City gate that no longer exists

Mynttorget 1, 111 28 Stockholm, Sweden

To see the “gate” here you’ll have to look down, not up. The lines of paved stones show where the Northern Gate to the city used to be in the old days. The medieval Stockholm was surrounded by the city wall, and the Northern Gate (Norreport) was one of the ways to get in through a very narrow passage closely watched by the guards.

The gate was demolished in the 17th century as it lost its strategic defense role.

Bonus fact: there was a Southern Gate (Söderport) as well, between the Old Town and today’s Slussen.

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