Lovön
Sign in to saveLovön is an island in the Swedish Lake Mälaren in Ekerö Municipality of Stockholm County. It was a municipality of its own until 1952, when it was joined with Ekerö Municipality. Lovön's greatest attraction is Drottningholm Palace and its many public gardens, which were built on the island in 1580.
Key facts
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- Lovön
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- Islands.image_name
- Drottningholm Palace from the Water.jpg
- Islands.image_caption
- Drottningholm Palace on Lovön
- Islands.image_map
- Lovön-map.png
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- The Island is highlighted in dark green, Stockholm urban area in pink.
- Islands.location
- Mälaren
- Islands.area_km2
- 23.22
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- Sweden
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- County
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- Stockholm
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- Municipality
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- Ekerö
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- island
- Country
- Sweden
- Located in
- Ekerö Municipality
- Area
- 23.22
- Body of water
- Mälaren
- Image
- Lovön panorama 2009.jpg
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- Lovön
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Encyclopedic overview
12 sectionsContents
- History
- Stone Age
- Nordic Bronze Age
- Iron Age
- Late Middle Ages onwards
- Contemporary
- The Church
- Interior
- Exterior
- Lovö Runestones
- References
- Sources
Lovön is an island in the Swedish Lake Mälaren in Ekerö Municipality of Stockholm County. It was a municipality of its own until 1952, when it was joined with Ekerö Municipality. Lovön's greatest attraction is Drottningholm Palace and its many public gardens, which were built on the island in 1580.
==History==
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Lovön” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
Gallery (2)
On the map
2 mapped locations