Sweden
Svealand
Stockholm County

Riddarholmen

Riddarholmen is a small islet in central , Sweden. The island forms part of , the old town, and houses a number of private palaces dating back to the 17th century.
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  • Type: Islet
  • Description: island and urban district in Stockholm, Sweden
  • Also known as: “The Knights‘ Islet”
  • Neighbors: and

Places of Interest

Highlights include Riddarholm Church and Wrangel Palace.

Church
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Riddarholmen Church is the church of the former medieval Greyfriars Monastery in Stockholm, Sweden. The church serves as the final resting place of most Swedish monarchs.

Castle
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is a townhouse mansion on Riddarholmen islet in , the old town of , .

Castle
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is a castle.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Gamla stan and Stockholm.

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pronounced gamlaˈstɑːn, the Old Town, also known as Staden mellan broarna is the Old Town in , containing genuine cultural heritage, as well as tourist traps.

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is 's capital and largest city, with nearly a million inhabitants in the city, and 2.4 million within . The inner city is made up of 14 islands across Lake Mälaren and three streams into the brackish Baltic Sea, with the with some 24,000 islands, islets and skerries.

Neighborhood
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is a part of lower in the central part of . It has its name from . Today the name, though not often used in daily speech, has become synonymous with the old city that once occupied lower Norrmalm.

Riddarholmen

Latitude
59.32505° or 59° 19′ 30″ north
Longitude
18.06365° or 18° 3′ 49″ east
Elevation
19 metres (62 feet)
Open location code
9FFW83G7+2F
Open­Street­Map ID
way 5120299
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­islet
Geo­Names ID
2682603
Wiki­data ID
Q904462
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In Other Languages

From Basque to Ukrainian—“Riddarholmen” goes by many names.
  • Basque: “Riddarholmen”
  • Bulgarian: “Ридархолмен”
  • Catalan: “Riddarholmen”
  • Cebuano: “Riddarholmen”
  • Chinese: “騎士島”
  • Chinese: “骑士岛”
  • Czech: “Riddarholmen”
  • Danish: “Riddarholmen”
  • Dutch: “Riddarholmen”
  • Finnish: “Riddarholmen”
  • Finnish: “Ritariholma”
  • French: “Riddarholmen”
  • German: “Riddarholmen”
  • Greek: “Ρίνταρχολμεν”
  • Hebrew: “רידרהולם”
  • Hungarian: “Riddarholmen”
  • Italian: “Riddarholmen”
  • Japanese: “リッダルスホルメン”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Riddarholmen”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Riddarholmen”
  • Norwegian: “Riddarholmen”
  • Polish: “Riddarholmen”
  • Portuguese: “Riddarholmen”
  • Romanian: “Riddarholmen”
  • Russian: “Риддархольм”
  • Slovenian: “Riddarholmen”
  • Spanish: “Riddarholmen”
  • Swedish: “Gråbrödraholm”
  • Swedish: “Gråmunkeholmen”
  • Swedish: “Kidaskär”
  • Swedish: “Kvarteret Gråmunkeholmen”
  • Swedish: “Riddarholmen”
  • Ukrainian: “Ріддаргольм”
  • Ukrainian: “Ріддаргольмен”

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Riddarholmen”. Photo: Benoît Derrier, CC BY-SA 2.0.