Klara
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.Photo: ArildV, CC BY-SA 3.0.
- Type: Neighborhood
- Description: part of lower Norrmalm in the central part of Stockholm, Sweden
- Also known as: “Klara, Stockholm”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Stockholm Central Station and Culture Centre.
Stockholm Central Station
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Stockholm Central Station, Stockholms centralstation, is Sweden's busiest rail station, in the Norrmalm district of Stockholm. It is directly connected to the Cityterminalen bus station, the Stockholm City commuter train station and the T-Centralen metro station, with a tram stop.
Culture Centre
Photo: Holger.Ellgaard, CC BY-SA 3.0.
House of Culture is a cultural center situated to the south of Sergels torg in central Stockholm, Sweden. The House of Culture has been described as a symbol for Stockholm as well as of the growth of modernism in Sweden.
Klara Church
Church
Photo: ArildV, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The Church of Saint Clare or Klara Church is a church in central Stockholm. A church has been at the site since the 1280s; the current buildings date from the sixteenth through nineteenth centuries.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Norrmalm and Gamla stan.
Norrmalm
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Norrmalm, also known as City, is the central borough of Stockholm, bordering to Östermalm to the east at Birger Jarlsgatan, the Old Town to the south, Kungsholmen to the south-west, and Vasastan north-west of Tegnérgatan.
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.
Klara
- Category: locality
- Location: Stockholm, Stockholms domkyrkoförs., Stockholm Municipality, Stockholm County, Svealand, Sweden, Nordic countries, Europe
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Latitude
59.33089° or 59° 19′ 51″ northLongitude
18.06372° or 18° 3′ 49″ eastOpen location code
9FFW83J7+9FOpenStreetMap ID
node 8807421303OpenStreetMap feature
place=neighbourhoodWikidata ID
Q4346476
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Danish to Turkish—“Klara” goes by many names.
- Danish: “Klara-kvarteret”
- Dutch: “Klara”
- Finnish: “Klara”
- French: “Klara”
- German: “Stadtviertel Klara”
- Italian: “Klara”
- Japanese: “クララ”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Klara-distriktet”
- Norwegian: “Klara-distriktet”
- Portuguese: “Klara”
- Swedish: “Klara”
- Swedish: “Klarakvarteren”
- Turkish: “Klara”
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