These include three sites on UNESCO’s World Heritage List: the beautiful Skogskyrkogården (the Woodland Cemetery), with its highly innovative modernist and natural-romantic landscape architecture; Drottningholm Palace, with its theatre and park, also referred to as the Versailles of the North and home of the Swedish Royal family; and the remains of the Viking settlement, Birka on Björkö island in Lake Mälaren.
 
Other unique attractions in the hinterlands of Stockholm include Millesgården, a sculpture park and museum with a dramatic location on Lidingö, and the 18th century parks Hagaparken, Albano and Frescati.
 
To experience Stockholm at its most sublime, we highly recommend one of the many boat trips that depart from the various quays around the city – everything from short ferry and sightseeing tours to all-day excursions around Lake Mälaren and the majnificent Stockholm Archipelago.