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Havets Hus
Havets Hus is an excellent aquarium with sea life from Gullmar, Sweden’s only true fjord, which cuts past Lysekil. Peer at such cold-water beauties as wolffish, lumpsuckers, anglerfish, cranky-looking flatfish, rays, and ethereal jellyfish, watch a magnified sharks embryo grow, wal
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Zorngården
The Zorn family house, Zorngården, is an excellent example of a wealthy artist’s residence and reflects Anders Zorn’s National Romantic aspirations (check out the Viking-influenced hall and entryway). Access to the house is by guided tour (on the hour and half-hour); you can reques
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Skurugata Nature Reserve
The Skurugata Nature Reserve, 13km northeast of Eksjö, is centred on a peculiar 800m-long fissure in the rocks. Its sides tower to 56m, yet in places the fissure is only 7m wide. In times past, the ravine was believed to harbour trolls and thieves. The nearby hill of Skuruhatt (337
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Rörstrand Fabriksbod
Rörstrand Fabriksbod is the second-oldest porcelain factory (still in operation) in Europe. There’s a vast shop selling discounted seconds and end-of-line goods, and you can even buy copies of the porcelain used at the Nobel banquets in Stockholm. The small museum (admission free)
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Hagakyrkan
The park behind the beautiful 19th-century Hagakyrkan is home to a simple yet moving monument to Swedish hero Raoul Wallenberg. A Nordic Schindler of sorts, Wallenberg is credited with saving the lives of around 15,000 Hungarian Jews during WWII. Wallenberg himself was arrested by
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Grenna Polkagriskokeri
Several sweet-makers in Gränna have kitchens where you can watch the town’s trademark red-and-white peppermint rock (polkagris) being made. However, this place, directly opposite the tourist office, is the best known, and uses an authentic 19th-century recipe that is refreshingly n
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Rörstrand Center
Rörstrand Fabriksbod is the second-oldest porcelain factory (still in operation) in Europe. There’s a vast shop selling discounted seconds and end-of-line goods, and you can even buy copies of the porcelain used at the Nobel banquets in Stockholm. The museum contains everything fro
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Haga District
The Haga district is Göteborg’s oldest suburb, dating back to 1648. A hardcore hippie hang-out in the 1960s and ‘70s, its cobbled streets and vintage buildings are now a gentrified blend of cafes, op shops and boutiques. During some summer weekends and at Christmas, store owners se
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Badhusparken
The waterfront park is the town’s most popular stop for sunbathing and a brisk swim. In winter the lake turns into Swedens largest ice-skating rink (rent your skates here; Skr160 per day) and you also can swim in the specially cut hole in the ice further south along the waterfront
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Magasin 3
Though its a bit out of the way and hours are limited, Magasin 3 is one of Stockholm’s best contemporary art galleries and well worth seeking out. Located in a dockside warehouse northwest of Kaknästornet , its six to eight annual shows often feature specially commissioned, site-sp
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Moose Garden
If you’ve heard of Sweden’s 300,000 elks but have yet to see one ‘king of the forest’ in the flesh, you can drive southwest to this moose farm just outside Östersund, home to 18 tame moose which are happy to be petted and fed bananas. The moose farm also offers on-site accommodatio
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Härjedalens Fjällmuseum
Härjedalens Fjällmuseum has displays covering the South Sami, who still herd their reindeer in from the nearby Mittådalen and Brändåsen villages, and settlement of this area by local farmers and miners. There’s a fun play area for kids that includes a secret tunnel, and the adjacen
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Vitlycke Museum
If you’re bewildered by the long-armed men, sexual imagery and goat-drawn chariots of Bohusläns prolific Bronze Age rock carvings, drop by Vitlycke Museum , which has a determined go at explaining them. Digital handheld guides can be hired for Skr40, but it’s much better to catch t
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Risfjells Sameslöjd
Part Sami-handicraft store, part museum, Risfjells Sameslöjd (opposite Vilhelminas museum) is a good place to pick up leatherwork, woodwork or a knife by husband-and-wife craftsman team Sven-Åke and Doris Risfjell. They are happy to explain the difference between North and South Sa
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Sankt Petri Kyrka
This red-brick Gothic beast is Malmö’s oldest church, built in the early 14th century. Protestant zealots whitewashed the medieval frescoes in 1555, but the original wall paintings in the Krämarekapellet have been successfully restored. There’s a magnificent altarpiece dating from
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Wadköping
The Wadköping Museum Village contains craft workshops, a bakery and period buildings - including Kungsstugan (the Kings Lodgings, a medieval house with 16th-century ceiling paintings) and Cajsa Wargs house (home of an 18th-century celebrity chef). You can wander round the village a
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Ekoparken
The vast parkland of Ladugårdsgärdet is part of the 27-sq-km Ekoparken , the world’s first national park within a city. An impressive 14km long, its combo of forest and open fields stretches far into the capital’s northern suburbs. This section of it, reached by bus 69 from Central
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Vidablick Utsiktstorn
An enterprising 17-year-old built Vidablick Utsiktstorn, a viewing tower about 5km southeast of town, from where there are great panoramas of the lake, a good cafe and a summer-only youth hostel (dorm beds from Skr150). On your way up the tower, check out the miniature reconstructi
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Bergmancenter
The Bergmancenter was inaugurated in 2013 and hosts exhibits, lectures, workshops and screenings, as well as a library and cafe. The centre can set you up with your very own Bergman guide (Skr125 for one hour), or try a Bergman bus safari (tours every other Saturday in July and Aug
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Svensk Form
Stockholm’s foremost design centre features temporary exhibitions of cutting-edge industrial design and applied arts, and a Swedish design library and archive, as well as a cool little design shop and cafe, complete with copies of in-house design magazine Form . On Wednesday evenin
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