Stockholm Cityscape — 3D Map of Gamla Stan and the City Centre

Stockholm is a city built on water. The Swedish capital spreads across fourteen islands where Lake Mälaren meets the Baltic Sea, and no part of the city makes that relationship more apparent than its historic heart — Gamla Stan, the medieval old town, occupying its own island at the centre of everything. From directly above, Stockholm reads as a city defined by its waterways as much as its streets.

This model is centred on Kungliga Slottet — the Royal Palace on the northern edge of Gamla Stan — at 1:5000 scale. The frame stretches from Stockholm Central Station in the west to Skeppsholmen in the east, and from the Hallwyl Museum in the north to Ivar Lo's Park in the south. Cast in white resin and mounted in an oak frame, Gamla Stan's island form is immediately legible — a compact medieval street pattern surrounded by open water on all sides.

The area

The model covers the historic and civic core of Stockholm, with Gamla Stan — the old town dating to the 13th century — at its centre. Kungliga Slottet, the vast Baroque royal palace designed by Nicodemus Tessin the Younger and completed in 1754, dominates the northern tip of the island. The dense medieval street pattern of Gamla Stan fans out to the south, its narrow lanes and cobbled alleys still following the footprint of the original walled city. The Riksdag — Sweden's parliament building — sits on the small island of Helgeandsholmen immediately north of the palace, separated from the mainland by the Norrström channel. Stockholm Central Station anchors the western edge of the frame, and the open parkland and museum island of Skeppsholmen closes the eastern side. The water that surrounds and separates these areas — the channels, inlets and open stretches of the inner harbour — is as much a part of the cityscape as the buildings themselves.

Options and finish

• Frame: Oak frame, available in light or dark stain
• Acrylic case: Optional
• Display: Hanging system included — display vertically on a wall or horizontally on a desk or tabletop
• Scale: 1:5000

For more on how our cityscapes are made — the satellite data, the process, the thinking behind them — see our 3D cityscape art guide.