Riddarfjärden Panorama - Stockholm, Sweden

Riddarfjärden is a wide bay right in the middle of Stockholm, and this view looks across its calm water to church spires, a long arched bridge and the rooftops and towers of the old town on the far shore, with Stockholm City Hall standing at the water's edge.

The city is built on 14 islands where Lake Mälaren meets the Baltic Sea, and the water here is clean enough to swim in. Every August there's even an open-water swimming race in the bay.

Summer brings golden evenings that last for hours, when the sun barely sets, and in winter the city lights reflect on dark water or a sheet of ice.

Did You Know? The church on the small island of Riddarholmen is where most Swedish kings and queens have been buried for hundreds of years.

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