Tessin Palace
The Tessin Palace is a baroque town house located in Gamla stan, the old town in central Stockholm. Located next to the Royal Palace, it is facing Slottsbacken, the major approach to the Stockholm Palace, and flanked by two alleys, Finska Kyrkogränd and Bollhusgränd.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Castle
- Description: palace
- Address: Stockholm
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Nobel Prize Museum and Livrustkammaren.
Nobel Prize Museum
Museum
Livrustkammaren
Museum
Photo: Holger.Ellgaard, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The Royal Armoury is a museum in the Royal Palace in Stockholm, Sweden. It contains many artifacts of Swedish military history and Swedish royalty. It is the oldest museum in Sweden, established in 1628 by King Gustavus Adolphus when he decided that his clothes from his campaign in Poland should be preserved for posterity. Livrustkammaren is situated 110 metres north of Tessin Palace.
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 150 metres west of Tessin Palace.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Stockholm and Gamla stan.
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.
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.
Blasieholmen
Locality
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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.
Tessin Palace
- Categories: palace, architectural ensemble, building, historic site, tourist attraction, and tourism
- Location: Stockholm Municipality, Stockholm County, Svealand, Sweden, Nordic countries, Europe
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Latitude
59.32563° or 59° 19′ 32″ northLongitude
18.07299° or 18° 4′ 23″ eastElevation
27 metres (89 feet)Inception
1701Open location code
9FFW83GF+75OpenStreetMap ID
way 41079299OpenStreetMap feature
building=yesOpenStreetMap feature
historic=castle
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In Other Languages
From Basque to Swedish—“Tessin Palace” goes by many names.
- Basque: “Tessin jauregia”
- Chinese: “特辛宮”
- Czech: “Tessinský palác”
- Danish: “Tessins palads”
- Dutch: “Tessin Palace”
- Finnish: “Tessinin palatsi”
- French: “palais du Tessin”
- French: “Palais Tessin”
- Georgian: “ტესინთა სასახლე”
- German: “Tessinsches Palais”
- Italian: “Palazzo Tessin”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Tessins palass”
- Norwegian: “Tessins palass”
- Polish: “Pałac Tessinów”
- Portuguese: “Palácio Tessin”
- Portuguese: “Tessinska Palatset”
- Russian: “Тессинский дворец”
- Spanish: “Palacio de Tessin”
- Swedish: “Tessinska palatset”
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