Stadsholmen
Stadsholmen is the historical name of an island in the centre of Stockholm, Sweden. Stadsholmen is connected to the mainland via several bridges. Together with the small islands of Riddarholmen and Helgeandsholmen it forms Gamla stan, the old town of Stockholm.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Island
- Description: island constituting the majority of Gamla stan in Stockholm, Sweden
- Also known as: “Staden Islet”, “Stadholm”, and “Stadholmen”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Nobel Prize Museum and Storkyrkan.
Nobel Prize Museum
Museum
The Nobel Prize Museum is located in the former Stock Exchange Building on the north side of the square Stortorget in Gamla Stan, the old town in central Stockholm, Sweden.
Storkyrkan
Church
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Storkyrkan, also called Stockholms domkyrka and Sankt Nikolai kyrka, is the oldest church in Stockholm. Storkyrkan lies in the centre of Stockholm in Gamla stan, between Stockholm Palace and Stortorget, the old main square of Stockholm.
Tessin Palace
Castle
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The Tessin Palace is a baroque town house located in Gamla stan, the old town in central Stockholm. Located next to the Royal Palace, it is facing Slottsbacken, the major approach to the Stockholm Palace, and flanked by two alleys, Finska Kyrkogränd and Bollhusgränd.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Stockholm and Gamla stan.
Stockholm
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Stockholm is Sweden's capital and largest city, with nearly a million inhabitants in the city, and 2.4 million within Stockholm County. The inner city is made up of 14 islands across Lake Mälaren and three streams into the brackish Baltic Sea, with the Stockholm archipelago with some 24,000 islands, islets and skerries.
Gamla stan
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Gamla stan pronounced gamlaˈstɑːn, the Old Town, also known as Staden mellan broarna is the Old Town in Stockholm, containing genuine cultural heritage, as well as tourist traps.
Blasieholmen
Locality
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Blasieholmen is a peninsula in central Stockholm, Sweden. It is located east of Kungsträdgården. Originally a small island, named Käpplingen, it became a peninsula, connected to Norrmalm, during the 17th century.
Stadsholmen
- Category: landform
- Location: Stockholm, Stockholms domkyrkoförs., Stockholm Municipality, Stockholm County, Svealand, Sweden, Nordic countries, Europe
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In Other Languages
From Basque to Ukrainian—“Stadsholmen” goes by many names.
- Basque: “Stadsholmen”
- Catalan: “Stadsholmen”
- Cebuano: “Stadsholmen”
- Chinese: “城岛”
- Chinese: “城島”
- Czech: “Stadsholmen”
- Danish: “Stadsholmen”
- Dutch: “Stadsholmen”
- Estonian: “Stadsholmen”
- Finnish: “Stadsholmen”
- French: “Stadsholmen”
- Georgian: “სტადსჰოლმენი”
- German: “Stadsholmen”
- German: “Stadtinsel”
- Greek: “Σταντσχόλμεν”
- Italian: “Stadsholmen”
- Japanese: “スターズホルメン島”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Stadsholmen”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Stadsholmen”
- Norwegian: “Stadsholmen”
- Polish: “Stadsholmen”
- Portuguese: “Stadsholmen”
- Slovenian: “Stadsholmen”
- Spanish: “Stadsholmen”
- Swedish: “Stadsholmen”
- Turkish: “Stadsholmen”
- Ukrainian: “Стадсгольмен”
- Ukrainian: “Штадсгольмен”
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Localities in the Area
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Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include German Church and Stortorget.
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