Nytorget

An image of a street in Nytorget

Nytorget is an area of Södermalm, a district of Stockholm, Sweden. The name roughly translates to "New Square", and was for most of the 1600s until the early 1900s a place for open air markets and a locals hangout.

It was the location where Ankarcrona, the supposed assassin of Charles XII of Sweden was exhibited in wooden shackles so the farmers could throw stones at him before his execution in 1718, which took place in another section of Soder.

A picnic place and square in Nytorget

Greta Garbo was born in Nytorget in 1905 and lived a few blocks away. The area has been immortalized in numerous Swedish plays and novels, most notably Per Anders Fogelstrom's Mina drommars stad (The City of My Dreams).

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