Skånelaholm Castle, Renaissance castle in Sigtuna Municipality, Sweden.
Skånelaholm is a brick castle situated on a peninsula in Lake Fysingen with stuccoed facades and decorative window details from a late 19th-century renovation. Inside are several rooms with historical furnishings and an extensive library collection.
A religious monastery held the property from the Middle Ages until the Reformation, when it then became a royal estate. The current brick structure was built in 1641 by Andreas Gyldenklou.
The rooms display furnishings and decorative styles that reflect how people lived across different periods from the 1600s onward. Each space tells its own story about the tastes and daily routines of those who occupied it.
Visitors can tour the castle from May through September with scheduled guides who lead visitors through the rooms and collections. It helps to check when tours run beforehand, as these determine access to the interior.
The park surrounding the castle holds ancient rune stones from the Viking Age, part of one of Sweden's densest collections of such monuments. These stones mark old waterways and reveal the long history of the site before the castle was built.
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