Slussen
Slussen is a lock in Stockholm, Stockholm Municipality, Stockholm County. Slussen is situated nearby to the scenic viewpoint Katarina Elevator, as well as near Stockholm City Museum.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Lock
- Description: former sluice and road interchange in Stockholm, Sweden
- Also known as: “Karl Johanslussen” and “Victoriaslussen”
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Katarina Elevator and Nobel Prize Museum.
Katarina Elevator
Scenic viewpoint
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The Katarina Elevator or Katarina Lift is a passenger elevator in Stockholm that connects Slussen to the heights of Södermalm. The lift was a shortcut between Katarinavägen, Slussen and Mosebacke torg. Katarina Elevator is situated 160 metres south of Slussen.
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 450 metres north of Slussen.
Stockholm City Museum
Museum
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The Stockholm City Museum is a museum documenting, preserving and exhibiting the history of Stockholm. The museum is housed in Södra Stadshuset at Slussen on Södermalm. Stockholm City Museum is situated 210 metres southwest of Slussen.
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.
Södermalm
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Södermalm is the southern borough of central Stockholm, consisting of the island of Södermalm proper, two smaller islands connected to it from the west, as well as the neighbourhood of Hammarby Sjöstad on the opposite bank of the Hammarby Sjö in the east, which is a redeveloped former industrial area that was transformed into a model sustainable residential community.
Slussen
- Categories: motorway junction and body of water
- Location: Stockholm, Stockholms domkyrkoförs., Stockholm Municipality, Stockholm County, Svealand, Sweden, Nordic countries, Europe
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Catalan to Turkish—“Slussen” goes by many names.
- Catalan: “Slussen”
- Chinese: “斯魯森”
- Danish: “Slussen”
- Dutch: “Slussen”
- Finnish: “Slussen”
- French: “Slussen”
- German: “Karl Johanslussen”
- German: “Slussen”
- Hungarian: “Slussen”
- Italian: “Slussen”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Slussen”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Slussen”
- Portuguese: “Slussen”
- Spanish: “Slussen”
- Swedish: “Slussen”
- Swedish: “Slussens vägsystem”
- Turkish: “Slussen”
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