Vaxholm Fortress, Vaxholm

Name: Vaxholm Fortress
Address: KASTELLET 1, Vaxholm, 185 99, Sweden
Telephone: +46 8 120 048 70

#2 among attractions in Vaxholm

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Facts and practical information

Vaxholm Fortress is a historic fortification on the island of Vaxholmen in the Stockholm archipelago just east of the Swedish town of Vaxholm. The fortress is accessed by the Kastellet ferry, an electrically powered cable ferry across the channel from Vaxholm town. ()

Local name: Vaxholms fästning Coordinates: 59°24'12"N, 18°21'33"E

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KASTELLET 1Vaxholm 185 99 Sweden

Contact

+46 8 120 048 70

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Vaxholm Fortress – popular in the area (distance from the attraction)

Nearby attractions include: Vaxholms kyrka, Bogesund Castle, Uppland Runic Inscription 171, Ytterby mine.

0.4 miW
Church
Vaxholms kyrka, Vaxholm
11 min walk • Vaxholm Church is a church in central Vaxholm, Sweden. The chapel is a single-nave building built in the Neoclassical style. It was completed in 1803 according to drawings by Carl Fredrik Adelcrantz and Olof Tempelman. It replaced an earlier wooden church in Vaxholm.
2.7 miW
Forts and castles, Vernacular architecture
Bogesund Castle, Vaxholm
69 min walk • Bogesund Castle is a former manor in municipality of Vaxholm, about 15 kilometres to the east of Stockholm, Sweden. It is located in the center of the Bogesundslandet nature reserve. The castle style building overlooks the main shipping channel into and out of Stockholm through the Stockholm archipelago.
4.7 miW
Stela
Uppland Runic Inscription 171, Stockholm
120 min walk • Uppland Runic Inscription 171 or U 171 is the Rundata catalog listing for a Viking Age memorial runestone that is located in Söderby, which is four kilometers west of Vaxholm, Stockholm County, Sweden, and in the historic province of Uppland.
1.6 miN
Village, Nature, Natural attraction
Ytterby mine, Resarö
42 min walk • Ytterby is a village on the Swedish island of Resarö, in Vaxholm Municipality in the Stockholm archipelago. Today the residential area is dominated by suburban homes. The name of the village translates to "outer village".
2.9 miE
Historical place, Forts and castles
Fredriksborgs fästning, Värmdö Island
74 min walk • Fredriksborg Fortress is a fortification in the municipality of Värmdö at Oxdjupet, the entrance to Stockholm. The fortress consisted of towers, fortifications and surrounding buildings.
5.4 miS
59°19'35"N • 18°23'28"E
Gustavsbergs centrum, Gustavsberg, Värmdö
138 min walk • Square
2 miW
Island
Kullö, Vaxholm
53 min walk • Kullö is an island and a locality in the Stockholm archipelago in Sweden. It is situated in Vaxholm Municipality and Stockholm County, and had 889 inhabitants in 2010.