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Royal Marriage This Weekend!

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Tomorrow, Sat June 8th, H.R.H. Princess Madeleine volition hook upwards amongst Chris O'Neill ... together with royal marriage fever is descending upon Stockholm. There are some skilful things to know if y'all are visiting Stockholm this weekend, whether y'all desire to come across the couple, bring together the festivities or simply avoid the hooplah! The Royal Couple. Photo yesteryear Brigitte Grenfeldt Princess Madeleine's older sister, the Crown Princess Victoria, got married 3 years ago together with the celebrations were huge amongst Stockholm throwing a week-long Love Festival inwards accolade of the wedding. The festivities this fourth dimension about volition non live equally grand (as Madeleine is solely 4th inwards business to the Swedish throne), but at that topographic point volition yet live plenty to come across together with produce to proceed royalists happy. The marriage itself volition create got house inwards the Royal Chapel at the Royal Palace , ...

The Nobel Museum

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The man... Were y'all aware that the Nobel Prize  is Swedish (though the Peace Prize is awarded inward Oslo)? Were y'all aware that this is because the prizes were stipulated inward the final volition & will of a Swede... Alfred Nobel, the inventor of dynamite? ...and the prize. If this is word for y'all or if your curiosity is piqued, so I conduct maintain the perfect museum for you: The Nobel Museum . This museum is dedicated to both the man, Alfred Nobel , together with the famous prize that he founded. It is non a large museum, but it is even so quite comprehensive. There is an surface area dedicated to the life of Nobel equally good equally a permanent exhibition regarding the history of the prize which includes several interesting objects donated yesteryear Nobel Laureates . They also conduct maintain temporary exhibitions at the museum together with the electrical flow exhibition is "Making Peace" which is a look, through photography, at the people toge...

Restaurant Den Gyldene Freden

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Entrance on Österlånggatan Den Gyldene Freden agency "the golden peace" in addition to refers to the Peace of Nystad, signed past times Sweden in addition to Russian Federation (ending the Great Northern War) inwards 1721. Why mention a eating seat later an virtually 300 yr sometime peace treaty? Well... that's how sometime the eating seat is! Den Gyldene Freden, according to the Guinness Book of Records, is the world's oldest eating seat all the same inwards the same locale... in addition to most of the interior has been unaltered since the eating seat opened inwards 1722. The eating seat has been the haunt of many cultural figures, similar Carl Michael Bellman, Cornelis Vreeswijk in addition to Anders Zorn, through the centuries... in addition to was ofttimes named inwards their songs in addition to poems. These days the Swedish Academy, which chooses the annual Nobel Prize inwards Literature, meets hither for their weekly Th dinner. All of this history has made Gy...