New month and a new castle to visit. It is February and we visited Ekebyhov Slott which is situated on Ekerö, an island in Mälaren. In the early 1600s there was a stone castle here, but hardly anything is left from the original castle. It was replaced by this wooden castle and that started to be built in 1661 and completed 1701. It is now owned by the municipality of Ekerö and hosts a café. There is also a lot of associations that has their activities and other gatherings here with conferences and courses. We had a very nice cup of tea with home baked goodies at a very fair price.
Afterwards we drove further out on Ekerö to try to find Bjorn Ironsides Buriel Mound, but it was situated on private property so we didn’t get to see it.
We did, however, make a quick stop and walk around the Munsö Church, which was really pretty. The church is one of eight still existing circular churches in Sweden and origins back from 1185.
