Axel Oxenstiernas Palace
Axel Oxenstierna palace is a Mannerist architecture–style building situated in the Old Town of Stockholm, Sweden.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Castle
- Description: was erected for the Lord High Chancellor Axel Oxenstierna and began to be built in 1653
- Also known as: “Axel Oxenstierna palace” and “Axel Oxenstierna Palace”
- Address: Stockholm
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Nobel Prize Museum and Storkyrkan.
Nobel Prize Museum
Museum
Storkyrkan
Church
Photo: ArildV, CC BY-SA 4.0.
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.
Stortorget
Photo: Øyvind Holmstad, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Stortorget is a public square in Gamla Stan, the old town in central Stockholm, Sweden. It is the oldest square in Stockholm, the historical centre on which the medieval urban conglomeration gradually came into being. Stortorget is situated 120 metres southeast of Axel Oxenstiernas Palace.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Gamla stan and Stockholm.
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.
Stockholm
Photo: Thanh-Tung Nguyen, CC BY 2.0.
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.
Blasieholmen
Locality
Photo: ArildV, CC BY-SA 3.0.
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.
Axel Oxenstiernas Palace
- Categories: palace, tourist attraction, architectural landmark, building, historic site, and tourism
- Location: Stockholm Municipality, Stockholm County, Svealand, Sweden, Nordic countries, Europe
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Latitude
59.32593° or 59° 19′ 33″ northLongitude
18.06962° or 18° 4′ 11″ eastElevation
27 metres (89 feet)Inception
1653Levels
4Open location code
9FFW83G9+9ROpenStreetMap ID
way 170363224OpenStreetMap feature
building=yesOpenStreetMap feature
historic=castleGeoNames ID
6944464Wikidata ID
Q403404
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In Other Languages
From Dutch to Swedish—“Axel Oxenstiernas Palace” goes by many names.
- Dutch: “Paleis van Axel Oxenstierna”
- Finnish: “Axel Oxenstiernan palatsi”
- French: “palais d’Axel Oxenstierna”
- French: “Palais d’Axel Oxenstierna”
- German: “Axel Oxenstiernas Palast”
- German: “Oxenstiernska palatset”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Axel Oxenstiernas palats”
- Portuguese: “Palácio Oxenstierna”
- Russian: “Дворец Акселя Оксеншерна”
- Spanish: “Palacio de Axel Oxenstierna”
- Swedish: “Axel Oxenstiernas palats”
- Swedish: “Oxenstiernska Gården”
- Swedish: “Oxenstiernska huset”
- Swedish: “Oxenstiernska palatset”
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