Villa Sturegården is a private residential villa on the northern edge of central Nyköping, notable as the first completed project of the architect Gunnar Asplund, built in 1913. Asplund became one of the defining figures of Scandinavian modernism, and this early work shows his starting point — a traditional Swedish timber villa that gives little indication of the spare, powerful buildings he would later produce.
The villa is not open to the public, but the exterior is visible from the street and worth a brief detour for anyone interested in architectural history. For a town of Nyköping's size, the connection to a major architect of this calibre is an unusual distinction.