Tyresö Palace

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Tyresö Palace is a palace from the 17th century in Tyresö, Stockholm County, Sweden, about 25 km south-east of central Stockholm.The construction of the palace began in the 1620s by the Lord High Steward Gabriel Oxenstierna. The palace was completed in 1636. He also constructed the nearby Tyresö Church, which was inaugurated with his own burial in 1641.The palace was inherited by Maria Sofia De la Gardie in 1648, who had married Gustaf Gabrielsson Oxenstierna, nephew of Swedish Regent and Lord High Chancellor Axel Oxenstierna. Both she and her husband's family were extremely wealthy. Maria Sofia resided in Tyresö Palace, from where she managed her estates around Baltic Sea, until 1694. Between 1699 and 1737, the writer Maria Gustava Gyllenstierna lived in the palace.During the 1770s the palace was modernized and the first English garden in Sweden was created. Planned by the garden architect Fredrik Magnus Piper, it is a mixture of an English park, a Swedish flowery meadow and picture out of a fairy tale - with the ancient forest as its ultimate source. The natural-appearing large-scale landscape gardens still exist today.

"Tyresö slott och park vid Kalvfjärden är Nordiska museets kulturhistoriska miljö med engelsk park och medelhavsinspirerad trädgård. Under sommarsäsong kan du gå på guidad visning i slottet där du får veta mer om människorna som bodde och arbetade här, från 1630-tal till 1930. I den engelska parken kan du ha picknick och promenera på slingrande stigar. På Notholmen finns kafé och fina badklippor. År 1930 testamenterade den siste ägarfamiljen Lagergren slottet med dess samlingar och markområden till Nordiska museet."