Vaxholm Fortress
Vaxholm Fortress, also known as Vaxholm Castle, is a historic fortification on the island of Vaxholmen in the Stockholm archipelago just east of the Swedish town of Vaxholm.Photo: Cbsahin, CC BY-SA 3.0.
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- Type: Fort
- Description: Swedish fortress
- Also known as: “Vaxholm Castle”, “Vaxholms fästning”, and “Vaxholms kastell”
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Vaxholm Fortress Museum and Vaxholms Hotell.
Vaxholms Hotell
Hotel
Photo: Boberger, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Vaxholms Hotell is situated 250 metres southwest of Vaxholm Fortress.
Rindö Redoubt
Photo: Alers, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Rindö Redoubt is situated 490 metres northeast of Vaxholm Fortress.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Vaxholm and Norra Lagnö.
Vaxholm
Town
Photo: Szilas, Public domain.
The Stockholm archipelago, Stockholms skärgård or skärgården, is a group of thousands of islands in the Svealand region, extending east of Stockholm in the Baltic Sea.
Norra Lagnö
Village
Photo: Larske, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Norra Lagnö is a locality situated on a peninsular on the northern shore of the island of Värmdö in Sweden's Stockholm archipelago. From an administrative perspective, it is located in Värmdö Municipality and Stockholm County and has 332 inhabitants as of 2010. Norra Lagnö is situated 6 km southeast of Vaxholm Fortress.
Österskär
Village
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Österskär is the eastern part of Åkersberga, Österåker Municipality in Sweden. It hosts the terminal station of the Stockholm suburban railway Roslagsbanan. Österskär is situated 7 km northwest of Vaxholm Fortress.
Vaxholm Fortress
- Categories: fortress, architectural ensemble, tourist attraction, heritage site in Sweden, and tourism
- Location: Vaxholm socken, Vaxholm, Vaxholm Municipality, Stockholm County, Svealand, Sweden, Nordic countries, Europe
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In Other Languages
From Basque to Swedish—“Vaxholm Fortress” goes by many names.
- Basque: “Vaxholmeko gaztelua”
- Catalan: “Fortalesa de Vaxholm”
- Danish: “Vaxholm Fæstning”
- Danish: “Vaxholms fæstning”
- Dutch: “Fort Vaxholm”
- Dutch: “Vaxholms kastell”
- Dutch: “Vesting Vaxholm”
- Estonian: “Vaxholmi kastell”
- Estonian: “Vaxholmi kindlus”
- Estonian: “Vaxholmi loss”
- Finnish: “Vaxholmin linnoitus”
- Finnish: “Vaxholms fästning”
- French: “château de Vaxholm”
- French: “Château de Vaxholm”
- German: “Festung Vaxholm”
- German: “Vaxholms kastell”
- Italian: “Castello di Vaxholm”
- Malay: “Kubu Vaxholm”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Vaxholms festning”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Vaxholms kastell”
- Norwegian: “Vaxholms fästning”
- Persian: “قلعه وکسهلم”
- Portuguese: “Fortaleza de Vaxholm”
- Russian: “Vaxholms kastell”
- Russian: “Ваксхольмская крепость”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Vaxholms”
- Swedish: “Vaxholms fästning”
- Swedish: “Vaxholms kastell”
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