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Stortorget (Great Square)
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Here in 1520 the Danish king Christian II ordered a massacre of Swedish noblemen. The slaughter paved the way for a national revolt against foreign rule and the founding of Sweden as a sovereign state under King Gustav Vasa, who ruled from 1523 to 1560. One legend holds that if it rains heavily enough on the anniversary of the massacre, the old stones still run red.
- Address: Near Kungliga Slottet, Gamla Stan, Stockholm, 111 29 | Map It
- Location: Gamla Stan and Skeppsholmen
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