Old Tyresö is a district of Tyresö Municipality

Tyresö Municipality

Tyresö Municipality is a municipality in Stockholm County in east central Sweden on the coast of the Baltic Sea. Its seat is located in Bollmora.Most of Tyresö Municipality lies within the Stockholm urban area.-History:...

 in Sweden

Sweden

Sweden , officially the Kingdom of Sweden , is a Nordic country on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe. Sweden borders with Norway and Finland and is connected to Denmark by a bridge-tunnel across the Öresund....

. It consists of the eastern half of the municipality, containing the Tyresö Strand and Raksta areas, the long Brevik peninsula, and the vast forest in the south.

Old Tyresö contains almost exclusively detached houses and summer cottages. The Tyresö Strand area has since mid-1990s been built with a higher density with tightly packed detached, semi-detached

Semi-detached

Semi-detached housing consists of pairs of houses built side by side as units sharing a party wall and usually in such a way that each house's layout is a mirror image of its twin...

 and terraced house

Terraced house

In architecture and city planning, a terrace house, terrace, row house, linked house or townhouse is a style of medium-density housing that originated in Great Britain in the late 17th century, where a row of identical or mirror-image houses share side walls...

s. There is a small amount of apartment buildings and commercial establishments around Strandtorget.

Tyresö Palace and Tyresö Church

Tyresö church

Tyresö church is a 17th century church in Tyresö, Sweden, belonging to the Tyresö parish. The church is located near Tyresö Palace, which was built during the same era....

 from 17th century are located in Old Tyresö as well. The forest in south contains about half of Tyresta National Park

Tyresta National Park

Tyresta National Park is a national park with a surrounding nature reserve in Sweden, located in Haninge and Tyresö municipalities in Stockholm County....

 on the Tyresö side.

Located on the Brevik peninsula, southeast of Trinntorp, is Telegrafberget

Telegrafberget, Tyresö

Telegrafberget, Tyresö has the highest point in Tyresö Municipality, 84 m above sea level. On the top of it there is a watchtower with a view all the way to central Stockholm, Dalarö and Gustavsberg...

 84 m (276 ft) above sea level, from where one has a view all the way to central Stockholm

Stockholm

Stockholm is the capital and the largest city of Sweden and constitutes the most populated urban area in Scandinavia. Stockholm is the most populous city in Sweden, with a population of 851,155 in the municipality , 1.37 million in the urban area , and around 2.1 million in the metropolitan area...

.

Residential and urban areas

The population of the residential areas typically associated with Old Tyresö, as of January 1, 2004:

• Tyresö Strand: 2,874
• East Tyresö: 2,721
• Total: 5,595 — or 14.0% of the population of Tyresö Municipality.

Old Tyresö is part of three urban areas

Urban areas in Sweden

Urban area is a common English translation of the Swedish term tätort. The official term in English, used by Statistics Sweden, is, however, locality. There are 1,940 localities in Sweden . They could be compared with census-designated places in the United States.A tätort in Sweden has a minimum of...

:

• Stockholm
  Stockholm urban area
  The Stockholm urban area is the largest and most populous of the statistical localities or urban areas in Sweden. It has no administrative function of its own, but constitutes a continuous multimunicipal built-up area, which extends into 11 municipalities in Stockholm County. It contains the...
  
  
• Raksta
• Brevik peninsula (Brevikshalvön)

External links

• Tyresö Municipality