10 Stockholm Highlights – A Luxury Travel Blog

Stockholm is known as Venice of the north, spread over 14 islands and 56 bridges, which is part of a 30,000 islands and a archipelago of Islam.

Long ago, the log, known as stock in Swedish, was used on a holym, an islet, to protect the freshwater of the lake from the raids looking at the Baltic Sea. And this is the story of how Stockholm got its name. From the 19th century, the rich sections of Stockholm created the Grand Haveli, often ignoring the lakes, aspiring to the elegance of the organ of Berlin and Paris.

Today, the development of Stockholm continues. Although Houston Street has Soho in New York, Stockholm now has Sofo, which is south of Fokungton; A hip neighbor of artisans crafts, organic cafes and vintage shops.

1. Hop-on, hop-af bus

With 19 stops, the red bus route, the art of Stockholm, takes the art, culture, food and many of its museums. It is a green, beautiful ride, which passes through some parks and waterways that make stockholm.

The earphone commentary tells about Grata Garbo’s grime and dark childhood in a stockhom tenment before becoming a Hollywood icon. Her father earned very little as a toilet clinner and Greeta was desperate to use her acting talent to avoid a better life.

2. Scansen open-air museum

Before ABBA, before H&M, and even before Ikea, Scansen’s Open-Air Museum was, which presented his Sweden’s approach in 1891. Indifferently, in the miniator, in a country, before it was scared of industrialization. In April, a cast, breech, frock coat and smokes of the characters celebrate rural and urban life that disappeared. There is also a mini zoo, which has nordic animals.

Inside, a strange museum gave history to the history of the snuff, a habit that is still stunning in the 21st century Sweden.

3. Vasa Museum

Was it a curse? Polish sabotage? drunken sailor? Or poor design?

The gossip was prevalent when the new ship Vasa, on the insistence of the king, drowned two gun decks. It was watching on his first visit to watch the stockhom crowd in January 1628.

Then in 1961, Vasa was picked up from its tomb of water, despite corrosion of 6,000 bolts, was restored and eventually displayed at the Vasa Museum, which is at the top by three magnets. A unique maritime time capsule.

Using the documentary evidence, a dramatic short film describes the highlights of inquiries, which is found to find a sacrificial goat for the disaster – but fried to do so.

A bottle of 1628 Vasa Licker, which is made from a bottle between cannon and skeletons for 333 years, is made from a bottle built between skeletons, in 33% proof, a powerful anis-free sour.

4. The Viking Museum

A bearded viking welcomes us to the museum, with a sword, knife, weston, deer horn comb and hanging from her belt. He explains how the Vikings were to be in the form of warriors along with the farmers. To react opportunistic to their explores to the circumstances. If any agreement was strong, they did business, if it was weak, they raided.

Those Vikings ate very close measures to contemporary colored recommendations; Low meat content but complement with high, nuts and seeds on fiber from barley, fruit and oats.

5. Waterways search

As the Stockholm is a sea collage of the canals, ports, lakes and the Baltic Sea, a boat trip takes you to the heart and soul of the city – over time and again you reach for your camera. Hop on, Hop of Bots Glide Grand Merchants House, Royal Palace, Verdant Park and Historical Neighbors.

Arriving by boat is the best way to complete the thrill of riding in the Vasa Museum, the old city’s old city and Grona Lund Tivoli.

6. A break break

Wherever you are, whatever you are doing, stop for a break break is part of the Swedish DNA of the relay. Slow and some sweet for coffee, usually sociality, Swedish cultural institution that the word is both a noun and an action.

Some argue that an old Swedish word for Fika coffee comes out of a lot. Wheat etymology, Swedes drink more coffee per health.

7. Swap sten

Stockholm’s Labirinthian Old Town of Twisting narrow street and medieval times road dates, thinking that most of the townhouses were built in the 17th and 18th centuries. His yellow and war aspects have a fairy tale atmosphere. Nowadays, those houses are largely cafes, craft shops, galleries and restaurants.

As the Royal Palace is close, the guard converter, march across the cobles, is a daily military routine

8. Nobel museum

At the center of the flower stan, the museum pays tribute to the efforts of extraordinary humans. Since 1901, inspirational men and women have awarded the Nobel Prize in the fields of physics, chemistry, medicine and peace nominated by Alfred Nobel.

In Nobel’s will, the inventors of dynamite were disappointed at the destruction, which he unknowingly made, decided that millions of people should be used to establish awards for people. Short films asked the story of July for the Nobel Prize for scientists like Mary Curie and Nils Bohar as well as peacemakers like Nelson Mandela and FW Day Clerk.

9. Contemporary Museum of Arts, Photography and Culture

Located at the 1906 Red Brick East Custom House, Watercide Contemporary Museum is one of the collet destinations of art, photography and culture Stockholm.

Exhibitions often change. The Stark Portraits of Rock Stars, currently Anton Corbozin’s Rock Stars, that is a dark clever nick cave, and runs in October 2025. The work of Hammarkiyld Life, which often challenges the traditional definitions of illustration.

On the upper floor, the cafe and restaurant with a view of the picture window over the upper floor is the huge scandi-dassin that inspires the visitors to put the Togator’s own photographic 15 folio.

10. Stockholm’s park

The 40% of the stockhom’s approach is Parkland. Long ago, it was an acre royal property, for hunting.

Or in the case of Humlegden, land for growing hops for royal beer. In those days when drinking water was not safe and the royal sailors were allowed to drink beer threers a day.

Now there are public places for walking, jogging, picnic, cycling and courses, finding a cafe for a bang brake.

Disclosure: Our journey was supported by Stockholm.

Michael Edwards

Michael Edwards is a travel writer in the UK Oxfordshire. Although Michael cut his first trip published almost four decades ago, he is getting new luxury designations to travel and write.