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Biografen Skandia
LA has Mann's Chinese Theater, Melbourne has The Forum and Stockholm has this dreamy 1923 picture palace, designed by Gunnar Asplund and featuring a deep-blue vanishing ceiling and Pompeian rotunda in the lobby. Built inside the neo-Renaissance Warodell House (one of Stockholm's oldest apartment buildings), it's constantly threatening to close due to financial difficulties, so don't miss the chance to take a peek inside one afternoon or evening.
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Kaknästornet
The dowdy retro décor atop this 155m-high communications tower - Stockholm's tallest building - is thoroughly compensated by the 360-degree views over Stockholm and the lush green archipelago. Skip the restaurant for the café, where a mean chocolate cake makes the perfect prop for ferry spotting and sunset vistas.
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Katarina Kyrka
Designed by Jean de la Valĺe and completed in 1695, the sublimely beautiful Katarina Kyrka stands on the 1520 burial site of the Stockholm Blood Bath victims - the betrayed Swedish nobility trapped, beheaded and burnt for opposing King Christian II's Danish invasion. The church itself caught fire in 1723. Restored, fire brought down the cupola again in 1990. It's since been painstakingly reconstructed using 17th-century building methods.
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Maria Magdalena Kyrka
Consecrated in 1643, Södermalm's oldest church stands on the site of a 14th-century chapel, torn down by serial church trasher Gustav Vasa after the Reformation of 1527. Although fire destroyed much of the current building in 1759, it was faithfully re-built, including the transept designed by Nicodemus Tessin the Elder and a beautiful stone entrance portal by Tessin the Younger.
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Östermalms Saluhall
Stockholm's market diva, Östermalms Saluhall is a must-see mix of 1880s architecture, heady aromas, gorgeous stalls and old-fashioned neighbourly hobnobbing. Lust over lobsters, pig-out on salmon pudding and get the low-down on Swedish gourmet from the veteran market vendors.
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St Jakobs Kyrka
Rising beside legendary opera house bistro Bakfickan, this sorbet-hued church sits in the cosiest pocket of Norrmalm (picture bicycles, cobblestones and a continental vibe). Completed in 1643, the building features both Renaissance and Gothic architecture with a magnificent vaulted ceiling, an ornate pulpit (1828), high altarpiece (1937) and elaborate southern entrance.
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Stadsbiblioteket
Designed by Erik Gunnar Asplund in 1924, the Stockholm Public Library is one of Sweden's architectural masterpieces. A classic example of Nordic neo-classicism, its piece de resistance is the breathtakingly beautiful cylindrical lending hall with its Technicolor panorama of books. Add artwork by Ivar Johnson in the vestibule and Nils Dardel in the children's library and you have yourself an unmissable Scandi treat.
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Stadshuset
Built in the National Romantic style using eight million bricks and completed in 1923, Stockholm's iconic City Hall is home of the Nobel Banquet. The Golden Hall is a glittering spectacle made with 10kg of gold and 68 million mosaic pieces. Tours of the building are fascinating, while a soulful chill on the waterside terrace (the sculptures here are by Carl Eldh) is free. For breathtaking view, head to the top of the hulking tower.
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Storkyrkan
One-time venue of royal weddings and coronations, Stockholm's 700-year-old cathedral is also its oldest parish church. The Gothic-cum-baroque interior includes extravagant royal-box pews designed by Nicodemus Tessin the Younger and the famous Parhelion Painting, a 1630 copy of the earlier original depicting Stockholm during an eerie display of atmospheric optics in 1535. The star is German Berndt Notke's sculpture St George and the Dragon.
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Tyska Kyrkan
A reminder of days of the Hanseatic League, when Stockholm and Germany shared tight trade links, the beautiful Tyska Kyrkan (the German Church) dates from the 1570s but was enlarged to its current size between 1638 and 1642. Highlights include a gilded royal gallery historically used for members of the royal German family, royal pews by Nicodemus Tessin the Elder, 119 unique gallery paintings (1660-65) and an ebony and alabaster pulpit (1660).
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