Parliament House
The Parliament House is the seat of the parliament of Sweden, the Riksdag. It is located on nearly half of Helgeandsholmen, in the Gamla stan district of central Stockholm.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Administrative facility
- Description: Parliament House of Sweden
- Also known as: “Parliament House of Sweden (Riksdagshuset)”, “Parliament House, Stockholm”, and “Riksdagshuset”
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Nobel Prize Museum and Bonde Palace.
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. Nobel Prize Museum is situated 310 metres southeast of Parliament House.
Bonde Palace
Castle
Photo: Holger.Ellgaard, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The Bonde Palace is a palace in Gamla stan, the old town in central Stockholm, Sweden. Located between the House of Knights and the Chancellery House, it is, arguably, the most prominent monument of the era of the Swedish Empire, originally designed… Bonde Palace is situated 160 metres southwest of Parliament House.
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. Storkyrkan is situated 250 metres southeast of Parliament House.
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
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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.
Klara
Neighborhood
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Klara is a part of lower Norrmalm in the central part of Stockholm. It has its name from Klara Church. Today the name, though not often used in daily speech, has become synonymous with the old city that once occupied lower Norrmalm.
Parliament House
- Categories: capitol building and government building
- Location: Stockholm Municipality, Stockholm County, Svealand, Sweden, Nordic countries, Europe
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Ukrainian—“Parliament House” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “مبنى البرلمان السويدي”
- Aragonese: “Palacio d’o Parlamento de Suecia”
- Aragonese: “Palacio do Parlamento de Suecia”
- Asturian: “Palaciu del Parlamentu de Suecia”
- Asturian: “Palaciu del Parllamentu de Suecia”
- Bashkir: “Риксдаг бинаһы”
- Catalan: “Palau del Parlament de Suècia”
- Chinese: “国会大厦”
- Chinese: “瑞典國會大廈”
- Chinese: “议会大厦”
- Danish: “Riksdagshuset i Stockholm”
- Danish: “Riksdagshuset”
- Dutch: “Parliament House”
- Esperanto: “Parlamentejo de Svedio”
- Finnish: “Ruotsin valtiopäivätalo”
- French: “Riksdagshuset”
- German: “Reichstagsgebäude”
- German: “Riksdagshuset”
- Hebrew: “בניין הפרלמנט השוודי”
- Inari Sami: “Ruotâ staatâpeivitáálu”
- Italian: “Palazzo del Parlamento svedese”
- Japanese: “スウェーデン国会議事堂”
- Japanese: “国会議事堂 (スウェーデン)”
- Japanese: “国会議事堂”
- Latin: “Aedes Parlamentares Holmienses”
- Latin: “Aedes parlamentariae Holmienses”
- Malay: “Dewan Parlimen, Stockholm”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Riksdagshuset i Stockholm”
- Norwegian: “Riksdagshuset i Stockholm”
- Polish: “Riksdagshuset”
- Portuguese: “Riksdagshuset”
- Russian: “Здание риксдага”
- Slovenian: “Stavba parlamenta, Stockholm”
- Spanish: “Palacio del Parlamento de Suecia”
- Spanish: “Riksdagshuset”
- Swedish: “Riksbyggnaderna”
- Swedish: “Riksdagshuset i Stockholm”
- Swedish: “Riksdagshuset”
- Turkish: “İsveç Parlamento Binası”
- Turkish: “Parlamento Binası”
- Turkish: “Riksdagshuset”
- Ukrainian: “Будівля парламенту Швеції”
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