Jazz band playing at Fusching.

Around Stockholm

With royal palaces, vintage villages and Viking traces, the greater Stockholm county is certainly worth a venture or three. Conveniently, SL travel passes allow unlimited travel on all buses and local trains in the area. Free timetables are available from the SL office in Centralstationen, most tunnelbana stations and the SL website.

Attractions

Must-see attractions

  • Drottningholm Palace and garden.

    Drottningholm Slott

    Around Stockholm

    Home to the royal family for part of the year, Drottningholm's Renaissance-inspired main palace was designed by architectural great Nicodemus Tessin the…

  • Viking long ships in the harbor at the Viking settlement of Birka in Lake Malaren.

    Birka

    Around Stockholm

    The historic Viking trading centre of Birka, on Björkö in Lake Mälaren, makes a fantastic day trip. A Unesco World Heritage site, it was founded around AD…

  • Public shelter near frozen lake Årsjön in Tyresta national park on a winter morning.

    Tyresta National Park

    Around Stockholm

    Some of the best hiking and wilderness scenery can be found in the 4900-hectare Tyresta National Park, only 20km southeast of Stockholm. Established in…

  • Gripsholm Castle in Mariefred, Sweden.

    Gripsholm Slott

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    About 70km from Stockholm, Gripsholm Slott – with its round towers, spires, drawbridge and creaky wooden halls – was built in the 1370s and had passed…

  • Stage of the theatre at Drottningholm Palace (Drottningholms slottsteater).

    Drottningholms Slottsteater & Teatermuseum

    Around Stockholm

    Slottsteater was completed in 1766 on the instructions of Queen Lovisa Ulrika. Remarkably untouched from the time of Gustav III’s death (1792) until 1922,…

  • Chinese Pavilion (Kina slott)

    Kina Slott

    Around Stockholm

    At the far end of the royal gardens is Kina Slott, a lavishly decorated Chinese pavilion built by King Adolf Fredrik as a birthday surprise for Queen…

  • Mariakyrkan

    Mariakyrkan

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    During medieval times, Sigtuna boasted seven stone-built churches, though most have since crumbled. Mariakyrkan is the oldest brick building in the area –…

  • Rosersbergs Slott

    Rosersbergs Slott

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    Rosersbergs Slott is on lake Mälaren about 9km southeast of Sigtuna. Built in the 1630s, it was used as a royal residence from 1762 to 1860; the interior…

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