Södermalm — Il Quartiere Creativo di Stoccolma, Fotografiska e il Municipio
Södermalm — la grande isola a sud di Gamla Stan, il quartiere più creativo e culturalmente vitale di Stoccolma — ospita Fotografiska (uno dei più importanti musei di fotografia del mondo), la passeggiata sul cliff di Monteliusvägen e le viste panoramiche sul Municipio.
Sole di Mezzanotte, Midsommar e le Stagioni di Stoccolma
Stockholm's position at 59°N latitude (the same latitude as southern Alaska, slightly north of Moscow) gives the city one of the most dramatic seasonal cycles of any major capital city in the world: in June, the sun barely sets (the sky remains bright 24 hours a day at midsummer, with an effective 'night' of only about 3 hours of dim twilight); in December, the sun rises at approximately 8:45am and sets at 2:48pm, giving only 6 hours of daylight; Swedish culture and psychology are deeply shaped by this dramatic light cycle.
Cucina Svedese a Stoccolma — Polpette, Husmanskost e Nuova Cucina Nordica
Swedish food culture in Stockholm encompasses three distinct traditions: husmanskost (the traditional Swedish home cooking — the meatballs (köttbullar) with lingonberry jam, Janssons frestelse (the anchovy and potato gratin), gravlax, and the Thursday yellow pea soup), the fika culture (the Swedish coffee-and-pastry break that is a national institution), and the New Nordic cuisine (the movement centered on Copenhagen but with important Stockholm outposts including Mathias Dahlgren (2 Michelin stars, at the Grand Hôtel) and Oaxen Krog (2 Michelin stars, on Djurgården)).
Gamla Stan — Il Medievale Centro Storico di Stoccolma e il Palazzo Reale
Stoccolma — la capitale e la città più grande della Svezia, costruita su 14 isole dove il lago Mälaren si incontra con il Mar Baltico — ha come nucleo storico Gamla Stan (la Città Vecchia), una città insulare medievale di vicoli acciottolati, palazzi barocchi e il Palazzo Reale.
Museo Vasa, Museo ABBA e Djurgården — L'Isola dei Musei di Stoccolma
Djurgården — la grande isola-parco a est del centro di Stoccolma, un tempo riserva di caccia reale — concentra i migliori musei della Scandinavia: il Museo Vasa, il Museo ABBA, Skansen e il Museo Nordico.
Strandvägen, Östermalm e il Lungomare di Stoccolma
Strandvägen — il viale di 700 metri lungo il lungomare di Nybroviken, il più prestigioso indirizzo residenziale di Stoccolma — e Östermalm (il distretto benestante con il Saluhall e il Museo delle Antichità Nazionali) definiscono l'elegante faccia orientale del centro di Stoccolma.
Arcipelago di Stoccolma — 30.000 Isole in Barca
Stockholm Archipelago (Stockholms skärgård — the approximately 30,000 islands, islets, and skerries (skär) extending 80 km east from Stockholm into the Baltic Sea, one of the largest and most beautiful archipelagos in the world): the Stockholm Archipelago is accessible by scheduled ferry (Waxholmsbolaget and Cinderellabåtarna ferry services from Strömkajen in central Stockholm) and is the defining Swedish summer experience — the combination of the wooden summer cottages (stugor), wild swimming (friluftsbad) from the flat granite rocks, foraging for wild strawberries (smultron) and blueberries (blåbär), crayfish parties (kräftskiva), and the extraordinary Baltic light of Swedish summer evenings.
Palazzo Drottningholm — Patrimonio Mondiale UNESCO e Residenza Reale Estiva
Drottningholm Palace (Drottningholms slott — on the island of Lovön in Lake Mälaren, 11 km west of central Stockholm, accessible by boat from Stadshuskajen (50 minutes) or by subway and bus — the UNESCO World Heritage Site (inscribed 1991) and the primary residence of the Swedish Royal Family (King Carl XVI Gustaf and Queen Silvia have lived here year-round since 1981)): Drottningholm is sometimes called 'the Versailles of Sweden' — not because it rivals Versailles in scale, but because it was directly inspired by the French royal palace and represents the most complete Baroque palace complex in Scandinavia.
Moderna Museet — La Più Grande Collezione d'Arte Moderna della Svezia
Moderna museet (the Museum of Modern Art — on the island of Skeppsholmen between Gamla Stan and Djurgården, in the building designed by Rafael Moneo (1998) — the most important collection of modern and contemporary art in Scandinavia): the Moderna museet has one of the finest collections of 20th-century art in the world, with particular strengths in Surrealism (including Salvador Dalí's 'The Enigma of William Tell' (1933) and a major collection of works by Marcel Duchamp, Max Ernst, and René Magritte), post-war American painting (including Andy Warhol's 'Marilyn Monroe' series and key works by Robert Rauschenberg), and Swedish and Nordic modern art.