Castles & Palaces
Drottningholm Palace reflected on Lake Mälaren at dusk

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Castles in Sweden

Sweden's royal palaces and medieval castles reflect a thousand years of Scandinavian kingship. Drottningholm Palace — the UNESCO-listed residence of the Swedish royal family — is the finest Baroque ensemble in northern Europe. Along Lake Mälaren, the castles of Skokloster, Gripsholm and Läckö preserve the extraordinary material culture of Sweden's 17th-century Baltic empire.

Drottningholm Palace Baroque facade reflected in Lake Mälaren near Stockholm, Sweden
UNESCO

sweden · Stockholm County

Drottningholm Palace

The living palace of the Swedish royal family — Sweden's Versailles on a lake island near Stockholm

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Stockholm Royal Palace (Stockholms slott) on the island of Gamla Stan — the 18th-century Swedish Baroque palace built after the 1697 Tre Kronor fire, the official residence of King Carl XVI Gustaf

sweden · Stockholm County

Stockholm Royal Palace

One of the largest royal palaces in the world in active official use — 600 rooms of Swedish Baroque built after the medieval Tre Kronor castle burned in 1697, still the King's official residence in Stockholm

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Solliden Royal Palace on the island of Öland — the Italian Renaissance-style summer residence of the Swedish royal family, with terraced gardens above the Baltic Sea

sweden · Öland

Solliden Royal Palace

The Italian villa that a Swedish crown princess built on a Baltic island — Solliden's Mediterranean-style gardens are the summer retreat of the Swedish royal family, open to visitors in the season when the royals are in residence

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Gripsholm Castle's round towers reflected in Lake Mälaren, Mariefred, Sweden

sweden · Södermanland

Gripsholm Castle

Sweden's most visited royal castle — a Renaissance fortress on Lake Mälaren reached by vintage steamboat

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Läckö Castle on the Kållandsö peninsula in Lake Vänern, Sweden — the Baroque palace rebuilt by Magnus Gabriel De la Gardie in the 17th century, confiscated by Charles XI in 1681, and restored from 1908

sweden · Västra Götaland County, Kållandsö peninsula, Lake Vänern

Läckö Castle

Baroque magnificence on a Lake Vänern peninsula — 250 rooms built for Sweden's most extravagant nobleman, stripped by royal decree in 1681, and restored over a century into one of Scandinavia's finest preserved castle ensembles

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Kalmar Castle's round towers rising from the water at the edge of Kalmar Sound, Sweden

sweden · Småland / Kalmar County

Kalmar Castle

The castle that forged Scandinavia — birthplace of the union that united Denmark, Norway and Sweden

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Vaxholm Fortress on its own island in the Stockholm Archipelago in Sweden

sweden · Stockholm Archipelago, Stockholm County

Vaxholm Fortress

The guardian of Stockholm — a Renaissance sea fortress on its own island in the archipelago

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Hallwyl Palace interior courtyard in central Stockholm — the neo-Renaissance private palace of Count and Countess von Hallwyl, preserved intact with 70,000 objects as the Hallwyl Museum

sweden · Stockholm, Sweden

Hallwyl Palace

Stockholm's most compulsively preserved private palace — a countess who catalogued 70,000 objects and donated the entire home, exactly as lived in, to the Swedish state in 1920

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Skokloster Castle's Baroque towers on a peninsula in Lake Mälaren, Sweden

sweden · Uppsala County

Skokloster Castle

A Baroque castle abandoned mid-construction in 1676 — its unfinished hall untouched for 350 years

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