Salsta Castle was erected in the French Baroque style for Nils Bielke the Younger, 1st Count Bielke af Åkerö and Imperial Count of Torgelow. Today, the stately home in Uppsala, Sweden, is a country house that has belonged to some of the most influential noble families in Sweden, including Oxenstierna, Bielke and Brahe.
Mathias Spieler designed and constructed the palace after an earlier design by Nicodemus Tessin the Elder, incorporating elements from an earlier Renaissance castle. Salsta has around 35 rooms, decorated in 1682, and features fabric-stretched ceilings with paintings in shades of gray, imitating stucco.
The count's bedchamber features an alcove decorated with gilded columns. The building is constructed of stone and brick on two floors in an open square, and includes a high plinth containing arched rooms for the kitchen and other economy spaces.
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Written by Nik Frost
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