Straddling 14 islands where the Baltic meets Lake Malaren, this shiny Nordic star seems to have it all - edgy creativity, inner-city forests and waterways clean enough for a bracing downtown dip.
Here, heritage and hip live side by side; urbanites toast the spring with old-school tunes and wooden huts sidle up to modernist blocks. Washing the lot is a pure northern light, from ice-blue winter tones to amber autumn hues. It hits the earthy red and saffron buildings and makes them glow with fairy-tale appeal.
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