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unusual facts about Gripsholm Castle


Läggesta railway station

Läggesta railway station is the nearest station for all-year rail traffic for visitors to Mariefred and to the Gripsholm Castle in Mariefred, to which regular buses leave from the railway station.


Acid Survivors Foundation

April 28, 2011, Dr. Monira Rahman, Murhabazi Namegabe, and Cecilia Flores-Oebanda are honored as the Children's Rights Heroes for millions of children at the Gripsholm Castle in Mariefred, Sweden.

Hakon Ahlberg

Hakon Ahlberg (June 10, 1891, Harplinge – March 12, 1984, Stockholm) was a Swedish architect, editor and author, best known as the official architect for the repair and restoration of Gripsholm Castle near the town of Mariefred in central Sweden.

Karin Månsdotter

Karin shared the imprisonment of Eric at the first the Royal Palace of Stockholm, and then at Castle of Turku (1570–71), at Kastelholm Castle on Åland, at Gripsholm Castle (1571–73) and Västerås Castle (1573).

László Dombrovszky

Wallenberg's portrait by Dombrovszky is today in Sweden, in the Gripsholm Castle near Stockholm, as a part of the National Portrait Collection (Statens porträttsamlingar) presenting important personalities from the Sweden history.


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