Archives for: June 2008
06/27/08
02:21:11 am, Categories: Travel, Stockholm , Tags: cathedral, gamla stan, stockholm, stockholm cathedral, storkyrkan Date: 30-Apr-2008
Time: 11:00
Not much information on this church except that it is built in the 13th century in Gothic structure, but the exterior was substantially remodeled in Baroque style.
01:56:25 am, Categories: Travel, Stockholm , Tags: stockholm, the vasa, vasa, vasa museum, vasamuseet, warship Date: 28-Apr-2008
Time: 11:30
Entrance fee: 95 SEK
The Vasa is the world’s only surviving 17th-century ship. She is an art treasure, decorated with around 700 sculptures and ornaments.
She was set to sail on 10-Aug-1628 but sank only minutes later. The main reason for the Vasa capsizing was that the ballast was not enough as counterweight to the guns, the upper hull, masts and sails of the ship. At that time, there is no scientific methods of calculating ship’s stability.
The Vasa was salvaged with a largely intact hull on 24-Apr-1961, after 333 years on the sea bottom. Thousands of artifacts and the remains of at least 15 people were found in and around the hull. She was housed in a temporary museum called Wasavarvet until 1987, and was then moved to the Vasa Museum.
06/19/08
This is the first destination that I went to after settling down at Stockholm. It is very near to the place where I stayed (well, my friend’s place actually), at Hagalundsgatan. The park is really huge, and the pictures here could be revealing just 10% of the entire area.
Date: 26-Apr-2008
Time: 18:30
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