It’s November the 10th, 1520. Stockholm is a city under shock. Over the past three days, nearly a hundred people have been executed for heresy. But the real motives were political. The events were the culmination of a struggle between two political factions: the party aiming for the independence of Sweden and the alliance between the archbishop Gustav Trolle and the king of Denmark Christian II. In the aftermath of what became known as the Stockholm Bloodbath, very few people envisioned a bright future for their city. Yet less than a decade later, Stockholm had become Sweden’s first Reformed city. In this stage we will visit places that show traces of how this happened.
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