Riddarfjärden

Riddarfjärden

Riddarfjärden, literally the "Knight Firth", is a bay of Lake Mälaren in central Stockholm. Stockholm was founded in 1252 on an island in the stream where Lake Mälaren (from the west) drains into the Baltic Sea (to the east). The island is today called Stadsholmen and constitutes Stockholm's Old Town. It is surrounded by land to the north (Norrmalm) and south (Södermalm), and by water to the west (Riddarfjärden) and east (Stockholms ström).

The panorama picture featured in this article was taken from the heights of Södermalm, west of Stadsholmen, looking down on Riddarfjärden. Left to right are viewable:
* Västerbron bridge,
* Kungsholmen Island
* Stockholm City Hall, a red brick building with a bell tower, where the Nobel Prize dinner is served
* Tower of Klara Kyrka on Norrmalm, with green copper roof
* five white sky scrapers between Sergels Torg and Hötorget
* construction cranes
* iron tower of Riddarholmskyrkan on Riddarholmen Island
* yellow tower of Storkyrkan on Stadsholmen, in front of the flat roof of the Stockholm Palace
* narrow tower of Tyska Kyrkan on Stadsholmen
* distant radio and TV tower Kaknästornet

See also

* Geography of Stockholm

External links


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