Hagaparken

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The lawn in front of the Copper Tents on June 6 2007, the National Day of Sweden. In the background on the other side of Brunnsviken the red brick buildings of the Albano campus of Stockholm University can be seen.

Hagaparken ("The Haga Park"), or simply Haga in Solna Municipality just north of Stockholm, Sweden is a vast and popular nature area, with large parks, lakes, woods and gardens. Within the park is Haga Castle, King Gustav III's Pavilion, the Chinese Pavilion, the Temple of the Echo, an older castle ruin and several other interesting buildings on the grounds (as the peculiar Copper Tents and also the Butterfly House). Included in the Haga Park is also the Royal Burial Ground of the Swedish Royal family (since 1922), where several members and ancestors of the present Swedish royal Bernadotte family rest.

Hagaparken has historically been favoured by Swedish royalty, especially Gustav III who founded it and developed it 1780-1797, and by the famous troubadour Carl Michael Bellman, a contemporary of Gustav III, who is much associated with Haga due to the lyrics of his compositions, poems and his writings. The song Fjäriln vingad is entirely dedicated to the park.