Drottninggatan

Drottninggatan (English: Queen Street) is a major pedestrian thoroughfare in central Stockholm, stretching northward from the bridge Riksbron at Norrström through Norrmalm to Observatorielunden in Vasastaden. The street was laid out in the 1630s and 1640s as part of a new rectilinear grid plan for the surrounding district. Originally called Stora Konungsgatan ("Great King's Street"), it was renamed in honour of Queen Christina, who ruled from 1632 to 1654. Among its notable landmarks is the Strindberg Museum at number 85, where August Strindberg spent the final years of his life; several of his literary quotations are embedded in stainless steel along the pavement. The Art Nouveau bathhouse Centralbadet, designed by Wilhelm Klemming in 1904, is another architectural highlight. Together with Biblioteksgatan, Drottninggatan was among the first streets in Stockholm to be pedestrianised, in the mid-1960s, and remains the city's longest car-free street. On 7 April 2017, the street was the scene of a terrorist attack in which a hijacked truck struck pedestrians, killing five people.