15 Best Things to Do in Helsingborg (Sweden)
A port city on the Sound, Helsingborg is on Sweden’s Lund Peninsula across the water from its Danish counterpart Helsingør. Denmark is almost close enough to touch and Helsingborg was …
A port city on the Sound, Helsingborg is on Sweden’s Lund Peninsula across the water from its Danish counterpart Helsingør. Denmark is almost close enough to touch and Helsingborg was …
When this city in Östergötland County was an industrial powerhouse in the 1900s, it was known as “Little Manchester”. You’ll understand why when you visit the Industrilandskapet, a whole quarter …
Couched in a landscape of infinite lakes , Växjö is a small, forward-thinking city in the Småland Province. In this beautiful setting, Växjö has taken the mantle as Sweden’s greenest …
Tied to Copenhagen by the Öresund Bridge, Malmö was Danish until the 16th century. Its role as a Hanseatic trading port in medieval times gives its architecture a Dutch feel …
In medieval times Lund was the seat of an archbishopric that held sway over all of the Nordic countries. And speaking to that religious power is the amazing cathedral, the …
Southwest of Stockholm is the city of Södertälje, close enough to the capital to be called a suburb and served by the Stockholm commuter rail network. Known for being very …
Born in medieval times on the Svartån River, Västerås has spent the last few hundred years inching down to the scenic shore of Lake Mälaren. New neighbourhoods are being built …
Sweden’s fourth city has been the country’s intellectual and ecclesiastical centre since medieval times. Uppsala University is the oldest institution of higher learning in the country, and among its long …
The Norrland city of Gävle is by no means large but punches above its weight for museums, family days out, parks and cultural venues. If you hurry in December you …
Borås is in West Sweden, 45 minutes inland from Gothenburg. In the 19th and 20th centuries Borås was the country’s big textiles manufacturer and that legacy is maintained at the …