Stockholm Palace
— — a long stone face turned to the water.
Not only on a wall.
“The royal palace of Sweden sits at the northern edge of Gamla Stan, a wide baroque block of pale sandstone-coloured stucco looking across the Norrström channel to the opera house. Over six hundred rooms, most of them still working offices of the monarchy. The guard changes at noon in the outer courtyard, and the harbour ferries pass close enough below the north façade that their wakes throw light up onto the stone. from the studio
Stockholm Palace, on ceramic.
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The place, in three passes.
Stockholms slott stands on Stadsholmen, the small island that holds Gamla Stan, in the old core of Stockholm. The current palace was designed by Nicodemus Tessin the Younger after the medieval Tre Kronor castle burned in 1697, and was occupied from 1754. The building is laid out as a square around an inner courtyard, with four façades each turned to its own view, and is the official residence of King Carl XVI Gustaf. It is one of the largest working royal palaces in Europe, with more than six hundred rooms.
Tessin's design is Italian baroque held to a Swedish climate. The exterior is rendered stucco in a warm pale yellow over brick, with sandstone dressings on the window surrounds and the heavy rusticated ground floor. The four façades each carry their own character: the north front faces the water with a colonnade, the south front opens onto Slottsbacken, the west onto the outer courtyard, and the east onto the Lejonbacken slope down to Strömmen. The cornice line stays nearly unbroken across all four sides.
The palace is open to the public year-round, with hours that shorten in winter. A single ticket covers the Royal Apartments, the Treasury in the cellar vaults, the Tre Kronor Museum, and Gustav III's Museum of Antiquities. The changing of the guard takes place daily in the outer courtyard, generally at 12:15 on weekdays and 13:15 on Sundays, weather permitting. The closest metro station is Gamla Stan, a five-minute walk south through the old town.