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Stockholm International Film Festival
Stockholm welcomes talented new directors to Stockholm International Film Festival. The 24-hour festival is one of the leading competitive film festivals in northern Europe. The event's main…
Stockholm International Horse Show
Stockholm's Globe Arena presents its annual International Horse Show, a grand mix of everything from elegant dressage displays to diminutive Shetland ponies. Competitions feature Sweden's…
If you're in Stockholm on 10 December, check out the crowds forming outside the Stockholm Concert Hall for the annual Nobel awards. It's unlikely you'll be lucky enough to attend the ceremony…
Stockholm's mammoth Skansen open-air museum offers up its own charming festivities for traditional Lucia Day. A young girl representing Lucia arrives in procession all dressed in white with…
The Skansen Christmas Market is one of the biggest in Sweden and dates back to 1903. Visitors can admire craft products in the Town Quarter, buy Christmas ornaments and sweets, and warm up…
Ice sculptors and fire artists do wonderful things with the elements on Skansen's Solliden Square for Stockholm's Winter Solstice Festival. The artists are accompanied by specially composed…
Christmas Fair in the Old Town
Since 1914, the main square in Stockholm's Gamla Stan has hosted a traditional Swedish Christmas fair. Stock up on presents and warm up with candy and glögg. Surrounded by snow and medieval…
Julotta (Early Christmas Morning Service)
The Early Christmas Morning Service - or Julotta - in Skansen's Seglora Kyrka church is a very atmospheric way to start the festivities of the day...with the path up to the church lined with torches.
The New Year celebration at Stockholm's famous Skansen open-air museum is a fairly sedate option - visitors can listen to Tennyson's Ring Out Wild Bells being read out at the stroke of midnight.
Galileo's Telescope: The instrument that changed the world
Marking the fourth centenary of the first astronomical discoveries made by Galileo Galilei, the Galileo's Telescope exhibition at Stockholm's Nobel Museum is dedicated to the discoveries of…
The Nutcracker or Petter's and Lotta's Christmas
A production of The Nutcracker has become a winter tradition at Stockholm's Royal Opera House. This performance combines the magic of Tchaikovsky's classic ballet with the popular Swedish…
Serious metal hitting ice. The annual 48-mile Viking Run stretches from Uppsala to Stockholm. If you're not joining in the fun, get out of the way. Thousands of blades can be dangerous.
Branded "the sport world's own Oscar-gala" by the organisers, the annual Swedish Sport Gala (Svenska Idrottsgalan) takes place at Stockholm's Globe Arena.
Want to look good on a bike? Then head to Sweden's popular bike show, På två hjul, at the Stockholm International Fairs & Congress Center. The show organises test rides and sells all the…
Watch experts in popping and locking at the Juste Debout Scandinavian elimination series in venues around Stockholm. If you aren't clued up in streetdance talk, then all the more reason to…
From huge meringue-style dresses to simple white frocks, the Bride Fair at the Grand Hotel in Stockholm has every style of wedding garment you could possibly wish for - plus a whole lot more…
Once a year, hundreds of exhibitors descend upon Stockholm's impressive International Fairs Center to show off their works for the interior. From the home of IKEA, expect nothing less than…
Inject some Swedish style into your home by picking up some cutting-edge pieces at the Stockholm Furniture Fair. Held at the International Fairs & Congress Center, it wows visitors with…
Stockholm's Globen arena hosts this high-profile indoor athletics event, and it's a sell-out every year. GE Galan attracts top athletes from all over the world, with competitions for both men…
Ice-skating is fun wherever you are, but remember, in Stockholm everyone is rather good at it. After all, the locals have dealt with a lot of ice over the years. Let yourself go at the city's…
