Sofiero Castle
Sofiero Castle is located in Skåne in southern Sweden , 5 km north of Helsingborg .
Sofiero was built in 1864 as a summer residence for Prince Oskar and his wife Sophia of Nassau . The initially one-story building was given its present form between 1874 and 1876. The later King Oskar II gave it to his eldest grandson, Prince Gustav Adolf, as a wedding present in 1905 .
It was Gustav Adolf and his first wife Margarete who planned and designed the garden in its current form. In 1907 they planted the first rhododendron , the basis of a collection of 10,000 plants in 300 species that is unique in Europe. While various themed gardens and contemporary sculptures dominate the upper part of the site, the rhododendrons in the lower part extend through an artificially created river valley to the Øresund .
After Gustav Adolf's death in 1973, Sofiero fell to the Helsingborg municipality. Today the castle houses a museum, a restaurant and a café.
Web links
- Castle website (Swedish)
Coordinates: 56 ° 5 ′ 2 ″ N , 12 ° 39 ′ 35 ″ E