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COUNTRY INFO
General
Tourism to Sweden is well established with the capital
Stockholm and its second largest city Gothenburg popular destinations. Northern
Sweden is famous for winter sports even though the highest mountain in the
country Kebnekaise is only 2111 metres high. The downhill ski resorts at Are and
Vemdalen are very popular and there are numerous cross country skiing resorts -
Vasaloppet every March feature the world's longest cross country ski race
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Tourism to Sweden is well established with the capital
Stockholm and its second largest city Gothenburg popular destinations. Northern
Sweden is famous for winter sports even though the highest mountain in the
country...
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Travel Activities
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The Stockholm Archipelago is Sweden’s largest archipelago and
one of the largest in the Baltic Sea. In the past, the archipelago’s tiny
population consisted mostly of fishermen. As it has morphed into a popular
holiday...
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Kalmar Castle is a legendary Swedish landmark whose history
can be traced to as far as 800 years. It was originally built as protection
against pirates and other enemies coming in from the sea. Tagged as “The Key to
the...
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For those who fancy living in a museum, Gamla Stan in
Stockholm, Sweden is the place to go to. Dating back to the 13th century, this
is where Stockholm was founded. Literally meaning “The Old City”, Gamla Stan
primarily...
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The Royal Family of Sweden’s permanent residence,
Drottningholm Palace, is one of the country’s top tourist destinations. Built in
the late 16th century by Nicodemus Tessin, it is the most well preserved royal
castle in...
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Blogs & Videos
Blogs
The Laponian Area
Brief description: The Arctic Circle region of northern Sweden is the home of the Saami people. It is the biggest and one of the last places with an ancestral way of life based on the seasonal movement of livestock. Every
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The Church Village of Gammelstad, Luleå
Brief description: Gammelstad, at the head of the Gulf of Bothnia, is the best- preserved example of a unique kind of town found in northern Scandinavia -- the church town. Its 424 wooden houses crowded around the early 15th-century stone
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Hanseatic Town of Visby
Brief description: A former Viking site on the island of Gotland, Visby was the main centre of the Hanseatic League of the Baltic from the 12th to the 14th century. Its 13th-century ramparts and more than 200 warehouses and trading
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