8 historic sites
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.
sweden · Uppsala County
Skokloster Castle
A Baroque castle abandoned mid-construction in 1676 — its unfinished hall untouched for 350 years
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
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
sweden · Stockholm County
Drottningholm Palace
The living palace of the Swedish royal family — Sweden's Versailles on a lake island near Stockholm
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
sweden · Södermanland
Gripsholm Castle
Sweden's most visited royal castle — a Renaissance fortress on Lake Mälaren reached by vintage steamboat
sweden · Småland / Kalmar County
Kalmar Castle
The castle that forged Scandinavia — birthplace of the union that united Denmark, Norway and Sweden
sweden · Stockholm Archipelago, Stockholm County
Vaxholm Fortress
The guardian of Stockholm — a Renaissance sea fortress on its own island in the archipelago