Lovön
Lovön is an island in the Swedish Lake Mälaren in Ekerö Municipality of Stockholm County. It was a municipality of its own until 1952, when it was joined with Ekerö Municipality.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Island
- Description: island in Ekerö
- Also known as: “Lovon”
Places of Interest
Highlights include The Chinese Pavilion and Drottningholm Palace Theatre.
The Chinese Pavilion
Photo: Cccefalon, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The Chinese Pavilion, located in the grounds of the Drottningholm Palace park, is a Chinese-inspired royal pavilion originally built between 1753 and 1769. The pavilion is currently one of Sweden's Royal Palaces and a UNESCO World Heritage Site. The Chinese Pavilion is situated 3 km southeast of Lovön.
Drottningholm Palace Theatre
Theater building
Photo: ArildV, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The Drottningholm Palace Theatre is an opera house located at Drottningholm Palace in Stockholm, Sweden. It is one of the few 18th century theatres in Europe that is still used as a theatre with its original stage machinery. Drottningholm Palace Theatre is situated 3 km east of Lovön.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Grimsta and Blackeberg.
Grimsta
Suburb
Photo: Holger.Ellgaard, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Grimsta is a suburb, which is situated 3 km northeast of Lovön.
Blackeberg
Suburb
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Blackeberg is a suburb of Stockholm built in the 1950s, and is part of the Bromma borough. Blackeberg was originally a croft first mentioned in 1599. The croft was demolished in 1861 by Knut Ljunglöf, who built a house, a stable, a mill and a saw instead. Blackeberg is situated 3 km northeast of Lovön.
Drottningholm
Village
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Drottningholm, literally "Queen's Islet", is a locality situated in Ekerö Municipality, Stockholm County, Sweden, with 398 inhabitants in 2010. It is on the island Lovön in lake Mälaren on the outskirts of Stockholm. Drottningholm Palace, the residence of the Swedish royal family since 1981, is here. Drottningholm is situated 3 km east of Lovön.
Lovön
- Category: landform
- Location: Stockholm County, Svealand, Sweden, Nordic countries, Europe
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Swedish—“Lovön” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Lovön”
- Czech: “Lovön”
- Danish: “Lovön”
- Dutch: “Lovön”
- Finnish: “Lovön”
- French: “Lovön”
- Japanese: “ローベン島”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Lovön”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Lovön”
- Norwegian: “Lovön”
- Norwegian: “Lovøn”
- Persian: “لوون (جزیره)”
- Persian: “لوون”
- Russian: “Ловё”
- Russian: “Ловён”
- Russian: “Лувён”
- Spanish: “Lovön”
- Swedish: “Lovön”
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