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Haga Palace (Swedish: Haga slott), formerly known as the Queen's Pavilion (Swedish: Drottningens paviljong), is located in the Haga Park, Solna Municipality in Metropolitan Stockholm, Sweden.
Haga Palace in Haga Park, Solna Among the older generation, Haga Palace is closely associated with the childhood days of King Carl XVI Gustaf and his older sisters during the 1930s and 1940s. Since 2010, a Swedish heir to the throne has lived at the palace once again.
Jun 28, 2017 · Haga Palace, the current home of the Crown Princess Family of Sweden, is located in Haga Park in Solna, Sweden. It was built in 1802 and designed by King Gustav IV Adolf’s...
Gustav III´s Pavilion at Haga Park is one of the highlights of Swedish art history and is one of the finest examples of the European Neo-Classicism of the late 1700s in Northern Europe. The pavilion was built by architect Olof Tempelman – with detailed instructions from the highly-engaged King Gustav III.
- Great Luxury and A Rural Idyll
- "A Small Nest Where One Can Hardly move."
- Channels, Gazebos and 25,000 New Trees
- A Palace of Enormous Proportions
- Secret Meetings, Christmas Celebrations and Theatrical Suppers
- King Gustav III's Last Day at Haga
- Haga: A Living Environment to This Day
Haga was already well-known to King Gustav III in the 1760s, but the history of the park truly began in 1771 when the king bought the land that now makes up the southern part of Haga Park. The king, who had yearned for both simplicity and great luxury, had a dream about a rural idyll and a simple life far away from his duties. This dream was realis...
Work began on remodelling part of the park in 1772. In contrast to Gripsholm, Ulriksdal and Drottningholm, where the king often spent several months at a time, Haga – with its proximity to the city – was a place where he could take day trips or stay for just a couple of days at a time. The existing yellow-painted wooden building had a certain charm...
It was not until 1781 that the still largely overgrown terrain started to be transformed into an English-style park by the landscape gardener Fredrik Magnus Piper. He had been trained in England, and was one of the most skilled landscape gardeners of his time. The intimate character of the park now became more magnificent, and with the acquisition ...
A large palace building of enormous proportions – what is now known as the Large Palace Foundations – was planned for entertaining and to house King Gustav III's collection of ancient sculptures. The foundation stone for the palace, designed by architect Louis Jean Desprez, was laid on 19 August 1786 on the anniversary of King Gustav III's first co...
From 1788, Haga was the place where King Gustav III wanted to be, spending long periods here. It was during this time that secret meetings – councils of war – were held in the newly built Turkish Kiosk to plan the war of aggression against Russia. The war began after Midsummer 1788, and some of the prisoners of war held in Sweden were put to work i...
16 March 1792 was King Gustav III's last day at Haga. The previous evening, he had invited a small group to supper in the Pavilion during which discussions turned to the attempted assassination of King Joseph I of Portugal in 1758. The next morning, the king inspected the palace construction work and, when asked by the captain on guard Gustaf Löwen...
However, Haga was not entirely forgotten. Here, next to the Pavilion, what is now Haga Palace was built as a home for King Gustav IV Adolf and his family. The building was designed by the architect Carl Christoffer Gjörwell, and was completed in 1805. Even after King Gustav IV Adolf and his family were forced to leave Sweden in 1809, Haga continued...
Jul 7, 2015 · Since 2010, Haga Palace has been the official residence of Crown Princess Victoria of Sweden and her family. Located in Haga Park, in Solna Municipality just north of Stockholm, the palace was originally built in 1802-1805 under the direction of King Gustaf IV Adolf.
The "Queen's Pavilion", today better known as Haga Palace, where guests of the Swedish Government are accommodated, was built in the early years of the 19th century. Haga Park is now part of the world's first National City Park. Gustav III's Pavilion in Haga Park.
