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The ship Vasa gives an idea of the era.. In Swedish history, the first half of the 17th century was a period of awakening.As a leading European power, a role which the country was to impose itself following the Thirty Years' War (1618–1648), required the capital to be refurnished with a worthy architectonic rob—the nation was determined never to repeat the embarrassment experienced ...
For Stockholm, the early 19th century meant the only larger-scale projects to be realised were those initiated by the military which favoured a more stiff classicism, the local Swedish version of the Empire style (in Sweden named Karl Johansstil after King Charles XIV John).
Stockholm two walls drawn in a map of the city in 1500-century. Blue lines represent the older, inner city wall. Red lines represent the newer, outer city wall. The Walls of Stockholm (Swedish: Stockholms stadsmurar) were a medieval fortification and defense system that would protect the city from attack on all sides. While the old city walls ...
The Swedish History Museum (Swedish: Historiska museet or Statens historiska museum) is a museum located in Stockholm, Sweden, that covers Swedish archaeology and cultural history from the Mesolithic period to present day. Founded in 1866, it operates as a government agency and is tasked with preserving Swedish historical items as well as ...
North-bound cliffs of Södermalm. Stockholm stands on a bedrock of gneiss and granite approximately 2 billion years old. Over millions of years, north-west to south-east oriented cracks appeared in the rock, which rivers transformed into the valleys still present in the landscape, for example the lakes Långsjön, Magelungen, and Drevviken.
October: Stockholm co-hosts the 1934 European Wrestling Championships. 1936: Lilienberg's plan is rejected by the Stockholm City Council. Paul Hedqvist presents an alternative plan corresponding to today's reality. [12] 1938: Stockholm co-hosts the 1938 World Figure Skating Championships.
Depiction of the Stockholm Archipelago, c. 1740. The Stockholm Archipelago is a joint valley landscape that has been shaped – and is still being shaped – by post-glacial rebound. [4] [5] It was not until the Viking Age that the archipelago began to assume its present-day contours. The islands rise by about three millimeters each year.