Sweden · 19th century
Haga Palace (Swedish: Haga slott), formerly known as the Queen's Pavilion (Swedish: Drottningens paviljong), is located in the Haga Park, Solna Municipality in Metropolitan Stockholm, Sweden. The palace, built between 1802 – 1805, was modelled after ballet-master Louis Gallodier's Italian villa in Drottningholm by architect Carl Christoffer Gjörwell on appointment by King Gustav IV Adolf for the royal children.
It has been the home or summerhouse for several members of the Swedish royal family – most notably it was the birthplace of the present King – until 1966 when King Gustaf VI Adolf transferred its disposal to the government and it was turned into a guesthouse for distinguished foreign official visitors. In 2009, it was announced by Prime Minister Fredrik Reinfeldt that the rights of disposal to the palace would be transferred back to the royal court to be used by Victoria, Crown Princess of Sweden and her husband, Prince Daniel, Duke of Västergötland, as a wedding gift in 2010. They moved into Haga Palace after their wedding on 19 June that year.
Text adapted from “Haga Palace” on Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Haga Palace ranks #412 of 9,079 worldwide in the atlas's castle fame ranking, and #4 of the 209 mapped in Sweden. Founded 1805, it is older than 12% of the atlas's dated landmarks — one of 717 atlas entries founded in the 19th century. Its Wikipedia articles were opened 10,107 times in the last 60 days, more than 94% of the atlas. 32 more atlas landmarks stand within 25 km. The nearest day-trip guide is Stockholm, 4 km away. See how Sweden compares in the castle statistics.
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