The City Hall view
Across the water — the known image of Stockholm.
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Yes, and it surprises visitors more than almost anything else. Stockholm's water is clean enough to swim and fish in the middle of the city — the result of decades of sewage treatment. There are many official swimming spots: **Rålambshovsparken** here, **Smedsudden** on Södermalm, **Långholmen** with a sand beach, and **Huk** on Djurgården. The season is short, June to August, and the water is cold even at its peak, around eighteen to twenty degrees. Most have no lifeguards. The city publishes water quality for each site online.
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Rålambshovsparken lies on the southern edge of **Kungsholmen** island, on the shore of Lake Mälaren beneath the Västerbron bridge — and it is Stockholm's summer park. It was laid out in the 1930s as the district around it was built, on the **functionalist** principles then prevailing in Sweden: no symmetry and no ornament, but wide open lawns left for free use — the opposite of a compartmented Baroque garden. In summer it fills completely: families on the grass, barbecues, playgrounds, an open-air theatre giving free performances, and music festivals. At its edge is a **swimming spot in the lake** — a timber platform people swim from directly into Mälaren. From the park comes the best view of **Stockholm City Hall** across the water, the view that appears in pictures of the city. **Free and always open**, with a metro station at its edge.
Across the water — the known image of Stockholm.
Filling with families and barbecues in summer.
Rålambshovsparken, Kungsholmen, Stockholm