1936 … On the Continent by Eugene Fodor

Author:Eugene Fodor [FODOR, EUGENE]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780307928665
Published: 2011-07-22T04:00:00+00:00

Stockholm

The capital of Sweden is a city of islands and bridges. In the heart of the Swedish capital stands the foremost architectural achievement of the century: the Stockholm Town Hall. This brilliant example of modern Swedish artistic genius was completed in the year 1923, and is the work of Ragnar Östberg, who spent half a lifetime planning and executing it. No description of mine could do justice to this architectural wonder. It must be seen to be believed, seen not only by itself, but against the background of Stockholm, known as one of the most beautiful cities of the world.

I don’t know when I like Stockholm best, on a night in late May or in June, one of those clear, translucent nights that seem to cast a spell over you, lifting your spirit to the Empyrean heights of the unattainable, or on a day in early autumn—crisp and exhilarating like champagne, with a sky of the deepest blue mirrored in the many waters of this unique city. Then the imposing palace in the late Italian Renaissance style looks down on the “City between the Bridges,” the old Stockholm that was founded about the year 1250 by a powerful earl, Birger Jarl. Those narrow streets could tell many a tale of the times when Gustavus I Vasa (contemporary with Henry VIII) liberated Sweden from Danish oppression, of the proud days of the Thirty Years’ War, when King Gustavus Adolphus brought fame and glory to his country, of the sad days when Queen Christina, his daughter, renounced the throne and the Protestant faith, for which her father had fought so splendidly, or of the beginning of the eighteenth century, when Charles XII fought his wars against half Europe, bringing Sweden to the verge of ruin.

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