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Den Gyldene Freden opened in Stockholm's old town in 1722, named for the peace that ended the Great Northern War, and has served from the same vaulted cellars ever since - long enough to be cited as the oldest restaurant still trading in its original premises. The Swedish Academy has lunched there on Thursdays for generations.

A solar-cooled permanent wing opened beside Sweden's seasonal ICEHOTEL, letting guests sleep on ice even through the Arctic's 100 days of continuous summer daylight.

Sweden's largest public-private hospital project opens its first phase in Solna after Skanska modelled the entire building in BIM before construction began.

To clear ground for LKAB's expanding Kiruna iron ore mine, contractor PEAB moved the century-old Hjalmar Lundbohmsgården villa across town - dismantled into three sections, because its later extensions made moving it whole impractical.

Skanska's CityGate tower, the tallest office building in the Nordic region, was completed in Gothenburg in autumn 2022 as part of the city's long-term development plan.

The Nobel Assembly at Karolinska Institutet announces the 2026 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine from Wallenbergsalen in the Nobel Forum, opening Nobel week. The announcement is broadcast live and the laureates are usually telephoned only minutes beforehand.

The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences announces the 2026 Nobel Prize in Physics from its Session Hall at Frescati in Stockholm. The prize may be split between up to three laureates.

The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences announces the 2026 Nobel Prize in Chemistry from its Session Hall at Frescati in Stockholm, a day after the physics prize.

The Swedish Academy announces the 2026 Nobel Prize in Literature from the Börssalen in Stockholm's old stock exchange, where its permanent secretary opens the doors to say the name aloud.

The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences announces the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel, closing the 2026 announcement season. It is the only one of the six not established by Alfred Nobel's will.

Spotify's annual Wrapped report closes the streaming year, and on 20 September 2026 Polymarket already treated it as settled: Bad Bunny was priced at 86%, with Drake at 7% and Taylor Swift at 3%. Wrapped has landed in the first week of December in recent years.

A 13-nation collaboration near Lund, Sweden is finishing a roughly €3 billion (about $3.5 billion) neutron research facility built around one of the world's most powerful linear particle accelerators.

Sweden's roughly $4.5BN Förbifart Stockholm bypass tunnel, originally due in 2018, is now expected to open by 2030 after more than a decade of delays.