Kungsträdgården

This guide to Kungsträdgården in Stockholm opens on a May morning in 1971, when the city arrived with chainsaws and police to fell old elm trees for a new subway entrance, and nearly a thousand Stockholmers showed up to stop them. You'll hear how protesters climbed the trees, how word spread through the city within hours, and how a square that spent centuries as walled royal turf became the open-air living room it is today. It follows the park's later additions, from the winter ice rink to the cherry trees planted with Japan in 1998.