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Drottningholm Palace
The private residence of the Swedish royal family, a UNESCO-listed 17th-century palace with a Chinese Pavilion and Baroque theatre.
8 km · about 15 min drive
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Fittja
Stockholm, Sweden · Europe
About Fittja
Fittja works well as a base: 10 minutes from Segeltorp, 8km from Drottningholm Palace.
Fittja is in Stockholm, Sweden, with about 7,500 people. You drive on the right here. The nearest town is Segeltorp, about 5 km away.
Fittja is a part of Botkyrka Municipality and the name of the Stockholm Metro station in the area. It was settled during the 1970s and consists mostly of rental apartments. As of 2008, there were 7,458 people living in Fittja; 64.7% of them were of non-Swedish origin, of whom 25.1% were non-Swedish citizens.
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Mosque is also located here.
In 1990, 55.1% of Fittja was foreign born. 84% of Fittja had a foreign background in 1997, rising to 89.9% in 2008, and 92.4% in 2024.
In its 2017 report, Police in Sweden placed the Alby/Fittja district in the most severe category of urban areas with high crime rates.
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Within an hour or so of Fittja: Drottningholm Palace (8 km), Stockholm City Hall (14 km), Gamla Stan, Stockholm (15 km), Vasa Museum (16 km).
Where is Fittja?
Fittja is in Stockholm, Sweden, about 5 km from Segeltorp.
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Quick Information
- Population
- 7,500
- Continent
- Europe
- Country
- Sweden
- Region
- Stockholm
- Timezone
- Europe/Stockholm
- Coordinates
- 59.2487, 17.8599
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Worth the detour from Fittja
8 notable places within an hour's drive.
landmark
Stockholm City Hall
The iconic waterfront building where the Nobel Prize banquet is held each December, with a golden mosaic hall and a tower offering city views.
14 km · about 25 min drive
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Gamla Stan, Stockholm
Stockholm's medieval old town on an island, a maze of cobblestone alleys, colourful facades, the Royal Palace, and the Nobel Prize Museum.
15 km · about 30 min drive
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Vasa Museum
Home to the almost fully intact 17th-century warship Vasa that sank on her maiden voyage, the most visited museum in Scandinavia.
16 km · about 30 min drive
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ABBA The Museum
An interactive museum dedicated to Sweden's most famous pop group, where visitors can virtually perform with ABBA's holographic avatars.
16 km · about 30 min drive
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Skansen Open-Air Museum
The world's first open-air museum, founded in 1891, displaying 150 historic Swedish buildings and a Nordic zoo on Djurgården island.
16 km · about 20 min drive
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Gröna Lund
Stockholm's historic waterfront amusement park on the island of Djurgården with over 30 attractions and live concerts.
16 km · about 30 min drive
castle
Gripsholm Castle
Round-towered 16th-century castle on Lake Mälaren at Mariefred, holding the Swedish national portrait collection.
36 km · about 40 min drive
When to drive here
May to September
Far northern latitude: short daylight hours outside summer make long drives harder.
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