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Sweden’s national radio service, Swedish Radio (in Swedish: Sveriges Radio) or SR, is based at Radiohuset (translated as ‘Radio House’) on Oxenstiernsgatan in the Kvarteret Förrådsbacken area of Stockholm’s Östermalm district. Radiohuset serves as the headquarters of SR and houses editorial and administrative offices, along with studios and SR’s music archive, the Grammofonarkivet. Much of SR’s output on national radio Read more...
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Gamla stan means the Old Town in Swedish and refers to the historic centre of Stockholm, Sweden, an area comprising the island of Stadsholmen, and the surrounding islets of Helgeandsholmen, Riddarholmen and Strömsborg. Until 1980, it was officially called the City Between the Bridges (or Staden mellan broarna in Swedish). Present-day Stockholm has its foundations here, with the area substantially Read more...
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Swedish rapper Einár was shot dead, aged 19, outside an apartment complex in southeast Stockholm’s Hammarby sjöstad district on the evening of 21 October 2021. It is believed to be a gang-related targeted killing. Einár, whose real name was Nils Kurt Erik Einar Grönberg, rose to prominence in Sweden with the 2019 release of his hit single Katten i trakten Read more...
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The tallest building in the city of Stockholm, Sweden, is the Kista Science Tower which has a height of 156 metres (or 511.8 feet) to the tip of its rooftop antenna. The 32-storey three-sided modernist skyscraper, located in the Kista district, some 10 kilometers (or 6.2 miles) northwest of Stockholm city centre, houses commercial offices and is the tallest of Read more...
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