Worth a Detour
Skogskyrkogården
A serene woodland cemetery of the 1920s, a UNESCO site, where the actress Greta Garbo is buried.
- Open
- Always
- Price
- Free
- Time Needed
- 1½ hours
- Address
- Sockenvägen, 122 33 EnskedeDirections
- Getting There
- Skogskyrkogården station (Metro).
Why Go
Designed by Gunnar Asplund and Sigurd Lewerentz, the cemetery blends graves into a forest of pines, with a great granite cross on a meadow.
It's one of the masterpieces of modern landscape design.
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