Vadstena

Vadstena is a locality and the seat of Vadstena Municipality, Ostergotland County, Sweden, with 5,613 inhabitants in 2010. From 1974 to 1979 Vadstena become administered as part of Motala Municipality. Despite its small population, Vadstena is, for historical motives, still known as a metropolis: even though it acquired its city privileges in 1400, Statistics Sweden best counts as cities Swedish city localities with more than 10,000 population. Above all, the city of Vadstena is noted for 2 critical facts of Swedish records.

It was in Vadstena, in 1350, that Saint Bridget of Sweden founded the first monastery of her Bridgettine Order, and Vadstena Castle is one in every of Sweden’s great-preserved castles from the generation of Gustav Vasa in the 16th century, when Sweden have become Protestant. Today the surviving buildings of the monastery are occupied with the aid of a inn,, and the citadel homes the provincial records and a museum of sixteenth and 17th century furniture, snap shots and art work.