Riddarfjärden Panorama - Stockholm, Sweden

This camera is mounted on DN-Skrapan, a high-rise building on the Södermalm heights in Stockholm, looking north-east across Riddarfjärden, the bay that forms the western edge of the city's historic island core. Västerbron bridge arcs across the foreground, Rålambshovsparken's tree canopy fills the lower frame, and the spires and rooftops of Gamla Stan and Riddarholmen are visible in the middle distance where the bay narrows towards Lake Mälaren.

Stockholm is built across fourteen islands where Lake Mälaren meets the Baltic Sea, and this camera captures that geography more clearly than almost any other vantage point in the city. The view shifts dramatically through the year, from the long blue twilight of winter evenings to the extraordinary golden light of the Swedish summer, when the sun barely dips below the horizon and the water reflects hours of warm colour.

Riddarholmen, the small island visible at the bend in the bay, contains Riddarholmskyrkan, the burial church of Swedish monarchs. Almost every Swedish king and queen from the medieval period through to the twentieth century is interred there, making it one of the most historically dense small islands in Scandinavia.

Did You Know? DN-Skrapan, the building this camera is mounted on, was Sweden's first skyscraper when it was completed in 1959 and originally served as the headquarters of the newspaper Dagens Nyheter. At the time it was built, its height was considered so controversial that a national debate broke out about whether tall buildings had any place in a Scandinavian city, a conversation that shaped Stockholm's low-rise skyline for decades afterwards.

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