The first images are of Rosersberg Palace, but we only visited the chapel because the next English tour was 90 minutes off.

The second set are of Skokloster Slott a Baroque castle built 1654-76 by Count Carl Gustav Wrangel. The place is enormous, but two things make it extraordinary: (1) The interiors of the rooms are fundamentally unchanged from the late 17th century as the structure stood abandoned for many years; this makes it one of the most authentic exemplars of 17th century interior design. (2) when Wrangel died in 1676 the construction workers simply abandoned their work for fear they would no longer be remunerated. Consequently, a number of rooms were left unfinished; they also departed with their tools left in place (apparently, they were owned by the estate). The exposed layers of construction have provided insight into their construction techniques as well as a contextual sense of how they used their tools.

Also here are images of Gamla Uppsala (Old Uppsala), a pre-Viking and Vikiing burial ground dating back to the 6th century and used into the 12th century. There are 300 artificially created mounts, the largest being of a "royal family" from an early 6th century dynasty. The stone church, built on the foundation site of a pagan temple, is a replacement of the original 12th century structure, which was one of the earliest churches in Sweden (Christianity arrived in 1090). The present structure stems from the 14th and 15th centuries. Unfortunately, the museum was closed when we arrived so I could not establish the date for the wooden bell tower which is adjacent to the church.