Stockholm city hall is a building of the municipal Council of the city of Stockholm. It is located on the Eastern tip of the island of Kungsholm, near the North shore of Riddarfjarden and opposite the Islands of Riddarholmen and södermalm. The building houses offices and conference rooms, and state rooms and luxurious restaurant Stadshuskallaren. The town hall is considered one of the main attractions of Stockholm, as this is where the annual Nobel prize Banquet. It is worth noting that to get to the rooms is possible only as part of guided tours, but independent visitors will be able to pass only into the courtyard of the town hall.

In 1907 the city Council decided to build a new home for the town Council of Stockholm. Was held an architectural competition, the winner of which was the Ragnar Ostberg, and his main rival Karl Westman commissioned the construction of the courthouse. In the process of Estberg noticeably altering its initial project, using elements of the draft Westman, for example, a tower. The construction took twelve years, and it took almost eight million red bricks. The building was opened on June 23, 1923, exactly to chetyrekhsotletiyu from the day of the coronation of Gustav Vasa in Stockholm.

Stockholm city hall is one of the most outstanding examples of Swedish national romanticism in architecture. The unique location overlooking Ridgeford has been the inspiration for the Central motif of construction – a comparison of urban architecture and water, which is also a feature of the urban landscape of Stockholm as a whole. The style of the town hall is an exquisite example of eclectic, absorbing the massive, austere, Nordic brick building and playful elements of Eastern and Venetian architecture.

A small Park between the town hall and the shore of lake mälaren, features the work of famous sculptors. To the South-East from the town hall stands a twenty-meter-high monument, devoted to Engelbrekt Engelbrektsson, the leader of the largest popular uprising in Sweden.