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1392: Forces of the Danish Queen Margaret besieged the city. 1392: Privateers named Victual Brothers supplied the besieged city with food. 1419: Stockholm becomes the capital of Sweden. 1471: The Battle of Brunkeberg is won by Sten Sture the elder, and the Danish are ousted. 1483: Printer Johann Snell active.
Stockholm City Hall ( Swedish: Stockholms stadshus, Stadshuset locally) is the seat of Stockholm Municipality in Stockholm, Sweden. It stands on the eastern tip of Kungsholmen island, next to Riddarfjärden 's northern shore and facing the islands of Riddarholmen and Södermalm. It houses offices and conference rooms as well as ceremonial halls.
Culture in Stockholm. Apart from being a large city with an active cultural life, Stockholm, the capital of Sweden, houses many national cultural institutions. There are two UNESCO World Heritage Sites in the Stockholm County area: the Royal Palace Drottningholm (within Ekerö Municipality) and the Skogskyrkogården (The Woodland Cemetery).
Stockholm Archipelago. / 59.38778; 18.73581. The Stockholm Archipelago ( Swedish: Stockholms skärgård) is the largest archipelago in Sweden, and the second-largest archipelago in the Baltic Sea (the largest being the Archipelago Sea across the Baltic in Finland). Part of the archipelago has been designated as a Ramsar site since 1989.
The Stockholm Metro ( Swedish: Stockholms tunnelbana) is a rapid transit system in Stockholm, Sweden. The first line opened in 1950 as the first metro line in the Nordic countries, and today the system has 100 stations in use, [1] of which 47 are underground and 53 above ground. There are three coloured lines, as shown on the tube maps, which ...
The Vasa Museum ( Swedish: Vasamuseet) is a maritime museum in Stockholm, Sweden. Located on the island of Djurgården, the museum displays the only almost fully intact 17th-century ship that has ever been salvaged, the 64-gun warship Vasa that sank on her maiden voyage in 1628. The Vasa Museum opened in 1990 and, according to the official ...
The demography of Sweden is monitored by the Statistiska centralbyrån ( Statistics Sweden ). Sweden 's population was 10,555,448 (1 Nov 2023), making it the 15th-most populous country in Europe after Czech Republic, the 10th-most populous member state of the European Union, and the 87th-most populous country in the world.
