Djurgården

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Djurgården [ jʉ ː r ˌ go ɖən ː ] (Swedish djur = animal, gård / s = the yard, mutatis mutandis: the Tiergarten) is an island, a neighborhood and park area in the east of Stockholm. The partly wooded island belongs to the district of Östermalm Stockholm City and has about 800 inhabitants, is 279 acres in size and is surrounded by a 10,200 -meter long beach. The island is actually called Valdemarsön, but in practice only the town name will be used.

Location

Djurgården is located in the southern part of the Kungliga Djurgården, which was until 1809 a royal hunting ground. The region has a technically easy to reach by car, bus and tram.

The Djurgårdsbrunnskanalen, which goes along the north-east of the island, was completed in 1833, because the local waterway was previously the land uplift has become too narrow and thus unusable.

Attractions

At the central Djurgårdsvägen are a number of museums, such as the Vasa Museum, the Nordic Museum, Liljevalchs Kunsthalle and the Children's Literature Museum June jaws Estonia Memorial, entertainment places, such as Gröna Lund and the Circus, and inns of the 19th century, as immortalized in the literature Hasselbacken. Near the Hasselbacken is also the main entrance to Sweden's first and largest open-air museum Skansen. On the Waldemarsudde is the villa of Prince Eugene, which is now a museum and shows pictures of the Prince and his contemporaries, and thus a fine survey of Swedish painting of the turn of the century (1900) there. Additionally you'll find on the island of the pleasure palace Rosendals slott surrounded by a public park, which is popular in the summer by the Stockholmers for leisure activities and picnic. Every year also finds the Tjejmilen road race held there.

Lilla Sjötullsbron in Djurgården

Parkudden in Djurgården

Gröna Lund on Djurgården

Photochrom of 1897 with a view of the exhibition hall and Nordic Museum