
to around 1700. They originally
accommodated King Karl XII’s
bodyguard, but today serve as a 0 metres 100
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