Stockholm City Hall

Stockholm City Hall, inaugurated in 1923, is renowned for hosting the Nobel Prize banquet and offers guided tours showcasing its architectural beauty and historical significance.

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Stockholm City Hall is a working municipal building and one of the great works of twentieth-century architecture. Ragnar Ostberg completed it in 1923 in eight million hand-made bricks, in a National Romantic style that draws on Venetian, Byzantine and Nordic sources without imitating any of them, with a tower topped by the three crowns of Sweden rising above the water.

Its fame rests on the Nobel banquet, held here every December in the Blue Hall — which is not blue, since Ostberg decided during construction that the raw brick was better than the intended plaster. Laureates and guests then process up the staircase to dance in the Golden Hall, whose walls carry eighteen million gold mosaic tiles depicting Swedish history.

Access is by guided tour only, since the building governs the city.

The tower can be climbed separately in summer.

Bookable options include Alfred Nobel themed tours with City Hall entry. Current availability is listed below.