Cities and counties in Sweden. Tourist cities in Sweden
Gothenburg is considered a much better and warmer city than Stockholm and, of course, this place is a must visit for a traveler.
International and domestic flights in Gothenburg come to Landvetter Airport, which is located about 16 miles from the city.
From Landvetter Airport, buses run to the city every 15 minutes.
You can get to Gothenburg by train from all major cities in Sweden. All trains, international or domestic, come to central station in Drottningtorget.
Gothenburg is connected to the rest of Sweden by two major bus routes- E6 from Malmö and Helsingborg, and E4 from Stockholm. Journeys from Malmö and Helsingborg last 3.5 and 4.5 hours, also up to 8 hours from the capital.
Ferries are one of the most popular and convenient ways to get to Gothenburg and also quite economical if you are traveling from Denmark or from Swedish ports.
Gothenburg is a great city for hiking. His Cultural Center, known as Gotaplatsen, is famous for the Poseidon Fountain, Carl Milles, which is the city's main attraction.
The area around the center is home to one of Gothenburg's most popular museums and tourist attractions. Another place that deserves a leisurely evening walk is Kungsportsavenyn (one of the busiest places in the city).
For a more extravagant view of Gothenburg, visit the fish auction along the harbour. Nearby are the Fish Church and fish market, one of the largest in Scandinavia.
Among the most popular tourist attractions in Sweden is the Liseberg Amusement Park, which is the best in Scandinavia and also one of the best in the world.
One of the best art museums in the city is the Geteborgs Konstmuseum. Here are the works of the best artists of Europe, both classical and modern.
Malmö
The third largest city in Sweden, Malmö is the capital of Skene and one of the most charming cities Sweden.
Although this is important industrial centre and a major transportation hub, Malmö has managed to retain much of its medieval charm. Its markets and streets, largely pedestrianized, are dotted with old church buildings and residences.
Malmo has its international Airport near Skurup, about 31 km east of the city. The airport is connected to a number of destinations throughout Europe. From the airport, there regular buses and trains to the city.
Central railway station Malmö is the terminal of all trains going to the city from Sweden and abroad. There are daily trains from Stockholm and Gothenburg as well regular flights from continental Europe.
There are also buses that link Malmö and Copenhagen. Buses run daily between important Swedish cities, including Stockholm and Gothenburg; all buses stop near the central railway station.
There are a number of ferry services that provide regular services from Copenhagen and other Danish and Swedish ports.
To get a better look at it a beautiful city, you are taking walking tour by Malmö.
The castle in Malmö was built on the site of a fortress. It was erected in 1536 by the Danish king Christian III and includes two fortresses covered with grass and ramparts.
Stortorget - huge area in the city center, is one of the the best places where you can start your journey. Popular attractions here are St Petri Kyrka churches, Radhus, the main shopping area Sedergatan. Also worth a visit is Lilla Torget, a colorful place where you can go shopping, visit a local pub or go gray in a cafe.
Ribersborg for beach lovers. Located 15 minutes walk from the city center.
Stockholm
And the most Big city in the country. Stockholm has almost everything you could want from a trip. beautiful parks and gardens, old buildings and museums, vibrant nightlife and good restaurants, huge shopping centers and some of the most popular attractions in Sweden.
, Arlanda International, is the main gateway to Sweden. The airport has 4 terminals and is located 43 km north of the city.
Stockholm is an important port for a number of large ships that sail along the Baltic Sea. Most large ships to Stadsgården, Turku and Helsinki (in Finland). Regular ferries also come from Gotland.
Stockholm is the center of an extensive rail network that reaches almost every corner of the country.
Stockholm is located near the crossroads of two main bus ports - E4 in the south and E3 in the west. All buses stop at the Central Stationen or city terminal.
This city is a mixture of old and new. Gamla Stan, or Old Town, is full of narrow cobbled lanes that are lined with old baroque buildings. It is also a city of museums and parks. Culture lovers will find their fill here with tours of the 50 museums, and nature lovers can soak up the sun and the many green lawns.
A favorite of most tourists is Drottningholm, which has been dubbed "Sweden's Versailles".
Kungliga Slottet, or Royal Palace, encompasses the treasury and arsenal, and has since been part of Stockholm's Old Town (Gamla Stan).
Skansen is huge complex, which includes carnivals, a zoo, an aquarium, a theater, a tobacco museum and various eateries, but pride of place belongs to the 150 ethnic-style buildings that spread around the complex.
Sweden is a very long country. In terms of area, it ranks fifth among the countries of all of Europe, and most of its territory is located in the sparsely inhabited north. Distances between cities are quite large, but transport system well developed, which facilitates route planning. The climate and nature in the north and in the south are very different.
Stockholm and surroundings
In the east is the capital of Sweden -. Incredible beautiful city on the islands, in which most of the country's attractions are concentrated. Tourists can enjoy palaces, museums, parks, restaurants, design hotels and shopping. From Stockholm you can make day trips, for example, to an old university town or on a boat to skerries.
Gothenburg and surroundings
In the west is the second largest city in Sweden - which is often called the cultural capital. The port city of Gothenburg has always been a city of merchants, which is reflected in its architecture. Worth a visit there Botanical Garden, a design museum and a new opera house. Summer holidays are very popular. west coast, replete with skerries and famous for its seafood.
Åre and northern Sweden
Northern Sweden also has something to offer tourists. In until late spring you can ski. In summer in Östersund you can admire mountain waterfalls and study the life of indigenous tribes - the Saami. - cultural capital Europe 2014 - lures guests with festivals. Even further north - in the Swedish Lapland, it is advised to go in the fall to admire the colors northern nature or in early spring to watch the northern lights.
Gotland and Öland
Sweden's largest islands in the Baltic Sea are unique natural beauties. On Gotland is the only surviving in the country medieval city Visby, which was part of the Hanseatic Trade Union. In Visby, with its narrow streets and rose-covered gates, there are many romantic hotels and cozy restaurants. You can move around the island by bike, stopping at churches where Russian frescoes have been preserved. The best time to visit Öland is in the summer. There is also a summer royal residence and many ancient burials.
Malmö and south of Sweden
The third largest city in Sweden - - is located in the south. It is considered the most multinational and youth city. Go to Malmö for nightlife. Of the few attractions can be called the Museum of Modern Art. Skone - South Region, where Malmö is located, belonged to Denmark for a long time, so there are a lot of castles of Danish aristocrats there. Some operate as museums, and some as hotels, where you can stay in the master bedroom and feel like a baron for one night.
Central Sweden
Those who want to see the real Sweden should definitely go to its outback, for example, to Karlstad. There, in the land of rivers and lakes, you need to look for the world of Astrid Lindgren's heroes. A cruise along the Iota Canal from Stockholm to Gothenburg is popular with wealthy tourists. The small boat sails slowly through countless locks, and you can admire the peaceful countryside scenery with traditional red Swedish houses.
The capital of the kingdom, and concurrently - the largest city in Scandinavia, lies on 14 islands; where the waters of Lake Mälaren and the bay meet Baltic Sea. Stockholm does not leave anyone indifferent. The capital impresses with how harmoniously the rhythm of life of the metropolis is combined with closeness to nature, observance of the long-established order - with innovations, and not a small scale - with a comfortable environment and coziness. It is thanks to such pleasant contrasts that Stockholm from year to year occupies the top positions in the rankings of the most livable megacities in the world.
Over eight centuries of history, Stockholm has accumulated rich and versatile baggage, so that each of its guests takes home their favorite picture. Someone for a long time remembers walking along the narrow cobbled streets of the Old City, someone - the view of the islands, the spiers of churches and the roofs of houses from viewing platforms in the Södermalm area, someone - carved into the rock and intricately designed metro stations, and someone - cherry blossoms in the Kungstradgorden garden. And then they argue for a long time what should not be missed next time: to take a picture with the guards at Royal Palace- or with the corteges of laureates who came to the Nobel Prize? to admire the ancient ship "Vasa" raised from the bottom of the sea? look at original costumes and instruments at the ABBA Museum of Stockholmers? to go on a tour in the footsteps of the heroes of Stieg Larsson? or finally calculate the very roof on which Astrid Lindgren settled Carlson? Perhaps only one question is not discussed: is it worth returning. The answer is obvious. Love for Stockholm is immediate and forever.
Gothenburg
The second city of the country and its largest port, laid down by King Gustav II Adolf at the beginning of the 17th century so as to break through Sweden's access to the North Sea - bypassing the Baltic straits, which were controlled by rival Denmark. Since then, Gothenburg has been diligent No. 2 in the kingdom: it never challenged the primacy of the capital, but constantly made sure that it was not written off as a sleepy province. He maintains his posture with wide avenues and stone-encased canals, roaring fountains, tinkling trams, strictly ensuring that he has plenty of ambitious architecture in the streets, and smart chefs in trendy restaurants, and peppy students in university auditoriums (it doesn’t matter, who they will become later - academicians and Nobel laureates or popular video bloggers, like PewDiePie from Gothenburg). It becomes especially good here in summer, when flowers bloom in two botanical gardens; in the Liseberg amusement park, they accelerate at full speed roller coaster, and a warm breeze walks along the decks of ships in maritime museum maritiman. But even in the cold season, Gothenburg has something to surprise - for example, real sharks and humid tropics in the Natural Science Museum Universeum, Scandinavian painting at the local Art Museum or cutting-edge productions at the modernist Harbor Opera.
Malmö
Sweden's southern gate - right across the strait lies Copenhagen. For half of its history, Malmö belonged to the Danes, until in the middle of the 17th century, together with the entire province of Skåne, it came under the rule of the Swedish crown. The third city of the country has not outlived the habit of good neighborliness with Denmark. It has taken root especially since the Øresund Bridge stretched across the strait from the southern outskirts of Malmö in 2000 and the road to the center of the Danish capital was reduced to forty minutes by train or car.
Time in the capital of Skåne flies unnoticed: there are more than enough temptations for the traveler. You can take a walk in the fabulous Old Town, where part of the buildings have been preserved since Danish times, and landscape parks have been laid out on the site of the former fortifications. You can stock up on a special card in information center and look for addresses familiar from the legendary series "The Bridge". You can head to Möllevongen, one of the most cosmopolitan quarters in all of Sweden, where market trade is in full swing, and Kurdish kebab and Indian curry houses side by side with Vietnamese noodles and Balkan cafes. You can drive the ball in a football box, which was rebuilt in his native region of Rusengård by a native of Malmö Zlatan Ibrahimovic. Finally, you can spend the whole day on the shores of Øresund: in the ultra-modern Western Harbor, a new symbol of the city, the Rotating Torso Tower, is screwed into the sky with a corkscrew, and a chain of postcard city beaches stretches from here with views of the strait, the bridge and Copenhagen on the horizon.
Uppsala
The life of Uppsala is subject to the schedule of the oldest university in the kingdom, in whose students or teachers every third local. Until recently, all local students had to be members of one of the compatriots, with the help of which they received places in a hostel, dined, competed, performed in amateur performances and - an important benefit! - buy booze at a discount. Now, compulsory membership in university communities has been canceled, although you can still get lunch here in the student canteen in the interiors of the times of Carl Linnaeus - the great Swedish naturalist studied and taught in Uppsala. All local attractions are somehow connected with the university - the Gustavianum Museum with an anatomical theater, the Carolina Rediviva library, which stores ancient manuscripts, a large botanical garden with greenhouses, and a smaller apothecary garden named after the same Linnaeus. Two spiers rise above the university buildings gothic cathedral- 118 meters, the highest in Scandinavia. In 1273, the chair of the archbishops of Sweden was transferred here, through the efforts of which the university arose in 1477 (the previous church residence, Old Uppsala, now lies beyond the northern outskirts - only the ancient settlement with burial mounds of ancient kings has been preserved there). From Stockholm to Uppsala is only an hour's journey - an ideal destination for a day trip from the capital.
Lund
The most important church center in the past and a cute university city in the present - Uppsala's southern Swedish counterpart and eternal rival. At the beginning of the 12th century, the chair of the only Catholic archbishop in Scandinavia was located in Lund. Just at that time, a massive basilica in the Romanesque style was erected here. Most of of the current temple, including two severe pointed towers, were built not in the Middle Ages, but only a little over a century ago - which does not diminish the impression. The local university, founded in 1666, traces its history back to the Franciscan school of the 15th century. Today, it occupies almost the entire Lund: every second local resident is connected with faculties and institutes - not Small town, and a large campus, medieval streets and the squares of which come to life as soon as classes end. Several central blocks of Lund are occupied by a museum under open sky- Culturen. In fact, this is a restored piece of the Old Town, to which house exhibits from all over the province of Skåne were additionally brought, turning Kulturen into an entertaining and visual exhibition. folk life Southern Sweden. It is especially convenient to look into Lund from Malmö: they are separated by only 10-15 minutes by train.
Squid
Swedish city, which without fail finds its way into all high school history textbooks - thanks to the treaty concluded here in 1397 and uniting the three Scandinavian crowns in the Kalmar Union under the rule of Denmark. However, this alliance lasted only a little more than a century, and in the subsequent struggle for dominance in the Baltic, Kalmar became key point and major prize. The Swedish kings who gained the upper hand spared no expense to rebuild in the Renaissance fashion the local castle and the main city center lined with a ruler. Since the end of the 17th century, the turbulent events of history have bypassed Kalmar, and its harmonious ensemble with a solemn cathedral on main square remained a monument to the Swedish Empire during the heyday of its power - in every possible way worthy of a stop.
Year of foundation: around 1100
Population: 39.000
More: www.kalmar.com
Visby
The port city on the island of Gotland always lay at the crossroads sea routes Baltics. Visby reached the pinnacle of power and wealth in the first half of the 14th century as part of the Hanseatic League, which controlled all trade in Northern Europe from London to Veliky Novgorod. Then the city was surrounded by powerful walls with fifty towers, 36 of which have survived to this day, and monumental temples and multi-storey warehouses grew behind the walls. In 1361, the Danish king Valdemar IV captured and ravaged Visby, after which the city became for a long time an arena of struggle between the Danes, Hanseatics, pirates and Teutonic knights. It all ended by the beginning of the 16th century, when, after another attack, services continued only in the Cathedral of St. Mary, and the remaining fifteen temples of the city - this is more than it was in Stockholm at that time - began to be pulled to stone (some of them have survived to this day in ruins ). Several centuries of peace have benefited Visby: it has completely preserved its medieval plan historical center, so that in our time it was included in the UNESCO World Heritage List, and thanks to the mild climate of Gotland, the city has become a popular summer resort. The streets were flooded with artists in search of inspiration - a big fan of Gotland, Ingmar Bergman, filmed his film "Touch" here, and the Japanese Hayao Miyazaki did sketches for "Kiki the Witch's Delivery Service". The main pandemonium happens in August, when reenactors from all over the country come to Visby for Medieval Week to dress up in costumes and armor, fight, dance, craft and cook, as in the time of King Valdemar.
Ystad
The Hanseatic town in the southeast of the Skåne province has retained its medieval texture - cobbled streets with half-timbered pastel-colored houses, an impressive brick church of St. Mary and a former Franciscan monastery with a cozy garden. And all this in the most pastoral part of the southern Swedish province - surrounded by idyllic farms and deserted beaches. Thanks to this, Ystad has turned into a cinema center: a large film studio, a film school work here, and films and series are regularly filmed. For the entertainment of the visiting public, a small Film Museum operates and regular excursions are held to places associated with the name of Commissioner Kurt Wallander - the hero of the popular series, the writer Henning Mankel, who invented it, registered in Ystad. The townspeople themselves prefer to go to the oldest operating cinema in the Kingdom of Scala and to the local drama theater - charming in its puppet scale. The theater stands aside from the center, a step away from the port, from where every day large ferries leave for Poland and the Danish island of Bornholm.
Kiruna
The capital of the Swedish Arctic appeared on the maps thanks to the mines where iron ore is mined. Thanks to the mines, here at the beginning of the 20th century railway and in the midst of the wild subarctic nature a city has grown. Thanks to the mines - or rather, in order not to fall into them - Kiruna will have to move a few kilometers to the east in the coming years. The government has already approved a large-scale program city transfer spanning several decades. especially valuable historical Buildings(first of all, amazing wooden church) will move entirely, the rest will be destroyed and rebuilt in a new place. Of course, not only miners, but also tourists travel to the Swedish north. In winter - look at northern lights and ride on dog sledding and snowmobiles, in summer - admire the midnight sun, go hiking national park Abisko or climb Mount Kebnekaise, the most high peak kingdoms. In 1990, in the village of Yukkasjärvi, neighboring Kiruna, the main attraction of these places was opened - Icehotel. A giant igloo with a hundred rooms, with its own restaurant, bar and ceremonial chapel, is built from blocks of ice every season; Recently, thanks to the use of solar energy, part of the hotel is open all year round. There is no end to those who want to spend the night on ice beds (skins and warm sleeping bags are included).
Sigtuna
The oldest city of the kingdom is mentioned in chronicles as early as the reign of Eric the Victorious at the end of the 10th century. Judging by the number of runestones on the streets of Sigtuna and its environs, by the impressive ruins of two temples of the XII century, and by the graceful brick patterns on the facade of the Church of St. Mary, in those days it was the richest and most influential city in Central Sweden. But in the XIII century, the rulers and merchants moved to Stockholm, and Sigtuna fell into timelessness, turning into a quiet place by our time. provincial town on the shore of the lake - with a picturesque embankment, the cutest wooden town hall and souvenir shops on an undersized main street. In addition, Sigtuna is ideally located to include in any a tourist route in the vicinity of the capital, - exactly halfway from Stockholm to Uppsala and only ten kilometers from Arlanda, the country's largest airport.
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