Second Day - The Royal Palace, Stadshus, and Storkyrkan

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Bröd & Salt. We had coffee and shared a cinnamon bun.

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The Royal Palace. Our first stop was the Royal Treasury with crowns, regalia, and ceremonial robes. Most dated from the16th and 17th centuries. No photos were permitted in the Treasury.

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The Royal Chapel with Jen waving.

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The Silver Throne in the Hall of State. It is Queen Kristina’s throne, perhaps the most famous of the palace’s possessions. The throne was a gift for Kristina’s coronation in 1650.

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The State and Guest Apartments

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This is Karl XI’s Gallery. Each window on the left wall is matched with a niche on the right wall where some of the most valuable items in the palace are displayed. He is difficult to see, but there is a man sitting at the end of this room. He never left the chair and he didn’t speak.

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Lunch at the Stadshus restaurant - Stadshuskällaren. Jen had the hake (a thick filet of a mild white fish) with pureed carrots and a champagne and butter foam. I had a Wallenbergare (a ground veal burger made with egg yolks and cream, breaded and fried) with the classic pureed potatoes, peas, and lingonberries.

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The Blue Room, inside city hall. This is the room where the Nobel Prize Banquet is held.

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The podium at the right of the stairway is used for the Nobel Prize banquet which his held in this room. The winners give their speeches from that location. I had every intention of slipping behind that podium for a quick picture but the guides watch everyone very, very closely. There was to be no photo behind the Nobel podium.

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The City Council Chamber

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The Princes Gallery. On the left are windows that give a view of Lake Mälaren and Södermalm. On the right is a mural painted by Prince Eugen called 'City on the Water'.

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The Golden Hall, where the Nobel Prize Ball is held. The wall mosaics are made up of 18.6 million pieces of glass and gold.

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There was a slight miscalculation about the height of the room; the heads of the characters at the top are missing.

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View of Riddarholmen and Gamla Stan

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Eric the Saint, king of Sweden from 1156-60 and the patron saint of Stockholm.

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Walking back to Gamla Stan

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When we got back to Gamla Stan, the Storkyrkan was still open and we went in.

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The pulpit dates back to 1700.

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The Silver Altar, made of ebony and silver, was donated to the church in the 1650s.

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St. George and the Dragon. Carved of oak, it was consecrated in 1489.

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‘The Last Judgment”, 1696, given to the cathedral in 1777.

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We were excited that this concert of Bach compositions was going to be held in the Church on Thursday evening. We came back and enjoyed both the music and the setting.

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On our way home, we stopped by the pier to see where the ferries departed.

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A mermaid and merman

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Our street is between the brown and yellow buildings on the left.

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An amusement park on Djurgarden

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This is the ferry we’d be taking in the morning to the Vasa Museum.


10/5/16
© Russ Milam 2016