European cities seem to have lots of statues compared to US cities. I thought Stockholm had quite a few unusual statues. It had lots of statues of kings, men in battles, horses, naked people, and I’m sure that those are the famous ones. I’m going to post some of what I expect are the far lesser famous statues that we passed in Stockholm. Nothing wrong with kings and horses but I thought these were more interesting.

I’m not sure about the first guy. He looks like a Hollywood producer. I just liked the statue.

Our local guide said that the Iron Boy statue, below, is Stockholm’s favorite statue. I know it was hard to find as it was behind the Royal Palace and Finnish Church but it was in a back courtyard and without our local guide, I doubt we would have found it. The Iron Boy is just under six inches high but he attracted quite a few coins and a couple of scarves to keep him warm.

Whenever we pass a statue of a naked woman that seems to be unusual anatomically and I say something about it to Vicky, she always tells me that “it was carved by a man”. So when we passed the statue in the photo below, I tapped Vicky and said, “I guess you were right all these years”.

The guy in the fourth statue is the Swedish poet Nils Ferlin. You don’t see a lot of statues of modern day poets and he only died in 1961.

The last monument was in the back garden area at the Stockholm Observatory. We found the observatory on our own and our guide hadn’t even been there. At any rate, I think this is a monument of the Vasa. Why the Vasa or any ship would be up at the observatory, I’m not sure but it certainly says ‘Sweden’.