Planning to celebrate New Years Eve in Stockholm, Sweden? It is a fantastic vacation destination, offering a wide variety of options to enjoy, including an exciting ring concert in the new year; dazzling fireworks over the horizon; a special recitation of a classic New Year’s Eve poem; exciting ice skating and lots of dazzling nightlife.
Medieval church concert
Gamla Stan , which is Stockholm’s Old Town, is a favorite spot for locals and visitors, where you can hear the New Year’s Eve concert called Nyårskonsert in Swedish at Storkyrkan Church in the early afternoon. The church has been a Lutheran church since 1527. Originally, it was a medieval cathedral that was built in 1279. It houses unique objects such as the sculpture of Saint George and the Dragon, dating from 1489, the legendary Vädersoltavlan, the oldest oil. painting in Sweden since 1535, and sculpture by Lena Lervik of biblical characters Joseph and Mary since 2002.
Ice skating
Bundle up against the cold elements and go ice skating at Kungstradgarden, a park in central Stockholm. It is commonly known as Kungsan. The park’s central location and its outdoor cafes make it one of the most popular hangouts and hangouts in Stockholm.
The ice rink was inspired by the ice skating rink at Rockefeller Center in New York City. Kungstradgarden opened in 1962 and is popular with visitors from mid-November to March.
Poetry and fireworks
You can visit Stockholm’s Skansen, which opened in 1891 as the world’s first open-air museum, where you can hear Alfred Lord Tennyson’s “Ring Out Wild Bells”. The New Year’s poem has been read by a famous Swede every year at midnight since 1895. The reading is broadcast live across the country.
The old ring comes out, the new one comes in.
Ring, happy bells, through the snow.
This year it’s gone, let it go.
What is false stands out, what is true resonates «.
—Lord Alfred Tennyson
Before and after reading, enjoy music and fireworks as they light up the sky over the water alongside Skansen. The entire inner harbor of Stockholm’s Old Town is great for viewing fireworks, but at Skeppsbron you have the added bonus of the giant Christmas tree as part of your backdrop.
Some good places to see the fireworks include the City Hall (Stadshuset), which sits right on the edge of Lake Mälaren at Kungsholmen, and Västerbron, which is the imposing bridge between Södermalm and Stockholm, another excellent vantage point. Fjällgatan is located on top of a cliff in the Södermalm district of Stockholm. After seeing the fireworks there, you can find a lot of nightlife steps away.
Enjoy the night life
After the fireworks, head to Södermalmstorg, a large, open area where residents and visitors often meet before heading to local restaurants and nightclubs. Located on Götgatan Street in the city’s Södermalm district, the trendy “SoFo” neighborhood offers a host of vintage shops, eclectic shops, clothing stores, galleries, and a host of places to eat and drink. You can find vibrant nightlife in this district where you can wish your fellow Gott nytt Ar, or ‘happy new year’, until the early hours of January 1st.
