List of Olof Palme memorials

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People mourning Palme where he was assassinated in Stockholm 1986 Palme Trauer 1986.jpg
People mourning Palme where he was assassinated in Stockholm 1986
Memorial plaque at the place of the assassination, reading: "On this site, the Prime Minister of Sweden, Olof Palme, was murdered on 28 February 1986" Olof Palme place of death.jpg
Memorial plaque at the place of the assassination, reading: "On this site, the Prime Minister of Sweden, Olof Palme, was murdered on 28 February 1986"
Palme's grave and monument at nearby Adolf Fredriks kyrka's cemetery Olof Palme's grave.jpg
Palme's grave and monument at nearby Adolf Fredriks kyrka's cemetery
Memorial outside the embassy of Sweden in Moscow, marking the street named after Olof Palme Olof Palme Memorial Moscow edited.jpg
Memorial outside the embassy of Sweden in Moscow, marking the street named after Olof Palme

This is a list of Olof Palme memorials: places named in honor of Olof Palme, the assassinated Prime Minister of Sweden.

CountryDescriptionNameLocation
Flag of Algeria.svg  Algeria StreetOlof Palme Street Algiers 36°45′14″N3°02′32″E / 36.753843°N 3.042327°E / 36.753843; 3.042327
Flag of Algeria.svg  Algeria GardenOlof Palme Garden Algiers 36°44′31″N3°01′52″E / 36.741810°N 3.031020°E / 36.741810; 3.031020
Flag of Argentina.svg  Argentina StreetCalle Olof Palme Buenos Aires
Flag of Austria.svg  Austria SquareOlof-Palme-Platz Traiskirchen and Wiener Neustadt
Flag of Brazil.svg  Brazil SchoolOlof Palme Rio de Janeiro
Flag of Cuba.svg  Cuba SchoolEscuela Olof Palme Havana
Flag of Denmark.svg  Denmark StreetOlof Palmes gade Copenhagen
Flag of Denmark.svg  Denmark AvenueOlof Palmes allé Århus
Flag of the Dominican Republic.svg  Dominican Republic StreetCalle Olof Palme Santo Domingo
Flag of France.svg  France StreetBoulevard Olof Palme Émerainville, Hénin-Beaumont and Pau
Flag of France.svg  France StreetRue Olof Palme Créteil, Clichy, Montpellier and Rezé
Flag of Germany.svg  Germany SquareOlof-Palme-Platz Berlin, Nuremberg and Stralsund
Flag of Germany.svg  Germany StreetOlof-Palme-Allee Bonn
Flag of Germany.svg  Germany ParkOlof-Palme-Park Cologne
Flag of Germany.svg  Germany SchoolOlof Palme Schule Hiddenhausen
Flag of Germany.svg  Germany Town hall (to be demolished) [1] Olof Palme Haus Kassel
Flag of Germany.svg  Germany StreetOlof-Palme-Damm Kiel
Flag of Germany.svg  Germany StreetOlof-Palme-Straße Augsburg, Frankfurt am Main, Leverkusen and Messestadt Riem
Flag of Greece.svg  Greece StreetOlof Palme Athens
Flag of Greece.svg  Greece ParkOlof Palme Thessaloniki
Flag of Hungary.svg  Hungary StreetOlof Palme sétány Budapest
Flag of India.svg  India RoadOlof Palme marg New Delhi
Flag of Iraq.svg  Iraq ParkHadiket Olof Palme Sulemania
Flag of Italy.svg  Italy RoadVia Olof Palme Bitonto, Cesena, Chiaravalle, Ferrara and Nuoro
Flag of Mexico.svg  Mexico CollegeColegio Olof Palme Tlalpan, Mexico City
Flag of Mozambique.svg  Mozambique StreetAvenida Olof Palme Maputo
Flag of Namibia.svg  Namibia StreetOlof Palmestraat Windhoek
Flag of Namibia.svg  Namibia SchoolOlof Palme Primary SchoolKatutura, Windhoek
Flag of the Netherlands.svg  Netherlands SchoolBasisschool Olof Palme Drunen
Flag of the Netherlands.svg  Netherlands StreetOlof Palmeplein Amsterdam
Flag of the Netherlands.svg  Netherlands StreetOlof Palmestraat Delft
Flag of the Netherlands.svg  Netherlands StreetOlof Palmelaan Beverwijk and Zoetermeer
Flag of the Netherlands.svg  Netherlands StreetS.O.J. (Sven Olof Joachim) Palmelaan Groningen
Flag of Nicaragua.svg  Nicaragua ConventionOlof Palme Convention Centre Managua
Flag of Russia.svg  Russia Street Ulitsa Ulofa Pal'me Moscow
Flag of Serbia.svg  Serbia StreetUlica Ulofa Palmea Belgrade
Flag of Spain.svg  Spain ParkOlof Palme Park Madrid
Flag of Spain.svg  Spain StreetCalle Olof Palme Alicante, Badajoz, Las Palmas, Murcia, Sabadell and Valencia
Flag of Spain.svg  Spain SquarePlaza Olof Palme Siero
Flag of Sweden.svg  Sweden StreetOlof Palmes gata Stockholm and several other Swedish cities
Flag of Sweden.svg  Sweden SquareOlof Palmes torg Örebro, Västerås and Sundsvall
Flag of Sweden.svg  Sweden SquareOlof Palmes plats Gothenburg, Jönköping, Malmö, Södertälje and Uppsala
Flag of Turkey.svg  Turkey StreetOlof Palme caddesi Kulu
Flag of Turkey.svg  Turkey ParkOlof Palme Human Rights Park İzmir
Flag of the United Kingdom.svg  United Kingdom StreetOlof Palme Grove Longton, Staffordshire, England
Flag of the United States.svg  United States College Kenyon College- Palme House Gambier, Ohio
Flag of Uruguay.svg  Uruguay SquareOlof Palme Square Montevideo, Uruguay
Flag of Vietnam.svg  Vietnam HospitalOlof Palme pediatric hospital Hanoi, Vietnam

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References

  1. Ludwig, Bastian (18 September 2019). "Einsturzgefährdetes Olof-Palme-Haus: Abriss erfolgt erst später". Hessische/Niedersächsische Allgemeine (in German). Retrieved 9 June 2020.
  2. Olof Palme Memorial Fund for International Understanding and Common Security