stockholm

     

Stockholm (help·info) (IPA: ['stɔkhɔlm]) is the largest city an capital of Sweden. It is the site of the national Swedish government, the parliament, and the official residence of the Swedish monarch.

Trivia about stockholm

  • In 1973 4 bank employees held hostage in this city ended up feeling grateful to their captors
  • This Swedish capital has hotels named for Lord Nelson & his mistress, Lady Hamilton
  • Watch out for sewer rats inside the "Sewer Adventure" at the Aquaria Water Museum in this Swedish capital
  • Ingrid Bergman
  • During the Middle Ages, this capital was mostly confined to Stadsholmen & Riddarholmen islands
  • Ingrid was born August 29, 1915 in this capital city
  • Nobel Prize winners are put up at this city's Grand Hotel on the water opposite the royal palace
  • An athlete in his youth, Gustav VI helped organize the Olympics held in this city in 1912
  • Greta Garbo
  • The oldest part of this Northern European capital lies on Stadsholmen, or "City Island"
  • As of 2003 a Renoir & a Rembrandt remained missing after a robbery from the National Museum in this city
  • The Nobel Prize Dinner is held each December in the Blue Hall of this city's Stadshuset, seen here
  • 18 million pieces of gold & glass cover the walls of the Golden Hall in this city's Stadshus, home to the Nobel Banquet
  • Dublin, Stockholm, Paris
  • Dating from medieval times, Gamla Stan ("Old Town") is the "cradle" of this Scandinavian capital
  • The Nobel Foundation, which oversees the awarding of the Nobel Prizes, is located in this capital
  • Children's tales like "Pippi Longstocking" come to life at Junibacken in this capital of Sweden
  • Alfred Nobel
  • August Strindberg's last home, in a building called "The Blue Tower", is now a museum in this capital
  • Holmium was named for this city
  • The Nobel Museum in this capital lets visitors "see the dynamite, the mold & the books that changed the world"
  • Holmium was named by Per Teodor Cleve for this, his hometown
  • Ingrid Bergman, 1915
  • The Scandic Jarva Krog,the Kung Carl
  • Built on 14 islands, this capital of Sweden is one of the world's most picturesque cities
  • It became the capital of its country in 1634
  • Chill out at the world's first permanent icebar, the Absolut Icebar in this city
  • Michael Nobel is a philanthropist born in this capital city in 1940
  • Lena Olin

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