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Frozen from November to May, Lake Åresjön makes for the perfect location to ice skate or simply gaze in awe of the world in which we live.

While serving as Sweden’s largest city and most populated urban area in Scandinavia, Stockholm’s true charm lies with the innovation bustling within the city’s over 700 year-old walls. Stockholm is one of the world’s cleanest capitals and was dubbed Europe’s first “green capital” as it cut carbon emissions by 25% per capita in under ten years and has plans to be completely free of fossil fuel use by the year 2050.

It is probably terribly cold, but that doesn’t make this photograph of a beautiful Swedish sunset any less warm.