If you want to celebrate New Year’s Eve with something low-key, Stockholm offers a lot of great options: there are plenty of relaxing activities and celebrations to take part in, including the traditional medieval church concert or New Year’s Eve poetry performances. Or, you can go ice-skating in the city, or check out the wide variety of nightclubs, vibrant parties and firework displays. Further options are the beloved New Year’s Eve at Skansen Open-air Museum and a New Year’s concert at the Royal Opera House for example. And if you’d prefer to celebrate surrounded by the Stockholm archipelago Strömma offers a New Year’s Cruise and Djurönäset holds a New Year Gala. At the stroke of midnight, join the locals outdoors to toast with champagne while the sky over Stockholm transforms into a tapestry of dazzling colors and crackling fireworks. If you happen to find yourself in the central parts of Stockholm and want a good view of the celebrations, there are several great viewpoints. Some of the most popular are:
Skinnarviksberget
Fjällgatan
Monteliusvägen
Vita Bergen
Mosebacketerassen
Vanadislunden
During the old days, the New Year’s tradition in Sweden was to shoot towards each point of the compass: these shootings were meant to keep away evil and from there originated today’s firework celebrations at midnight.
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