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Skokloster Castle
Skokloster Castle. Photo via Wikimedia Commons.

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Skokloster Castle (Swedish: Skoklosters slott) is a Swedish Baroque castle built between 1654 and 1676 by Carl Gustaf Wrangel, located on a peninsula of Lake Mälaren between Stockholm and Uppsala. It became a state museum in the 1970s and displays collections of paintings, furniture, textiles and tableware as well as books and weapons that amount to 20,000 items.

Adapted from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA). Photography via Wikimedia Commons.

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