{"id":9192,"date":"2010-08-19T23:30:19","date_gmt":"2010-08-20T06:30:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/index.php\/archives\/9192"},"modified":"2010-08-19T23:30:19","modified_gmt":"2010-08-20T06:30:19","slug":"tradgardsgatan-and-stortorget-in-the-old-town-of-stockholm-sweden","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/9192","title":{"rendered":"Tr\u00ed\u00a4dg\u00ed\u00a5rdsgatan and Stortorget in the Old Town of Stockholm, Sweden"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A block to the south of Slottsbaken is Tr\u00ed\u00a4dg\u00ed\u00a5rdsgatan (Garden Street) named after the Royal Gardens that were formerly maintained there. A small public square called Bollhust\u00ed\u00a4ppan (Ball House Square) may be entered from Tr\u00ed\u00a4dg\u00ed\u00a5rdsgatan where the diminutive statue of J\u00ed\u00a4rnpojke (&#8220;Iron Boy&#8221;) sits staring at the moon. Visitors leave coins and sweets for J\u00ed\u00a4rnpojke and rub his head in the belief that doing so will insure a return visit to Stockholm. A short distance away is Stortorget (The Big Square) with colorful buildings, the Stock Exchange Building, and a well .\u00a0The Stock Exchange Building was built in 1773-1776 and now is home to\u00c2\u00a0the Swedish Academy, the Nobel Museum, and the Nobel Library.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/Tradgardsgatan.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-9200\" title=\"Tr\u00ed\u00a4dg\u00ed\u00a5rdsgatan\" src=\"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/Tradgardsgatan-1024x682.jpg\" alt=\"Tr\u00ed\u00a4dg\u00ed\u00a5rdsgatan\" width=\"491\" height=\"327\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Tr\u00ed\u00a4dg\u00ed\u00a5rdsgatan<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">SOURCE: Tr\u00ed\u00a4dg\u00ed\u00a5rdsgatan (Stockholm, Sweden), photographed by Stephen J. Danko on 04 Aug 2010.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/Jarnpojke.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-9201    aligncenter\" title=\"J\u00ed\u00a4rnpojke\" src=\"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/Jarnpojke-1024x682.jpg\" alt=\"J\u00ed\u00a4rnpojke\" width=\"491\" height=\"327\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>J\u00ed\u00a4rnpojke<\/em><\/p>\n<p>SOURCE: J\u00ed\u00a4rnpojke (Stockholm, Sweden), photographed by Stephen J. Danko on 04 Aug 2010.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/Stortorget.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-9203\" title=\"Stortorget\" src=\"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/Stortorget-1024x682.jpg\" alt=\"Stortorget\" width=\"491\" height=\"327\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Stortorget<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">SOURCE:\u00a0Stortorget (Stockholm, Sweden), photographed by Stephen J. Danko on 04 Aug 2010.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/Stock-Exchange.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-9204\" title=\"The Stock Exchange Building\" src=\"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/Stock-Exchange-1024x682.jpg\" alt=\"The Stock Exchange Building\" width=\"491\" height=\"327\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>The Stock Exchange Building<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">SOURCE:\u00a0The Stock Exchange Building\u00c2\u00a0(Stockholm, Sweden), photographed by Stephen J. Danko on 04 Aug 2010.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Copyright \u00a9 2010 by Stephen J. Danko<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A block to the south of Slottsbaken is Tr\u00ed\u00a4dg\u00ed\u00a5rdsgatan (Garden Street) named after the Royal Gardens that were formerly maintained there. A small public square called Bollhust\u00ed\u00a4ppan (Ball House Square) may be entered from Tr\u00ed\u00a4dg\u00ed\u00a5rdsgatan where the diminutive statue of J\u00ed\u00a4rnpojke (&#8220;Iron Boy&#8221;) sits staring at the moon. Visitors leave coins and sweets for J\u00ed\u00a4rnpojke and rub his head in the belief that doing so will insure a return visit to Stockholm. A short distance away is Stortorget (The Big Square) with colorful buildings, the Stock Exchange Building, and a well. The Stock Exchange Building was built in 1773-1776 and now is home to the Swedish Academy, the Nobel Museum, and the Nobel Library. <a href=\"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/9192\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[27],"tags":[166,240],"class_list":["post-9192","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-journal","tag-baltic-vacation","tag-stockholm"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pyBfX-2og","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9192","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9192"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9192\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9192"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9192"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9192"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}