Day 6

The second day in Stockholm was entirely dedicated to visiting; we had to make the city card worth the money. Unfortunately enough it was Monday and as you may know a lot of the museums are closed on Mondays, but in such a huge city we could found some of them open.

According to the plan well established the day before we began with the royal palace which was right next to our hostel. The Stockholm Palace is the official residence and major royal palace of the Swedish monarch. We visited the royal apartments and the royal treasury.

Next on the list and also situated in the Old city was the Sankt Nikolai kyrka (Church of St. Nicholas), most commonly known as Storkyrkan (The Great Church) and Stockholms domkyrka (Stockholm Cathedral) and is the oldest church in Gamla Stan. It is an important example of Swedish Brick Gothic. One of the most impressive (in my oppinion) things inside the cathedral was the statue of St. George and the Dragon. The presentation of the dragon was quite unique.
Next stop was the Nobel Museum, which is a museum devoted to circulate information on the Nobel Prize, Nobel laureates from 1901 to present, and the life of the instituter Alfred Nobel (1833-1896). The museum is, together with the Swedish Academy and the Nobel Library, located in the so called Stock Exchange Building (Börshuset) taking up the north side of the square Stortorget in Gamla Stan.

After covering the old city we went to the island of Djurgarden to visit the Vasa Museum, which displays the only almost fully intact 17th century ship that has ever been salvaged, the 64-gun warship Vasa that sank on her maiden voyage in 1628. The Vasa Museum opened in 1990 and, according to the official web site, is the most visited museum in Scandinavia. Fortunately for us we got to the museum just in time to follow a presentation of the history of the ship. That’s how we found out that the colossal construction was built only for the ego of a king and only because the architects were obliged to follow his ridiculous instructions the ship sank in the first day because it was built too high and too narrow to float.
Next stop was the skyview gondola lift built on the left side of the Ericsson Globe. The lift is 100 meters, and consists of two spheric cabins, which gives the visitors an entertaining ride up to the top of the Globe, which is about 130 meters above sea level.
Another place from where we could admire the entire city was the TV tower, where only I decided to go while the boys returned to the hostel...and I got there just in time to catch the sunset, take a look:

On my way back to the hostel...

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