Salsta Castle
| Salsta Castle | |
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| Salsta, Uppsala Municipality, Uppsala County, Sweden | |
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| Coordinates | 60°02′43″N 17°44′23″E / 60.04528°N 17.73972°E |
| Type | Country house |
| Site information | |
| Owner | Swedish state |
| Open to the public | Guided summer tours by appointment |
| Site history | |
| Built by | Mathias Spieler |
Salsta Castle (Swedish: Salsta slott) is a country house in
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View from the park -
The blue empire room
Architecture
Salsta is built of stone and brick on two floors in an open square, except for the basement floor. The building has a lower ground floor with two projecting corner pavilions and two independent wings facing the garden side . The building has around 35 rooms. The high plinth contains beautifully arched rooms for the kitchen and other economy spaces . There is also a hall in direct contact with the garden.[7]
The ground floor was decorated in 1682, but was furnished four years later. There is a series of fabric-stretched ceilings with paintings in shades of gray, imitating stucco . In the count's bedchamber, the alcove is decorated with gilded columns.
See also
- List of castles in Sweden
References
- ^ Mats Åmark (1967). A Guide to Uppsala Cathedral. Almqvist & Wiksells. p. 6.
- ^ "Salsta Castle". Destination Uppsala. Retrieved 24 April 2023.
- ^ "Salsta Castle, Vattholma, Sweden - SpottingHistory.com". www.spottinghistory.com. Retrieved 24 April 2023.
- ^ "Salsta". Nordisk familjebok (in Swedish). Project Runeberg. 1916. p. 511.
- Statens fastighetsverk. Archived from the originalon 14 July 2014. Retrieved 25 April 2023.
- ISBN 91-0-010577-5.
- ^ "Kringla - SALSTA SLOTT". Kringla (in Swedish). Retrieved 2023-07-27.
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