Stockholm, stretching across 14 islands and 56 bridges, is known as the Venice of the North, part of an archipelago of around 30,000 islands and islets.
Long ago, logs, known as stocks in Swedish, were used on a holm, an islet, to protect the fresh water of Lake Mälaren from raiders approaching across the Baltic Sea. And that is the story of how Stockholm got its name. From the 19th century, Stockholm’s wealthy classes built grand mansions, frequently overlooking lakes, aspiring to the architectural elegance of Berlin and Paris.
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