Category: Sweden
OFFICIAL NAME: KINGDOM OF SWEDEN Blue is the omnipresent color of Sweden. Blue waters, blue skies: in the sunlight, sparkling blues; ominous blues when the skies are overcast. Even …
The Swedes, like the Danes and Norwegians, love their smorgasbords: hot and cold dishes laid out in buffet fashion. Herring is omnipresent. It comes pickled, smoked, marinated in sour …
One of the biggest in Sweden is the warship Wasa. Built in 1628, it sailed a total of three hundred meters. The ship foundered and sunk in Stockholm harbor …
Sweden is the most prosperous and the largest of the Scandinavian countries. Stockholm is the major gateway by air. Malmo is an easy boat connection with Denmark. The entire …
SIGHTS Old Town (Gamla Stan): Stortorget, Kopmansgatan; Osterlanggatan; Royal Warship Vasa (Wasavarvet); Skansen Open-Air Museum; Royal Palace (KungUga Slottet) Changing of the Guard; Apartments Royal Armoury Treasury Museum; Great …
SIGHTS Antiques market (Antikhallama); the Botanical Garden; Queen Kristinas Hunting Lodge; the Elfsborgs Fortress (it is situated on an island in the harbour inlet); Fishmar-ket (Fiskekorkan); the Fish Harbour; …
GOTEBORG Goteborg, Sweden’s second largest dty and largest port is situated on the Swedish west coast of the archipelago, a city from the 17th century surrounded by channels -a …
STOCKHOLM Stockholm is officially 730 years old, but more than 4000 years ago, there were already people living in the Stockholm area and there are many historical sites in …