Five of Stockholm's parks were awarded the international QPI Urban Quiet Park Award on August 18, 2022

Judarskogen: The green areas of our cities are important for both recreation and recovery as well as climate adaptation and biological diversity. Cities are also often more or less noisy and there is a need for places that can offer a measure of peace and quiet and contact with nature.

Stockholm is in many ways a unique city, not least for all the parks and nature reserves that are spread throughout the city. In Stockholm, the sound environment in various green areas has also been evaluated since 1990, and starting in 2015, a project called Guide to Silence has identified quiet places in both nature reserves and smaller parks.

This long-term work with parks, nature reserves and the city's sound environment has led to a total of five of Stockholm's parks being nominated, evaluated and now awarded the international Urban Quiet Park Award.

Quiet Park International is a non-profit organization that works to protect, preserve and raise awareness of quiet and peaceful places around the world. Four parks have so far been awarded the Urban Quiet Parks Award: