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Gamla Stan (Old Town) (V\u00e4sterl\u00e5nggatan and \u00d6sterl\u00e5nggatan Streets, Stockholm)<\/strong>—   the area around the palace, is one of the best preserved medieval city centers anywhere. The city was founded here in 1252.  All of Gamla Stan and the adjacent island of Riddarholmen are like a living pedestrian-friendly museum full of sights, attractions, restaurants, caf\u00e9s, bars and places to shop. Gamla Stan is also popular with aficionados of handicrafts, curios and souvenirs. The narrow winding cobblestone streets, with their buildings in so many different shades of gold, give Gamla Stan its unique character. There are several beautiful churches and museums in Gamla Stan, including Sweden\u2019s national cathedral Stockholm Cathedral and the Nobel Museum. The largest of the attractions in the district is the Royal Palace, one of the largest palaces in the world with over 600 rooms. In addition to the reception rooms, there are several interesting museums in the Palace, including the Royal Armory, with royal costumes and armor. Don’t miss the parade of soldiers and the daily changing of the guard. V\u00e4sterl\u00e5nggatan and \u00d6sterl\u00e5nggatan are the district\u2019s main streets. The city wall that once surrounded the city ran inside these streets along what is now Pr\u00e4stgatan. In the middle of Gamla Stan is Stortorget, the oldest square in Stockholm. Stortorget is the central point from which runs K\u00f6pmangatan, the oldest street in Stockholm, which was mentioned as early as the fourteenth century.  M\u00e5rten Trotzigs gr\u00e4nd (M\u00e5rten Trotzigs alley) is hard to find. It\u2019s the narrowest alley in Gamla Stan, only 90 centimeters wide at its narrowest point.  Make sure not to miss Riddarholmen and the Riddarholmen Church.  The church is a royal burial church, and was built as a Franciscan monastery for the so-called Grey Brother monks in the thirteenth century.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Gamla Stan (Old Town) (V\u00e4sterl\u00e5nggatan and \u00d6sterl\u00e5nggatan Streets, Stockholm)—   the area around the palace, is one of the best preserved medieval city centers anywhere. The city was founded here in 1252.  All of Gamla Stan and the adjacent island of Riddarholmen are like a living pedestrian-friendly museum full of sights, attractions, restaurants, caf\u00e9s, bars and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,25,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-133","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-museums-monuments-other-sites","category-sweden-en","category-things-to-see-and-do"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/contents.swedenvip.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/contents.swedenvip.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/contents.swedenvip.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/contents.swedenvip.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/contents.swedenvip.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=133"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/contents.swedenvip.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":856,"href":"http:\/\/contents.swedenvip.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133\/revisions\/856"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/contents.swedenvip.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=133"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/contents.swedenvip.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=133"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/contents.swedenvip.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=133"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}