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Cemetery sights in Sweden

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    Skogskyrkogården

    One of Stockholm’s more unusual attractions, Skogskyrkogården is an arrestingly beautiful cemetery set in soothing pine woodland. Designed by the great Erik Gunnar Asplund and Sigurd Lewerentz, it’s on the Unesco World Heritage list and famed for its functionalist buildings. Famous residents include Stockholm screen goddess Greta Garbo. To get there, take the metro to T-Skogskyrkogården.

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