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1 | ![]() | Stockholm Palace ![]() FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 31 Lat/Lng : 59.3269 / 18.0717 | Stockholm Palace or The Royal Palace (or) is the official residence and major royal palace of the Swedish monarch (the actual residence of King Carl XVI Gustaf and Queen Silvia is at Drottningholm Palace). Stockholm Palace is located on Stadsholmen, in Gamla stan in the capital, Stockholm (...) |
2 | ![]() | Drottningholm Palace ![]() FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 16 Lat/Lng : 59.3217 / 17.8861 | The Drottningholm Palace is the private residence of the Swedish royal family. It is located in Drottningholm. Built on the island Lovön (in Ekerö Municipality of Stockholm County), it is one of Sweden's Royal Palaces. It was originally built in the late 16th century (...) |
3 | ![]() | Öland ![]() FeatureType : isle Elevation : 28 Lat/Lng : 56.7979 / 16.6663 | ÖlandSometimes written Øland in other Scandinavian languages, and Oland internationally. is the second largest Swedish island and the smallest of the traditional provinces of Sweden. Öland has an area of 1,342 km² and is located in the Baltic Sea just off the coast of Småland (...) |
4 | ![]() | Luleå ![]() FeatureType : city Lat/Lng : 65.5844 / 22.1539 | Luleå (Lule Sami Luleju) is a city on the coast of northern Sweden, and the capital of Norrbotten County, the northernmost county in Sweden. Luleå has about 47,000 inhabitants and is the seat of Luleå Municipality (with a total population of 75,921) (...) |
5 | ![]() | Laholm ![]() FeatureType : city Elevation : 22 Lat/Lng : 56.5167 / 13.0333 | Laholm is a locality and the seat of Laholm Municipality, Halland County, Sweden, with 6,150 inhabitants in 2010. Laholm is, despite its small population, for historical reasons often still referred to as a city (...) |
6 | ![]() | Sollefteå ![]() FeatureType : city Lat/Lng : 63.1667 / 17.2667 | Sollefteå is a locality and the seat of Sollefteå Municipality in Västernorrland County, Sweden with 8,562 inhabitants in 2010. The earliest written account on Sollefteå is found in a script dating back to 1270 (...) |
7 | ![]() | Skansen ![]() FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 44 Lat/Lng : 59.3261 / 18.1036 | Skansen (the Sconce) is the first open-air museum and zoo in Sweden and is located on the island Djurgården in Stockholm, Sweden. It was founded in 1891 by Artur Hazelius (1833–1901) to show the way of life in the different parts of Sweden before the industrial era (...) |
8 | ![]() | Storkyrkan ![]() FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 29 Lat/Lng : 59.3258 / 18.0706 | Sankt Nikolai kyrka (Church of St. Nicholas), most commonly known as Storkyrkan (The Great Church) and Stockholms domkyrka (Stockholm Cathedral), is the oldest church in Gamla Stan, the old town in central Stockholm, Sweden. It is an important example of Swedish Brick Gothic (...) |
9 | Lund University ![]() FeatureType : edu Elevation : 51 Lat/Lng : 55.7058 / 13.1933 | Lund University is one of northern Europe's oldest and most prestigious universities,, The Solander Program Website consistently ranking among the world's top 100 universities. Further, it ranks among the best universities in Northern Europe and in international rankings (...) | |
10 | ![]() | Alby, Öland ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 13 Lat/Lng : 56.4828 / 16.5753 | Alby is a village on the Baltic Sea in the Hulterstad district at the western fringe of the Stora Alvaret. Archaeological evidence indicates this settlement to have been one of the oldest on the island of Öland, with excavations, dating to the paleolithic era, showing the presence of (...) |
11 | Uppsala University ![]() FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 36 Lat/Lng : 59.8576 / 17.6296 | Uppsala University is a research university in Uppsala, Sweden, and is the oldest university in Sweden and all of the Nordic countries, founded in 1477.Ridder-Symoens, Hilde de. A History of the University in Europe. Cambridge University Press, 2003. Page 84 (...) | |
12 | Karolinska Institutet ![]() FeatureType : edu Elevation : 34 Lat/Lng : 59.3489 / 18.0267 | Karolinska Institutet (KI, unofficially known as the Karolinska InstituteKarolinska Institutets Varumärkesplattform (Swedish) Revised Nov 2014, Page 20 https://internwebben.ki.se/sites/default/files/regler_vmplattform_nov2014_4_0 (...) | |
13 | Stureplan ![]() FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 25 Lat/Lng : 59.3361 / 18.0728 | Stureplan is a high-end public square in central Stockholm, between Norrmalm and Östermalm. The square connects the major streets Kungsgatan, Birger Jarlsgatan and Sturegatan. The buildings around the square house offices of banks and other financial institutions, as well as several corporate (...) | |
14 | Stortorget ![]() FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 29 Lat/Lng : 59.325 / 18.0706 | Stortorget is a small public square in Gamla Stan, the old town in central Stockholm, Sweden. It is the oldest square in Stockholm, the historical centre on which the medieval urban conglomeration gradually came into being (...) | |
15 | Royal Swedish Academy of Letters, History and Antiquities ![]() FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 29 Lat/Lng : 59.3417 / 18.0725 | The Royal Swedish Academy of Letters, History and Antiquities also called simply the Royal Academy of Letters or Vitterhetsakademi abbreviated KVHAA (or) is the Swedish royal academy for the Humanities. Its many publications include the archaeological and art historical journal Fornvännen, published (...) | |
16 | Södertörn University ![]() FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 52 Lat/Lng : 59.2197 / 17.9431 | Södertörn Universityhttp://www.uhr.se/sv/Information-in-English/Qualifications-recognition/ENIC-NARIC-Sweden/List-of-HEIs-in-Sweden/ (abbreviated as SH) is a public university (högskola) located in Flemingsberg, which is located in Huddinge Municipality, and the larger area called Södertörn, in (...) | |
17 | Uppsala University Hospital ![]() FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 29 Lat/Lng : 59.8472 / 17.6403 | Uppsala University Hospital (, often referred to colloquially as "Akademiska" or "Ackis") in Uppsala, Sweden is a teaching hospital for the Uppsala University Faculty of Medicine and the Nursing School. Uppsala University Hospital is owned and operated by the Uppsala County Council in cooperation (...) | |
18 | Storvreta ![]() FeatureType : city Elevation : 24 Lat/Lng : 59.9667 / 17.7 | Storvreta is a locality situated in Uppsala Municipality, Uppsala County, Sweden with 6,347 inhabitants in 2010. (...) | |
19 | Bjärka-Säby Castle ![]() FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 98 Lat/Lng : 58.2706 / 15.7388 | Bjärka-Säby Castle (Nya slottet Bjärka-Säby) is a baroque style château located south of Linköping, in Östergötland County, Sweden. In Bjärka-Säby there are actually two castles simply called the old and the new castle of Bjärka-Säby. The old castle dates from 1632 (...) | |
20 | Vadstena Abbey ![]() FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 105 Lat/Lng : 58.4506 / 14.8914 | The Abbey of Our Lady and of St. Bridget , more commonly referred to as Vadstena Abbey, situated on Lake Vättern, in the Diocese of Linköping, Sweden, was the motherhouse of the Bridgettine Order. The abbey started on one of the farms donated to it by the king, but the town of Vadstena grew up (...) | |
21 | Herrevad Abbey ![]() FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 43 Lat/Lng : 56.0881 / 13.2322 | Herrevad Abbey was a Cistercian monastery near Ljungbyhed in Klippan Municipality, Scania, in the south of present-day Sweden, but formerly in Denmark until 1658. It is now a country house known as Herrevad Castle . (...) | |
22 | Biblioteksgatan ![]() FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 21 Lat/Lng : 59.3338 / 18.073 | Biblioteksgatan (Swedish for "Library Street") is a street in Östermalm in central Stockholm. The street starts out as a pedestrian street at Norrmalmstorg until it passes Stureplan, whereafter it continues towards Humlegården and the Royal Library (...) | |
23 | Edsberg, Sollentuna ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 34 Lat/Lng : 59.4461 / 17.9661 | Edsberg is an urban district in Sollentuna Municipality, Stockholm County, Sweden. It is located at the bottom of the Edsviken Bay, which forms a long inlet all the way from the Baltic Sea. It forms part of Stockholm (...) | |
24 | Peter Celsing ![]() FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 31 Lat/Lng : 59.3317 / 18.0658 | Peter Celsing (January 29, 1920 – March 16, 1974) was a Swedish modernist architect. Born in Stockholm, Celsing studied at the architectural school of the Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm, and at the Royal Swedish Academy of Arts (...) | |
25 | Stockholm City Theatre ![]() FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 28 Lat/Lng : 59.3328 / 18.0653 | Stockholm City Theatre is Sweden's most popular theatre stage. It was created in 1956 but the first performance was delayed until 1960. It had not yet been decided at that point where in the city the theatre would lie so the Folkets hus building at Norra Bantorget, with a temporary stage, became the (...) | |
26 | Nisse Strinning ![]() FeatureType : landmark Lat/Lng : 62.6913 / 17.9815 | Nils "Nisse" Strinning (8 December 1917 – 10 May 2006) was a Swedish architect and designer. Strinning was born in Kramfors, and came from a Swedish family with origins in the 18th Century in Ångermanland. The name was taken at the beginning of the 20th Century by the family farm "Strinningen" north (...) | |
27 | Halltorp ![]() FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 24 Lat/Lng : 56.7997 / 16.5831 | Halltorp is one of the earliest manor houses on the island of Öland, Sweden, dating from the 11th century AD. In early documents it is known as Hauldtorp, and it is cited as one of the early Viking settlements of Öland (...) | |
28 | Jönköping University Foundation ![]() FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 104 Lat/Lng : 57.7786 / 14.1612 | Jönköping University Foundation (JU) is a Swedish university located in the city Jönköping in Småland, Sweden. Jönköping University is a member of the European University Association (EUA)http://www.eua.be/eua-membership-and-services/Home/members-directory (...) | |
29 | Red Cross University College of Nursing ![]() FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 42 Lat/Lng : 59.3494 / 18.0706 | Röda Korsets Högskola (or Red Cross University College) is a Swedish university college (högskola) operated by The Red Cross Home Foundation. It is not to be confused with The Red Cross of Sweden. In addition to a degree in nursing, the institution also offers university courses related to the (...) | |