Showing posts with label Sweden. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Sweden. Show all posts

17/05/2024

#73 GF - Stockholm, Sweden


Sweden is a highly developed country ranked fifth in the Human Development Index. Sweden maintains a Nordic social welfare system that provides universal health care and tertiary education for its citizens. It has the world's 14th-highest GDP per capita and ranks very highly in quality of life, health, education, protection of civil liberties, economic competitiveness, income equality, gender equality and prosperity.


 

10/09/2020

#27 FOTW - Göteborg, Sweden


A specific genre of metal music, called Göteborg Sound, which belongs to the melodic death metal trend, has developed in Gothenburg. 
In 1731, the Swedish East India Company was established, thanks to which porcelain, tea, spices, fine fabrics, and other luxury goods were brought to Gothenburg by ship.


23/04/2020

City view - Stockholm, Sweden


The city was founded according to tradition in 1252 by Jarl Birger.
The seat of the government and parliament of Sweden and the Swedish royal family.
Numerous monuments originating in Poland (e.g. a tent captured by Sobieski near Vienna, the armor of Polish kings, banners of the Polish army, cannons) can be seen in Livrustkammaren and at the Army Museum in Stockholm.