We started our last day in Stockholm with a visit to City Hall. Normally, beaurocracy is not on our must-see list, but a very special event is hosted here every year - the Nobel dinner that follows the medal award ceremony.
2018
1300 attendees
Each recipient may bring an entourage of 14, so space is tight. Each gets 50cm of space at their table (approx 20in, a current airline couch seat is 18.5in ... no first class bumps available).
The next stop was the city council meeting room. It's ceiling was built to mimic a Viking Long House including painted open-sky panels - spectacular.
Also interesting was the nearly 50-50 mix of men and women among its 101 member. Not by fiat, just an enlightened people.
City Hall also hosts an extraordinary painted and gold mosaic work of art called
Gyllene Sale or Golden Wall (Wiki).
The piece celebrates Stockholm as the uniting crossroad between the eastern and western worlds by depicting scenes of each (closeups follow).
(for scale)
