Cemeteries

Many people find a visit to a cemetery, calming and as an opportunity for peaceful thought and meditation. Stockholm's cemeteries are both places of natural beauty and monuments to well-known Swedes.

Skogskyrkogården, designed by the architects Gunnar Asplund and Sigurd Lewerentz in 1921, is now on the UNESCO world heritage list. For those wishing to pay their respects to a favourite figure in history, we list here a few famous Swedes´gravesites.

Below you will find a short list of the most important cemeteries and which influential people lay buried there.

Adolf Fredriks kyrkogård:
Johan Tobias Sergel
Hjalmar Branting
Olof Palme
Anders de Wahl
Thor Modéen

Klara kyrkogård:
Carl Michael Bellman
Nils Ferlin

Maria kyrkogård:
Evert Taube

Photo: Kyrkogårdsförvalningen Stockholm Stad

Norra kyrkogården:
Gösta Ekman
Alfred Nobel
August Strindberg
Ulla Billqvist

Skogskyrkogården:
Greta Garbo
Gunnar Asplund
Ivar Lo-Johansson
Lennart "Nacka" Skoglund

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