Stortorget

This guide to Stortorget in Stockholm follows the strange history of what claims to be Sweden's oldest Christmas market, starting with a furious stallholder in 1897 whose handmade goods were dismissed as junk. You'll hear how the market began in 1837, why the city shut it down by 1907, and what a local guild did about it in 1915. Along the way the guide takes in the square's medieval cobblestones, its gabled merchant houses, and the stone well once used to measure every distance in the city.