Gamla Stan

Worth seeing in and around Gamla Stan

10 places within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.

1. 01
   Karolinska Institutet

   Medical university located in Stockholm, Sweden

   3.6 km · Wikipedia
2. 02
   National Library of Sweden

   Sweden's national library

   1.3 km · Wikipedia
3. 03
   Stockholm Olympic Stadium

   Stadium at Stockholm, Sweden

   2.1 km · Wikipedia
4. 04
   Vasa Museum

   Museum in Stockholm, Sweden

   1.1 km · Wikipedia
5. 05
   Nationalmuseum

   Art museum in Stockholm, Sweden

   400 m · Wikipedia
6. 06
   Skansen

   Open-air museum and zoo, showing Swedish folk culture and way of life in the pre-industrial era

   1.6 km · Wikipedia
7. 07
   Stockholm City Hall

   Building of the Municipal Council for the City of Stockholm with the luxury restaurant Stadshuskällaren inside, wherein is the venue of the Nobel Prize banquet

   1 km · Wikipedia
8. 08
   Nobel Prize Museum

   Museum about Alfred Nobel and the Nobel Prize

   200 m · Wikipedia
9. 09
   Royal Institute of Technology

   University in Stockholm, Sweden

   2.3 km · Wikipedia
10. 10
    Storkyrkan

    Lutheran cathedral in Stockholm

    100 m · Wikipedia

Ranked by the number of language editions of Wikipedia with an article on each, from Wikidata; the sentences are the openings of those articles, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Getting to Gamla Stan

Airports

Stockholm-Arlanda (ARN), 37 km · Stockholm Västerås (VST), 86 km · Stockholm Skavsta (NYO), 89 km

Stations

Stockholm Central Station, 1 km · T-Centralen, 900 m · Rådhuset metro station, 1.7 km · Gamla stan metro station, 500 m

• Stockholm / Västerås → Gamla Stan

  87 km · quickest by road, 2h 1m · kr100–130
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• Nyköping → Gamla Stan

  88 km · quickest by road, 2h 1m · kr95–125
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• Linköping → Gamla Stan

  174 km · quickest by road, 3h 9m · kr185–250
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No local-transport research exists yet for Gamla Stan

Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Gamla Stan. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

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