At the Copper Tents of Haga Park with Mats and Yiannis

The entrance


The long and winding road


The Coper Tents



The Echoes Pavilion



The Butterfly House just behind the Cooper Tents is a tropical jungle in snow


Palm Trees dying in the snow


"King Gustav III of Sweden commissioned the French architect Louis Jean Desprez to build "The Copper Tents" to house his honor guard and their hourses. These lovely and very unique structures were erected between 1787- 1790 in Haga Park, which is located just 10 minutes from downtown Stockholm.

King Gustav had a grand vision of fashioning Haga Park after the parks of royal England. He wanted Haga to be less strict and formal unlike the park at Drottningholm, which is very French in design and lay-out.

Gustav III was, however, extremly impressed by the French court wanted to re-create his own Versailles in Haga Castle just a stone throw from The Copper Tents, is all that is left of his grand plan which unfortunatly, was aborted by his assassination in 1792, at the opera house in Stockholm. at the Haga Park Museum you can view a scale model of the king's vision for Haga.

The Silvertent, just next door, was unfortunatly completly destroyed by a fire in 1953. The facade of the tent was rebuilt in 1964. In 1977, the stable yard behind the facade, was turned into a covered tent room and became known as the Silver Tent." (Source)