DESTINATION SWEDEN: Attractions & Culture

Sweden enjoys a mostly temperate climate despite its northern latitude, mainly due to the Gulf Stream. In the south of Sweden leaf-bearing trees are prolific, in the north pines and hardy birches dominate the landscape. In the mountains of northern Sweden a sub-Arctic climate predominates. North of the Arctic Circle, the sun never sets for part of each summer, and in the winter, night is unending for a corresponding period.

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DISCOVER SWEDEN: Ale's Stones, Alnarp Castle, Are Ski Area, Birka, Gothenburg, Kalmar Castle, King's Grave, Malmo, Stockholm, Stora Sjofallet National Park, Uppsala,

DISCOVER STOCKHOLM Founded circa 1250, Stockholm has long been one of Sweden's cultural, media, political, and economic centres. Its strategic location on 14 islands on the south-central east coast of Sweden at the mouth of Lake Malaren has been historically important. Stockholm is known for its beauty, its buildings and architecture, its abundant clean and open water, and its many parks ...

ARE SKI AREA Åre is an alpine ski area in Sweden, founded in 1909. It is located in Åre Municipality, Jamtland, just outside and above the village of Åre, approximately 80 km (50 mi.) from the city of Ostersund. The ski lift system is on the Åreskutan mountain, at an elevation of 1420 meters (4660 ft.); its absolute summit is not lift-served, but is reachable by snowmobile ...

DISCOVER GOTHENBURG The City of Gothenburg was founded in 1621 by King Gustavus Adolphus. It lies by the sea at the mouth of Gota Älv—the river running through the city—and is the largest seaport in the Nordic countries. Gothenburg is also home to many students, with the University of Gothenburg and Chalmers University of Technology. Volvo Cars was founded in Gothenburg in 1927 ...

DISCOVER MALMO Malmo, in the southernmost province of Scania, is the third most populous city in Sweden after Stockholm and Gothenburg. Malmo was one of the earliest and most industrialized towns of Scandinavia, but it struggled with the adaptation to post-industrialism. Since the construction of the Oresund bridge, Malmo has began a slow revival with impressive architectural developments ...

STORA SJOFALLET NATIONAL PARK Stora Sjofallet is a national park in Norrbotten County in northern Sweden. It is situated by the Norwegian border. It was declared a national park in 1909. The national park is part of the Laponian area which is a UNESCO World Heritage Site. The great waterfalls at the heart of the park were, in historic times, among the most powerful and visually striking in Europe ...

DISCOVER UPPSALA Uppsala is located about 70 km north of the capital Stockholm. Since 1164, Uppsala has been the ecclesiastical center of Sweden. Founded in 1477, Uppsala University is the oldest center of higher education in Scandinavia. Uppsala was originally located a few kilometers to the north, at a location now known as Gamla Uppsala (Old Uppsala) ...

ALE'S STONES Ale's Stonesis a megalithic monument in Scania in southern Sweden. It consists of a stone ship 67 meters long formed by 59 large boulders of sandstone, weighing up to 1.8 tonnes each. According to Scanian folklore, a legendary king called King Ale lies buried there. The carbon-14 dating system for organic remains has provided seven results at the site ...

ALNARP CASTLE Alnarp Castle is located in Alnarp, Lomma Municipality, Scania, approximately 10 km north of Malmo in southern Sweden. The original castle on the property was built in the 12th century. The present building was erected in 1862, in Dutch Renaissance style. The first mention of the castle occurred in the 12th century ...

BIRKA During the Viking Age, Birka, on the island of Bjorko (literally: Birch Island) in Sweden, was an important trading center which handled goods from Scandinavia as well as Central and Eastern Europe and the Orient. Bjorko is located in Lake Malaren, 30 kilometers West of Stockholm, in the municipality of Ekero ...

KALMAR CASTLE Kalmar Castle (Kalmar slott) is a castle in Kalmar, the province of Småland. During the twelfth century a round defensive tower was built on Kalmarsund and a harbour constructed. At the end of the thirteenth century King Magnus Ladulås had a new fortress built with a curtain wall, round corner towers and two square gatehouses surrounding the original tower ...

KING'S GRAVE The King's Grave near Kivik in the southeastern portion of the Swedish province of Skåne is what remains of an unusually grand Nordic Bronze Age double burial c. 1000 BC. The site was used as a quarry for construction materials until 1748, when two farmers discovered a tomb, with a north-south orientation, constructed with ten slabs of stone ...

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