Solliden Palace, Öland


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Something this big was *accidentally* taken home..........????:whistling:
 
This year's exhibition at Solliden Palace:
Karl XIV Johan - The King who built the new Sweden.
"In the exhibition we get a glimpse of Karl XIV Johan's bed chamber. In 1818, Karl Johan bought Älvdalen's porphyry, and here we also see some of the magnificent porphyry urns produced there. The exhibition also tells about his influence on Swedish business and cultural life", says Curator of the Royal Collections Kerstin Hagsgård.
The exhibition and the park will open this year on May 10th, at. 11:00.
https://www.facebook.com/Sollidenss...0.1522340059./976650869167462/?type=3&theater
 
:previous: Would love to see this exhibit! This intrigues me: " 'The exhibition also tells about his impact on Swedish nutritional and cultural life,' says Kerstin Hagsgård, curator." :flowers:
 
First common hepaticas in Solliden, photo from Solliden's Facebook. It has been snowing in Solliden today.
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Photos from Solliden this week, from Palace's Facebook.

The spring flowers are lovely
https://www.facebook.com/Sollidensslott/posts/994418864057329

Tulips "Estelle"
https://www.facebook.com/Sollidensslott/posts/994420757390473

Birds like Solliden
https://www.facebook.com/Sollidensslott/posts/996266627205886

TV4's reporter Jesper Börjesson drove yesterday to Solliden to interview the king. Börjesson hosts TV4's annual TV-program of the royal family.
"Solliden on Öland is guarded by cows"
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At Solliden the park was opened today. And at Solliden, like on the whole Öland, is on 10th-13th May "Öland Spirar!" festival. In Solliden the visitors get into some private parts of the park, which are not normally open to visitors. People are taken to the greenhouse by tractor. The old playhouse is open for the visitors. Guided tours are organized at the park.

The weather is great at Solliden today and people enjoy of it.
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Beautiful flowers
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The old playhouse has been open for the public during "Öland spirar!" days. Photos from Solliden Palace's Facebook.
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Photos from Solliden Palace's Facebook, from yesterday:
What a wonderful day and Öland spirar we have had. It was fun to see you all again, after the long winter.
https://www.facebook.com/Sollidensslott/posts/1000050586827490

From today:
Tulips Estelle and Oscar
https://www.facebook.com/Sollidensslott/posts/1000096363489579

Photos from Solliden Palace's Facebook
"Between the Palace and the pavilion there are about 50,000 tulip bulbs planted. Isn't it beautiful?"
https://www.facebook.com/Sollidensslott/posts/1000909766741572

Rhododendron and Magnolia in bloom.
https://www.facebook.com/Sollidensslott/posts/1001613276671221
 
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Article about Solliden in Ölandsmagazinet
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This weekend in Solliden was "Solliden meets Italy" weekend
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Photo from Sunday, the Tulip tree at the English garden in Solliden. Photo from Solliden's Facebook
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Nice photo from Solliden
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51-year-old Carolina Thaysen has worked as the managing director of Solliden since 1st January.
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Ölandsjournalen about this year's Solliden exhibition "Karl XIV Johan – Kungen som byggde det nya Sverige" (Karl XIV Johan: The king who built a new Sweden).
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Photo from Solliden's Facebook, pergola at the Italian garden
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Photos from Solliden from Instagrams during the last days
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This year's Themed Gardens exhibition/competition was inaugurated last Sunday. The theme of this year is "The good garden". The prizes of the competition will be delivered on 11th August.
Photos from
https://www.facebook.com/Sollidensslott/posts/1036507889848426
 
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At court Instagram
Since the early 1900's, the royal family has spent their summers on Öland. In the coming week, we will publish pictures from Solliden, taken from the Bernadotte Library's photo archive.
The Solliden Palace was built as a summer residence for Sweden's future Queen Victoria and was completed in 1906. The Queen suffered from bad health and sought a place where she could escape from the big city. On Öland, she found a climate that alleviated her pains and an environment that gave her peace and quiet.
The first photo shows the Palace during the construction in 1905. Building materials were transported over Kalmarsund to Solliden's newly landed port and then transported to the building in small railway wagons. The railway tracks are seen in the foreground. The Swedish-Norwegian Union flag crowns the building.
In the second photo, Crown Prince Victoria is seen in Öland dress, photographed in the summer of 1906.
https://www.instagram.com/p/Bk7JIRDnOHN/?taken-by=kungahuset

Photos from Solliden yesterday
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Another photo from court Instagram, today:
Here you can see the Palace around 1910. Today the trees in the park around the Palace have grown up, but 100 years ago it looked different. The park has a so-called "rock garden", which was popular in the parks of the past. Photo from photo archive of the Bernadotte Library.
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The court publishes this week photos from Solliden at their Instagram. The photos are from photo archive of the Bernadotte Library.
Queen Victoria died in 1930. She left Solliden in her will to her husband Gustaf V. Gustaf V opened the Palace park to public, he had Mainau as a model.
In this photo from the end of 1940's are King Gustaf V and princess Sibylla with princesses Birgitta, Margaretha, Christina and Désirée and prince Carl Gustaf.
https://www.instagram.com/p/BlAA5henVUm/

From Solliden's Facebook
Kaffetorpet (Cottage Café)
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Solliden's Facebook, roses, roses...
https://www.facebook.com/Sollidensslott/posts/1042883072544241

On 16th July there is a guided Rose Walk at Solliden
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Interesting photo
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Art at Solliden
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Photos from Solliden during the last days
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On Sunday 5th August is the traditional Veteran and enthusiast car exhibition at Solliden. There will be about 400 vehicles to watch.
http://sollidensslott.se/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/Entusiasfordonsutställning.pdf
https://www.facebook.com/Sollidensslott/posts/1066982206800994
 
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Svensk Damtidning had at last week's issue an article about Solliden Palace. They had interviewed Leo Eriksson, the warden and palace architect of Solliden, and also the king was interviewed.
Leo Eriksson says that the walks which were at the park in 1910, are still there. So the king has made a cultural act, it is a fantastic culture treasure which has been preserved. The king is very involved in everything at Solliden. Eriksson says that the king has a three-dimensional view. As an architect, you practice it, but for him, the images only come there. We have a prestigious and creative conversation. The king also has a very healthy view on how to preserve the Palace, he is keen to maintain the simplicity of Queen Victoria's days.
Eriksson says that inside the Palace everything is quite stable, they changed a couple of years ago the palace's electric stove which had been there 60 years. But otherwise the changes are only the open fireplace in the entrance hall, and a clothes room and guest toilet in the 1950's which princess Sibylla let built in the 1950's. The royal family doesn't normally use the main entrance, they use the kitchen entrance. In addition to that, there is also a stairway to the pergola.

The king:
I have understood that the king has many ideas about the business here?
- Yes, you must have that. I have ideas about everything. I inherited this from my great-grandfather Gustaf V basically when I was born and since then I have felt more and more for it. I try to bring the inheritance to the best, it's not always that easy. There is a lot to be done here, it's staff and a garden that is always changing in some way.
When you see the royal family's beautiful white summer castle, you imagine that it should be very bright inside. So is not it really?
- No, the inside is not really what the outside shows, It's actually quite dark. That was the price Queen Victoria had to pay to get an Italian outside, less light inside. At the same time when it is very hot, it can be quite nice.

There is no wallpapers at the palace. And the room of the Haga princesses is still at the third floor, there all bedrooms are. Eriksson says, that at the room nothing has been changed, there are same furniture than then. Also Axel Munthe's is still there. In 1976 the king and queen got as wedding gift interior decoration to two rooms, the other has bright green walls and the other strong blue.
Svensk Damtidning got also the first look to the novelty of the private part of the garden, the new trellis down beside queen Victoria's old well. The meaning is that there is going to be hanging roses, and not just any roses. Eriksson tells that they are roses which king Carl Gustaf has got as a gift from queen Margrethe, very fine roses from her garden.
To walk at the palace park is an experience. Solliden has been open for public since king Gustaf V decided to open it, long before king Carl Gustaf was born. Eriksson says that it wouldn't be possible for the royal family to keep the park and garden if it wasn't open for public. But it also means that the royal family has to leave the Palace at ten o'clock every day and that they can't return before 18.00.
So when you come to Solliden, the royal family is usually there, just in the other part of the park. And there is a sure way to see if the king or crown princess is "at home", then the royal flag with either the big or small coat of arms is raised to the flagpole in front of the Palace.
 
Today and tomorrow there are the "Family Days" at Solliden.
At the program
You can meet and cuddle small animals and plant your own flower and take it home. Visit the Solliden machine park and the old playhouse of the Haga princesses is open for public. The Royal Stables has two horses and carriages in Lindallén. You can ride with a pony. Anki and Putte are performing at the park. You can try to throw clay with Lotta & Mary. There is also a tractor safari with guiding for children. You can make your own hamburger at Cottage Café and there is a fairytale moment under a hanging beech tree.
Sollidens familjedagar

Photos from Saturday
https://www.facebook.com/Sollidensslott/posts/1080434472122434
 
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Svensk Damtidning had an article about the Solliden garden and park a couple of months ago.
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Harvest Festival at Solliden 26th-30th September, from Solliden's Facebook
Program
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There was program for the children in the Friday evening with an exciting adventure.
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Photos from Friday evening.
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From Solliden Palace's Facebook
At Solliden, these lions guard Gustaf V's croquet court. The marble lions were a gift from Gustaf V to Queen Victoria.
https://www.facebook.com/Sollidensslott/photos/a.461918193974068/1128111677354713

From Solliden's Facebook
The agave was taken to the greenhouse a couple of weeks ago
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The Palace
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Solliden Palace Facebook had an own Advent Calendar, they reminisced what had happened during the year and show nice photos from the park.

1st December
When Magnolia was in bloom.
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2nd
Imagine sitting on that bench in the middle of the roses. Many of our lovely visitors tell us that they only have season cards at Solliden, in order to visit the Dutch rose garden. There they sit for a while and enjoy the beautiful flowers, scents and tranquility.
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3rd
Hasse Andersson built one of the Themed Gardens in 2018. But one evening in August, he played for us at Cottage Café's scene. The entire slope was full of expectant visitors and it was a successful evening.
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4th
Lavender and red roses on a hot summer day by the Palace.
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5th
We look back to July 14, when the Crown Princess celebrated her birthday at Solliden.¨
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6th
A picture is worth a thousand words.
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7th
Anders, Anki and Pytte planted flowers, with all children during our family days.
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8th
The bust of Queen Victoria in the English park.
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9th
Italian garden!
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10th
With small yellow-green flowers in the crown, the tulip tree lights up the entire English park.
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11th
Solliden has about 250 apple and pear trees. Here we dream back to this spring, when there was clear blue sky and sun on the blooming fruit trees.
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12th
At the Cottage Café, which dates from 1890, coffee is served from shiny copper cans with good homemade cakes.
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13th
In June we had an event inspired by Italy. They were very much appreciated by you visitors and we are pleased that the event will return in 2019.
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14th
In our enthusiast vehicle exhibition, there were several hundred fine vehicles of various kinds. The King showed two of his cars.
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15th
The Tulip Sea with about 50,000 bulbs blooms beautifully in the spring.
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16th
The water lilies form a beautiful color clique at Stenpartiet.
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17th
Green is beautiful in the English park.
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18th
The Palace seen from one of our sculptures "Tunnel" by Pål Svensson.
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19th
In the linden tree avenue we find tulips Estelle and Oscar.
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20th
Hydrangea at the Pavilion is one of our most photographed flowers / bushes in the park.
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21st
During the family days, the Royal Mews had a show for the visitors.
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22nd
The Palace park was decorated with pumpkins of all kinds during the Harvest Festival.
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23rd
Photo of The Queen from Victoria Day this summer. Today, December 23, the Queen turns 75 years. We send congratulations from Solliden and Öland.
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24th
Today on Christmas Eve, we give you four summer pictures. We wish you all a really Merry Christmas.
Solliden Facebook

Kavaljershuset, the house where Carl Philip and Madeleine and their families stay when they are in Solliden. Screen shot from queen Silvia's interview.
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Solliden Palace wishes nice weekend with this lovely photo at their Facebook.
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Themed Gardens - The Theme of the Year

For the fifth year in a row, Themed Gardens competition is organized in the Solliden Palace Park, on Gustaf V's croquet plan.
New for 2019! 8 competitor contributions on a smaller area, which compete for the Solliden's prize and the visitors' prize. The idea is to give the Palace park a new dimension and a contemporary element, as well as give visitors inspiration and new ideas.
The theme for 2019 is "Balcony life" and may be interpreted in a broad sense.
Sollidens Slott _ Aktuellt
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The spring has come to Solliden
Sollidens slott - Video _ Facebook
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At the greenhouse
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Kaffetorpet (The Cottage Café) was open for Easter on 18-22 April. The staff made it look lovely.
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Kaffetorpet will be open from now on.
The Palace Park and the Royal Gift Shop will open in connection with Öland Spirar on May 10-12.

"There is something very special about the smell of freshly cut grass. Thursday we had premiere in front of the Palace and it smelled lovely!"
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Preparations in the park continue before the season opening on May 10
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Yesterday we freed the fine marble colonies from their winter protection. The colonies ordered Queen Victoria herself on one of her trips to Capri winter 1903/1904. All colonies have different looks and Victoria chose exactly where they would be placed.
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The Palace park opened to public on Friday, and at the weekend also in Solliden was Öland spirar. Tractor tours for public and the greenhouses were shown.
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Taking everything out from the greenhouse, now it is summer.
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The pearlbush and the Palace
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Solliden by night, photo posted to its Facebook last night
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The first rose of the year at the Dutch rose garden
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New hobby-horse track for children in Solliden.
https://www.facebook.com/video.php?v=740586449725486

Roses at the Dutch Rose Garden
1. Queen of Sweden
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2. Campfire
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3. Ingrid Bergman
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The agaves today in Solliden Palace Garden
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The sculptures fill the Solliden Palace Park

The annual sculpture exhibition at Solliden Palace park has been inaugurated. Until the end of Öland's harvest festival on September 29, visitors, in addition to being able to enjoy nature in the park, will also be able to view works by some of Sweden's foremost contemporary artists.
It is the eleventh time that Barbro and Börge Kamras curate a sculpture exhibition in the Palace park.
After more than four hundred exhibitions with over two hundred artists, the Kamras couple have created a broad social network within the art world. Many of the twelve participating artists have had contact with and exhibited before, both once and twice. In the Palace park, they have selected a mixture of older and newly produced items. The oldest work, sculptor Asmund Arles Häst, who rolls, is from the 1960s. Some of the artists are pure sculptors, others have traveled between different artistic expressions and alternated between painting and sculpture.
There are three very new works in the exhibition. Peter Frie participates with the two meter high sculpture Lotus. Newly-born Markus Åkesson has contributed with a bronze sculpture, as has Ellen Ehk Åkesson, who previously exhibited at the sculpture exhibition in the castle park 2017.
Barbro says that it is a pleasure for her and Börge to design an exhibition outdoors in the free nature; that they like to sometimes be in a different environment than a gallery or art hall with white walls.
- Maybe it is nature that is the original medium of the sculpture, she says. - Nature breaks and lifts. It adds another dimension to art.
Sculpture exhibition at Solliden's Palace park 2019
Contributing artists: Asmund Arle, Olle Baertling, Ellen Ehk, Lars Englund, Peter Frie, PG Thelander, Ann Wolff, Markus Åkesson, Hans Hedberg, Maria Miesenberger, Clas Hake, Pål Svensson.
Skulpturerna fyller Sollidens slottspark - Östra Småland

Peter Frie's Lotus close to Solliden Palace
https://www.instagram.com/p/By4i-NTCApv/

Lars Englund "Theorem"
Model for the large arena sculpture in Helsingborg
https://www.instagram.com/p/BxfqnkLCwQH/
https://www.instagram.com/p/BzPitn0CVSf/

Olle Baertling's XRAI, 1972
https://www.instagram.com/p/By8TGHFCHWH/

Maria Miesenberger’s Half an Angle
https://www.instagram.com/p/ByW_bQSCwla/

Ann Wolff's CORVUS
https://www.instagram.com/p/Bx_x_8uCZZO/

Ellen Ehk's Night Tree, bronze
https://www.instagram.com/p/Bx3_UJrC5aH/

Photos at Solliden Palace's Facebook: The Tulip Tree today, wonderful
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The king and queen attend at the prize delivery of the "Themed Gardens" competition on 27th July. This year's theme is "Balcony life".
At Solliden Palace Facebook
Choose your favorite balcony!
Now you can join and vote for your Favourite Balcony in our Themed Gardens competition. Write RÖSTAT (voted) as a comment below the picture for your favorite balcony. If you add a motivation, you have the chance to win a nice prize. You can vote until July 25.
The Themed Gardens can be seen at Solliden Palace until August 31st.
Omröstning Idéträdgårdar 2019 _ Facebook

The other side of the Palace, at Solliden Palace Facebook
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Maria Miesenberger's Half an Angle bronze sculpture at the Solliden Palace Garden, Solliden's Facebook
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Mediahuset Kalmar's video
 
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Yesterday at Solliden Palace Park was a day in the signs of the roses. Rosensällskapet Sydostrosen (Rose Society) was there and gave information and kept a rose lottery.
The highlight of the day was The Scent of the Rose walks with Mischa Billing, a journey into the world of fragrance. A walk filled with discoveries, reflections and unexpected encounters with the park's many roses. There was two walks, first at 11.30 and second at 16.00, the walk took about 1,5 hours. On the walks was also one of the park's gardeners answering questions.
Wonderful roses!
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Some photos
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Photos from a blog of someone who visited Solliden in the end of June.

Among the photos is this
"The well - gift to King Carl Gustaf on his 70th birthday from the Danish court. Of course, it is limestone that has been used and there is water in the well"
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Other photos
konstenattvaramig - Sollidens slott
 
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Lots of good photos from Solliden from Instagram of one visitor.
https://www.instagram.com/p/B0VFYO4jHZB/
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Queen Victoria's bust outside the Solliden Palace Park.
https://www.instagram.com/p/B0Yf5PvCfZ-/

Svensk Damtidning's article about Solliden at last week's issue.
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Solliden from air view in 2015
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Kavaljershuset, greenhouses and kitchen garden
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Lovely photos from Solliden taken yesterday
https://www.instagram.com/p/B08y1q1oQk_/

On 8th August there was a gardening day in Solliden with renowned garden journalist Gunnel Carlson who shared her garden passion and talked about how inspiration from gardens both abroad and in Sweden gives us more exciting gardens and how to become a wiser gardener by seeing and hear how others are doing, from royals to happy amateurs.
There was a hike through the park with Gunnel, people could ask questions and share ideas with Gunnel and a lecture on what the garden means to us people and where to find inspiration for your own based on Gunnel's travels and from the book Tusen Trädgårdar. The activities were included in the regular entrance fee.
https://www.instagram.com/p/B07xvpWgf7y/

People can buy Petite Olivia's bows (which Estelle has been wearing) at the Solliden's Royal Gift Shop.
https://www.instagram.com/p/B00GAvAnNv4/

Solliden Palace Facebook
Flower wall some days ago:
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The Italian Garden
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Flowers yesterday
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Photo at Solliden Palace Facebook from this morning by Anders Johansson
"Magical autumn morning in the Palace Park!"
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Someone has noticed the detail - the little face on the wall
https://www.instagram.com/p/B2LmNlKoz5F/

There is a Harvest Festival in Solliden on 26-29 September.
https://sollidensslott.se/aktuellt/#two

Preparations already ten days ago
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And Art Walks, guided tours about the art in Solliden Palace Park on 28-29 September
https://sollidensslott.se/aktuellt/#tre

One new sculpture at the park, "Körsbär" by Hans Hedberg.
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