Stockholm travel tips and stories. Vacations ideas, cruises spa and resorts

Designed and built between 1918 and 1928, Stockholm Public Library is a rotunda library building, designed by Swedish architect Gunnar Asplund who spent a few years researching in Europe and US. Its stark Nordic Classicist composition uses the simple geometry of a cylinder intersecting a cubic base. Built from investigation project with a budget of two million SEK, Stockholm City library became the major work for Gunnar Asplund.

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Grand Hotel Stockholm is a five-star hotel located on the waterfront opposite the Royal Palace and the Old Town and next to the Nationalmuseum. Founded by Frenchman Jean-François Régis Cadier in 1872, this is one of Scandinavia’s leading luxury hotels. Rich in history and tradition, the more than 130 year old Grand Hotel Stockholm occupies prime position and offers high-classes services to its guests. It is an excellent starting point to those who want to discover this magnificent city.

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Opening for the 1912 Olympics, the Radisson Blu Strand Hotel is located in the heart of Stockholm’s theater district. There are many great attractions nearby, such as National Museum, Royal Swedish Opera, Museum of Medieval Stockholm and Stockholm Palace. Offering stunning views of the bay of Nybroviken, this city centre hotel is a perfect base from which to explore the Old Town and modern shopping districts.

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Aurlandsvegen is the mountain road between Aurland and Lardal where you’ll find a unique new breathtaking viewpoint Plattform – Stegastein. Opened in 2006 and pprox. 650 meters above the village Aurland and the fjord, the Stegastein viewing point offers some of the finest sightseeing opportunities in fjord Norway. It’s a perfect place to take your holiday photos. Don’t forget your camera.

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Situated in cit’s picturesque Old Town and approximately 25 miles from the Stockholm airport, Victory hotel is a member of Small Luxury Hotels of the World. Dates from the mid-17th century, The Victory Hotel is a moderately priced lodging option for travelers to the city. With a selection of high quality amenities and first-class services, this is arguably Stockholm’s most comprehensive boutique hotel.

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Kungliga Djurgarden (Royal Djurgarden) is an island consisting mainly of parkland and forest, with enough to see to keep visitors busy for several days. A wonderful walk along Djurgardskanalen during the summer will get you to Skansen, for instance, an open-air museum presenting historical Sweden, and Vasamuseet(the Vasa Museum), featuring the warship Vasa, which sank in Stockholm on her maiden voyage in 1628. Younger visitors will love Junibacken with its storybook worlds of iconic Swedish children’s author, Astrid Lindgren. Thielska Galleriet (the Thielska Gallery) and Prince Eugen’s Prince Eugen’s Waldermarsudde are two outstanding art museums, housed in former private palaces and famous for their collections of Scandinavian paintings and sculptures from the period around 1900.

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The couple, a German and a Swede, respectively, got degrees in biology (Krynitz) and forestry (Strotz), traveled, studied some more, taught, designed, and then, in 1993, bought a farm. And only naturally, very organically, did that farm develop into Urnatur Skogseremitage, an eco-reserve in green parlance, a summer camp for grown-ups in realspeak. Three hours southwest of Stockholm on small Lake Visjo, Urnatur is like a demonstration model for the live-smart movement and a destination for those who wish to not so much turn back the clock as to slow it way down.

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Fabriken Furillen, is a small eco hotel that opened in 2000 and expanded for the better part of the next decade. The brief flight from Stockholm descended into fog at little Visby Airport. Then the 45-minute drive to Furillen a wiper-whipping swim along narrow roads until it slowly lightened to a mist. Furillen is itself an islet in the Baltic Sea off the northeastern coast of Gotland. Unlike Faro, the island just to the north that Ingmar Bergman long called home, a ferry ride isn’t required to get there. Craggy limestone formations loomed to the side of the road like tipsy sentries. Just before dipping to sea level and reaching the causeway to Furillen, the road traversed odd, empty, unnatural pools—as if a giant had taken an ice cream scoop to the earth, the flavor of the day being cement.

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Located in Milan, Italy,this store was founded in 2007 .It shares the concept that home is the extension of the people living in it.There you could enjoy a wide variety of amazingly designed wall papers, wall coatings and hoe textiles with a collection of furnishings, accessories, objects and decorations.

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If there are 2 things Swedes love doing, these are hanging out in the sun and drinking beer. OK, maybe they like other things too! So, when the snow melts and the first sun rays feel lightly warm, you can see all the parks in Stockholm filling up. Vitabergsparken is clearly not an exception.

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