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Reader photo of the week: Do you know the name of this iconic Stockholm monument?

Every week, The Local invites readers to submit their pictures to our photo competition, to bring our audience together from all parts of Sweden.

Reader photo of the week: Do you know the name of this iconic Stockholm monument?
Sergels Torg in Stockholm. Photo: Sasanga Nikapitiya

This week’s winner is Sasanga Nikapitiya, who snapped the above picture of the Sergels Torg square in central Stockholm.

The glass monument seen in the picture is often referred to as the glass obelisk, but its real name is Kristallvertikalaccent (“crystal vertical accent”). Not even all Stockholmers know this, so here’s your chance to impress your friends with your knowledge of Swedish trivia.

It was designed by Edvin Öhrström in 1967.

You can submit your entries via email at [email protected] with the subject “Photo of the week”, or by submitting your photo to X using the hashtag #TheLocalSwedenPOTW – or look out for our Facebook post every week on The Local Sweden where you can submit your photo. Please tell us your name so we can credit you as the photographer, and tell us a little bit about the photo and where it was taken.

By submitting a photo, you’re giving us permission to republish it on The Local’s website, our social media and newsletters.

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PHOTO OF THE WEEK

Reader photos of the week: Celebrating the arrival of spring in Sweden

Every week, The Local invites readers to submit their pictures to our photo competition, to bring our audience together from all parts of Sweden.

Reader photos of the week: Celebrating the arrival of spring in Sweden

This week’s winner, featured above, is Aimee Clark. She told The Local she and her family hung out with lambs at Gunnes gård in Upplands Väsby. She says it’s a “free to enter Viking farm where they have free range sheep”.

We got so many good pictures this week of readers celebrating Walpurgis Day – when Swedes light bonfires to welcome the start of spring – so we included a few more honourable mentions below.

Angie De Quaye sent in this picture of a Walpurgis bonfire in Malmö. Photo: Angie de Quaye

Quirin van Os snapped this picture of the Walpurgis bonfire in Sörby, Lakene. Photo: Quirin van Os

Kira Abeln sent in this lovely picture of a Walpurgis bonfire on the seaside in Råå. Photo: Kira Abeln

Mylinda Campbell Jonasson, based in Helsingborg, writes that she always takes off her shoes the first time of the year this day. Photo: Mylinda Campbell Jonasson

You can submit your entries via email at [email protected] with the subject “Photo of the week”, or by submitting your photo to X using the hashtag #TheLocalSwedenPOTW – or look out for our Facebook post every Monday on The Local Sweden where you can submit your photo. Please tell us your name so we can credit you as the photographer, and tell us a little bit about the photo and where it was taken.

By submitting a photo, you’re giving us permission to republish it on The Local’s website, our social media and newsletters.

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