Penningby Castle
Penningby Castle is a medieval-period private castle located the Länna parish of Norrtälje Municipality in Uppland, 70 kilometres north of Stockholm, Sweden. Penningby situated in the valley near Edsviken, a narrow inlet in the Saltsjön bay of the Baltic Sea.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Locality
- Description: castle in Sweden, built in the 1440s
- Also known as: “Penningby slott”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Väsbysjön and Länna Church.
Länna Church
Church
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Länna Church is situated 4 km west of Penningby Castle.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Bergshamra and Roslagen.
Bergshamra
Village
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Bergshamra is a locality in Norrtälje Municipality, Stockholm County, Sweden. It situated some 15 kilometres south of the town of Norrtälje. It had 749 inhabitants in 2010. Bergshamra is situated 5 km south of Penningby Castle.
Roslagen
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Roslagen is the coastal region of the Uppland province in Sweden, east of Stockholm and Uppsala. No longer a formal political entity, it is divided between Stockholm County, containing Lidingö, Vaxholm, Österåker, Norrtälje, and Uppsala County, containing Östhammar, Tierp and Älvkarleby municipalities.
Norrtälje
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Norrtälje, archaic spelling Norrtelje, is a town in northern Stockholm County, and the gateway to the northern parts of Stockholm archipelago. The ports of Kapellskär and Grisslehamn have international ferry connections.
Penningby Castle
- Categories: castle, architectural ensemble, cultural property, tourist attraction, museum, and heritage site in Sweden
- Location: Norrtälje Municipality, Stockholm County, Svealand, Sweden, Nordic countries, Europe
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In Other Languages
From Armenian to Ukrainian—“Penningby Castle” goes by many names.
- Armenian: “Պեննինգբյու”
- Dutch: “Kasteel van Penningby”
- Dutch: “Penningby slott”
- Finnish: “Penningby slott”
- Finnish: “Penningbyn linna”
- German: “Penningby slott”
- German: “Schloss Penningby”
- Persian: “قلعه پانینگبی”
- Russian: “Penningby slott”
- Russian: “Замок Пеннингбю”
- Russian: “Пеннингбю”
- Spanish: “Castillo de Penningby”
- Swedish: “Penningby slott”
- Swedish: “Penningby”
- Ukrainian: “Замок Пенінґбю (Швеція)”
- Ukrainian: “Замок Пенінґбю”
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