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Dresden Cathedral, built between 1739 and 1755 for the Saxon royal court by architect Gaetano Chiaveri, is the city's Catholic cathedral. Known in German as the Hofkirche, it stands near the Elbe beside the Residenzschloss and holds the burial vault of several members of the House of Wettin.
The Zwinger is a Baroque palace complex in central Dresden, built from 1709 under architect Matthäus Daniel Pöppelmann for Augustus the Strong. Its pavilions, galleries and gardens surround a courtyard with fountains, and the Semper Gallery wing, added in 1855, now houses several of the city's art collections.
Brühl's Terrace is a raised promenade above the bank of the Elbe in central Dresden, built on the site of former city fortifications and named after an 18th-century statesman, Heinrich von Brühl. Nicknamed the 'Balcony of Europe', it runs along the Altstadt between the Albertinum and the Hofkirche.
Dresden Castle, also called the Residenzschloss, was for almost 400 years the residence of the electors and kings of Saxony. Largely destroyed in the 1945 bombing of Dresden and rebuilt after German reunification, it now houses museum collections including the Historic and New Green Vault, the armoury, and a coin collection.
The Frauenkirche is a Lutheran church in Dresden, rebuilt between 1994 and 2005 after its destruction in the 1945 firebombing of the city. The present building is a reconstruction of the 18th-century Baroque church designed by George Bähr, known for one of the largest domes in Europe.
The Albertinum is a sandstone Renaissance Revival museum building on Brühl's Terrace, named after King Albert of Saxony. It houses the Dresden State Art Collections' New Masters Gallery and Sculpture Collection, showing paintings and sculpture from the Romantic period to the present.
SkyView is a pair of spherical glass gondolas that ride on rails up the outside of Avicii Arena, the domed arena in Johanneshov long known as Globen. Opened in 2010 and designed by Berg Arkitektkontor, the architects of the arena itself, it carries up to 12 people per gondola to the top of the dome, 85 metres up, for a view across Stockholm.
The German Hygiene Museum is a medical and science museum in Dresden, founded in 1912 by businessman Karl August Lingner after the 1911 International Hygiene Exhibition. Its current building, by architect Wilhelm Kreis, opened in 1930 and displays the Gläserner Mensch, a transparent anatomical model of the human body.
The Großer Garten is a Baroque park covering about 1.8 square kilometres in central Dresden, laid out from 1676 for Elector John George III and open to the public since 1814. Symmetrical avenues lead to the Sommerpalais at its centre, and the park also contains Dresden Zoo and the Botanical Garden.
Stockholm City Hall is the seat of Stockholm Municipality on the eastern tip of Kungsholmen, built from 1911 to 1923 of nearly eight million red bricks to designs by Ragnar Östberg. It can be visited only on guided tours, which lead through the Blue Hall, where the Nobel banquet is held, the Golden Hall, the Council Chamber and the Prince's Gallery.
Riddarholmen Church is the former church of a Franciscan friary founded on Riddarholmen around 1270, and the burial church of Swedish monarchs from Gustavus Adolphus to Gustaf V. Its cast-iron spire replaced one destroyed by lightning in 1835, and its walls carry the coats of arms of deceased knights of the Order of the Seraphim.
The German Church in Gamla stan grew from the 14th-century guildhall of St Gertrude and was enlarged into a two-nave church by Hans Jakob Kristler in 1638–1643. After a fire in 1878, Berlin architect Julius Raschdorff built the present brick tower and copper spire, 96 metres tall. Inside are a Baroque altar and a royal gallery designed by Nicodemus Tessin the Elder.
Fotografiska is a museum of photography that opened in May 2010 in Stora Tullhuset, a brick customs house on Stadsgårdshamnen in Södermalm built in 1906–1910 to designs by Ferdinand Boberg. It has no permanent collection and shows changing exhibitions of photographers, from Annie Leibovitz at the opening to Anton Corbijn and Helen Levitt, with a restaurant on the top floor.
Stortorget is the oldest square in Stockholm, at the centre of Gamla stan, the medieval old town. Tall gabled merchant houses painted red and ochre line its south and west sides, and the 18th-century Stock Exchange Building on the north side houses the Swedish Academy and the Nobel Prize Museum. A Christmas market fills the square each winter.
The Nobel Prize Museum occupies the former Stock Exchange Building on Stortorget in Gamla stan, built in the 1770s. Opened in 2001 for the centenary of the prize, it presents Alfred Nobel and the laureates through objects they donated, films and changing exhibitions; the Swedish Academy also has its rooms in the building.
Storkyrkan, also called Stockholm Cathedral or the Church of St Nicholas, is the oldest church in Stockholm, standing in Gamla stan between the Royal Palace and Stortorget. Dedicated in 1306 and given its Baroque exterior in the 18th century, it keeps a brick-vaulted Gothic interior with a late medieval St George and the Dragon and the painting Vädersolstavlan.
Stockholm Palace is the official residence of the Swedish monarch, standing in Gamla stan on the site of Tre Kronor Castle, which burned in 1697. Designed by Nicodemus Tessin the Younger and completed under Carl Hårleman in 1754, it holds the Royal Apartments, the Hall of State, the Treasury with the state regalia and the Museum Three Crowns.
Sven-Harry's Art Museum opened in 2011 in a brass-clad building by Wingårdh Arkitektkontor beside Vasaparken, founded by the builder Sven-Harry Karlsson. The lower floors hold an exhibition hall; the top floor recreates his 1770s home Ekholmsnäs on Lidingö with works by Carl Fredrik Hill, Helene Schjerfbeck and Anders Zorn, and the roof terrace has sculptures.
The Royal Armoury, founded in 1628 when Gustav II Adolf ordered his campaign clothes to be kept, is Sweden's oldest museum and lies in the cellar vaults of Stockholm Palace. It shows armour, coronation robes, the king's clothes from the battle of Lützen, his stuffed horse Streiff and royal carriages.
Avicii Experience is a museum about the Swedish music producer Tim Bergling, known as Avicii, opened in February 2022 in the Space building at Sergels torg, one floor below street level. Created with his family after his death in 2018, it shows a reconstruction of his childhood room and objects and photos from his life, and covers mental health among young people.
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