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Modern Sweden is a constitutional monarchy, with a strongly democratic, egalitarian flair and an image of peace and neutrality. When you cross this bridge from downtown onto "Holy Ghost Island," this image is reinforced by the ability to walk through the courtyard separating the two parts of the Riksdagshuset, the Swedish parliament building. Most of the building is roughly eighty years old; the glassed-in bulge on the right seems an unexpected bit of modernity, but it actually blends in quite well. Scanned from a photographic print. © 1997 Lawrence I. Charters
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