An imposing Golden Hall in the Stockholm City Hall

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Hey guys, today it's not about Helsinki like in my last post - because I made a little round trip - today it's about Stockholm, the capital of Sweden. It has been the last city I was on my "Scandinavian" trip.

Stockholm - "the Venice of the North"

Stockholm had at least as many sights to offer as Tallinn or Helsinki. In addition, Stockholm has a centuries-old history and great nature to offer.

Why Stockholm is also called the "Venice of the North" quickly became clear to me: There are countless bridges here (which is also due to the fact that Stockholm consists of over 14 Baltic Sea islands). One has it in this city in any case not far to the water!

At least in this post you have to be patient a little bit, I saved the many pictures with the bridges for another post - because today I want to tell you a little bit about the city hall in Stockholm.

Stockholms stadshus - the banquet for the awarding of the Nobel Prize takes place here

Stockholm's City Hall, also called Stadshuset, is a very famous landmark of the city. Maybe some of you may already know it, and for a very specific reason: it sometimes stands for Alfred Nobel, and that is because the banquet for the awarding of the Nobel Prizes always takes place here. So it's a very historic building!

And already the location (you can also partly see on my pictures) is very unusual: In front of the city hall there is a large square, where the lawn is accurately cut.

But also the geographical location is very interesting: The city hall is located at the tip of the island Kungsholmen. The tower of the city hall, respectively its top, points to the city center.

The city government and the city parliament also has its seat in the city hall.

The interior of the town hall - detailed art in comparison to the simple outer facade

The interior is not kept simple compared to the exterior facade. First you come from the entrance to a blue hall (Blå hallen). But this is not blue as expected;). The naming has an interesting history: today's hall used to be an inner courtyard that was open to the top. This would have made the blue sky visible - hence the name blue hall.

If you go up the stairs, you are standing in the town hall. There are many showcases in the anteroom. These include many awards and medals. The Stockholm city government meets every three weeks in the town hall.

In this room, the ceiling is particularly fascinating: Relatively what is there instead of the "ceiling": It is an open construction of a roof structure. Its smooth surfaces were used to create colorful paintings and ornaments.

Further on in our little virtual tour we come to the Prince's gallery, Prinsens Galleri. This is where especially guests of honor are received.

Be sure to take a look out the windows south of the gallery - you get an impressive view of Lake Mälaren.

sry for the blurry photo - here you can see the blue hall, which is not blue at all;)

The golden hall - my highlight

If you go further, you come to another anteroom. As soon as the door is opened, you know exactly where you are - because the Golden Hall of the City Hall is more than well known!

The hall is equipped with millions of mosaic stones that can be found on the walls. You seem right. If you go closer and dare to take a look at them, you can see that the small mosaic stones are made of gold leaf and are located between two glass plates.

The hall seems somehow divine to me, but in any case very powerful and splendid. Everyone in the room quickly becomes quiet. The hall has a Byzantine style. Everywhere you can find motifs from Swedish mythology and legends (which I think is great, it reminds me a lot of the insurance building I told you about in one of my last posts). In the hall you will also see the "Queen of Lake Mälaren", a symbolic representation of Stockholm.

And so it is not surprising that this impressive one is also used during the Nobel Prize festivities: first as a kitchen and then in the

Course of the evening as a dance hall.

The Town hall tower

Finally, we visited the town hall tower with the tour (before Corona).

The town hall tower is over 100 m high. Small fun fact: the tower weighs 24,000 tons and is therefore twice as heavy as the Eiffel Tower in Paris.

First you get from the town hall and the golden hall into the inner courtyard of the town hall. As you can see from the pictures, it is characterized by arcades. There is an elevator in the tower or you can use the stairs. We preferred to take the stairs, a little sport can never hurt;))

Once at the top, you come directly to the tower museum.

First we are in a room that has a dome at the top. Here is an imposing statue: that of Erik IX. This was the patron saint of Stockholm. There are also statues and models by many different artists.

Finally we walk to the viewing platform (which I was looking forward to the most). We run through a lot of tight little ones

Corridors, and notice that we are walking easily upwards. The viewing platform goes 360 degrees. This gives you a great overview of Stockholm and many of the small islands. (Unfortunately I couldn't find the pictures anymore, but didn't want to withhold this part from you).

I hope you enjoyed my post :) Please give me your feedback and write  comment if you have already visited the Stockholm City Hall. til next time!

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