Saturday, July 21, 2018

Stockholm, Sweden

Stockholm, Sweden
Stockholm is Sweden’s center of art and culture. The city is orderly, clean, and beautiful.
We visited the Vasa Museum, built to house the 226-foot-long warship Vasa that sank on its maiden voyage in 1628.
The City Hall is one of Sweden’s most famous buildings for its grand ceremonial halls and unique pieces of art and is the venue of the Nobel Prize banquet held on 10th of December each year. The Nobel Prizes in Physics, Chemistry, Physiology or Medicine and Literature are awarded in Stockholm, Sweden, while the Nobel Peace Prize is awarded in Oslo, Norway.

Buildings along the canal

Streets of Stockholm


Vasa Museum

The 226-foot-long warship Vasa



Vasa was decorated with sculptures intended to glorify the authority, wisdom and martial prowess of the monarch and also to deride, taunt and intimidate the enemy.

A scale model of the ship

The sculptures are painted in what are believed to be the original colors



On the waterfront

The royal palace with over 600 rooms

The Nobel museum


The City Hall

Blue Hall – constructed from handmade bricks. This banqueting room is where the annual Nobel Prize festivities are hosted. It is called the ‘Blue Hall’ as the initial plan was to paint the bricks blue yet the architect changed that design.

At the grand ceremonial hall 


The City Hall also houses offices for 200 people including the Municipal Council



The Municipal Council chamber


The Oval – is an oval shaped vaulted antechamber. The walls of the Oval are decorated in 300 year old tapestries. There are a series of five such tapestries, all originating from France

Blue columns

The Golden Hall can be rented for special festivities

The Golden Hall has some magnificent wall artworks. The Byzantine-inspired wall mosaic has been composed of 18.6 million pieces of glass and gold.

The Byzantine-inspired wall mosaic

The intricate wall mosaic




Streets of Stockholm


The net is to prevent the birds usually flying straight to their death to the glass of tall buildings


Along the waterfront






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