Drottingholm Palace is the permanent home residence of the Swedish royal family. While part of the palace is closed for this reason, much of the house and gardens is open for tourists. Drottingholm also has the distinction as being placed on the UNESCO World Heritage list. Drottningholm Palace is located on an island in Lake Mälaren on the western outskirts of Stockholm. The palace was constructed according to a French prototype by the architect Nicodemus Tessin the Elder, by commission of Queen Hedvig Eleonora.
The palace features magnificent salons from the seventeenth, eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, a beautiful park, a unique palace theater and a Chinese Pavilion.
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| View from inside the palace looking into the gardens |
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| Portraits of a royal family |
Hedvig Eleonora's state bedchamber was the heart of the state reception suite in the 1600s and was created by the country's foremost artists and craftsmen.
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The queen is holding a portrait of her son, the King of Sweden. She was appointed his regent ruler as he came to the throne at a very young age.
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Belle had enough of the royal palace |
Since Belle was good during the palace tour, we rewarded her with her first ice cream bar.
As you can probably tell, she loved it!
After our ice cream break, we explored the gardens. The palace gardens, which were influenced by the baroque style, were created at the end of the 17th century under the direction of Hedwig Eleonora. The architects were inspired by newly planted palace gardens in France at the time, where the ideal was strict, ordered and symmetrical.
The Chinese Pavillion
King Adolf Fredrik surprised Queen Lovisa Ulrika on her birthday in 1753 with a small Chinese palace in the Drottningholm Palace park
Another successful day of sightseeing...but I think Belle had had enough!
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