Stortorget
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.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Øyvind Holmstad, CC BY-SA 3.0.
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.
Tessin Palace
Castle
Photo: FriskoKry, CC BY-SA 3.0.
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. Tessin Palace is situated 140 metres northeast of Stortorget.
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
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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.
Stortorget
- Type: Pedestrian zone
- Description: square in Gamla stan, Stockholm, Sweden
- Category: square
- Location: Stockholm Municipality, Stockholm County, Svealand, Sweden, Nordic countries, Europe
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Latitude
59.325° or 59° 19′ 30″ northLongitude
18.07079° or 18° 4′ 15″ eastElevation
29 metres (95 feet)Open location code
9FFW83GC+28OpenStreetMap ID
way 332635708OpenStreetMap feature
highway=pedestrian
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In Other Languages
From Basque to Ukrainian—“Stortorget” goes by many names.
- Basque: “Stortorget”
- Catalan: “Stortorget”
- Chinese: “大广场”
- Chinese: “大廣場”
- Chinese: “大教堂坡道”
- Czech: “Stortorget”
- Danish: “Stortorget (Stockholm)”
- Danish: “Stortorget”
- Dutch: “Stortorget”
- Egyptian Arabic: “ستورتورجيت”
- Finnish: “Stortorget”
- Finnish: “Suurtori”
- French: “Grand-Place”
- French: “Stortorget”
- German: “Großer Platz”
- German: “Stortorget”
- Italian: “Stortorget”
- Japanese: “大広場”
- Korean: “스토르토리에트”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Stortorget”
- Norwegian: “Stortorget”
- Persian: “استورتوریت”
- Polish: “Rynek w Sztokholmie”
- Portuguese: “Stortorget”
- Russian: “Стурторьет”
- Slovenian: “Stortorget”
- Spanish: “Stortorget”
- Swedish: “Stortorget, Stockholm”
- Swedish: “Stortorget”
- Thai: “สตูทอร์เยท”
- Turkish: “Stortorget”
- Ukrainian: “Стуртор’єт”
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Stortorget”. Photo: Øyvind Holmstad, CC BY-SA 3.0.