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Husaby Kyrka & St Sigfrid’s Well
Husaby (around 15km east of Lidköping) is inextricably linked to Sweden’s history. King Olof Skötkonung, the country’s first Christian king, was converted and baptised here by the English missionary Sigfrid in 1008. Olof’s royal dunking took place at St Sigfrid’s Well, near Husaby
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Maritiman
Near the opera house, the world’s largest floating ship museum is made up of 20 historical crafts, including fishing boats, a light vessel and a firefighter, all linked by walkways. Shin down into the 69m-long submarine Nordkaparen for a glimpse into underwater warfare. Inside the
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Fotografiska
A chic, upmarket photography museum, Fotografiska is a must for shutterbugs. Its temporary exhibitions are huge, interestingly chosen and well presented; examples have included a Robert Mapplethorpe retrospective and portraits by indie filmmaker Gus Van Sant. Recently the museum sh
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Storkyrkan
The one-time venue for royal weddings and coronations, Storkyrkan is both Stockholm’s oldest building (consecrated in 1306) and its cathedral. Behind a baroque facade, the Gothic-baroque interior includes extravagant royal-box pews designed by Nicodemus Tessin the Younger, as well
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Skogskyrkogården
One of Stockholm’s more unusual attractions, Skogskyrkogården (the Woodland Cemetery) is an arrestingly beautiful graveyard set in soothing pine woodland. Designed by the great Erik Gunnar Asplund and Sigurd Lewerentz, it’s on the Unesco World Heritage list and famed for its functi
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Dalarnas Museum
Dalarnas Museum is a super introduction to Swedish folk art, music and costumes. Its kid-friendly, too, with the opposite of the usual Do not touch signs (these say Be curious! Please touch!). Selma Lagerlöf’s study is preserved here, and there are ever-changing art and craft exhib
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Tensta Konsthall
Giving outer-suburban Tensta some serious artistic cred, glocal art gallery Tensta Konsthall features a Day of the Triffids –style foyer by design divas Front and a must-see/hear design shop stocked with fresh new talent. Oh, and then there’s the art – four to six major annual exhi
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Hallwylska Museet
A private palace completed in 1898, Hallwylska Museet was once home to compulsive hoarder Wilhelmina von Hallwyl, who collected items as diverse as kitchen utensils, Chinese pottery, 17th-century paintings, silverware, sculpture and her children’s teeth. In 1920 she and her husband
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Ljungdalen
If you have your own transport, it’s worth the haul to the village of Ljungdalen, about 40km north of Funäsdalen along an unimproved, mostly gravel road. It’s slow going, but the scenery is spectacular; it looks like a glacier passed through here five minutes ago. Along the road ar
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Holmön
Holmön, known as the sunniest place in Sweden, is a 15km-long offshore island with a boat museum (adult/child Skr20/free; hmid-Jun–mid-Aug) and a collection of traditional craft, plus a good quayside restaurant and swimming beaches. In July there’s a row-boat race to Finland, which
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Kinnekulle
The ‘flowering mountain’ Kinnekulle (306m), 18km northeast of Lidköping, features unusually diverse geology and plant life, including mighty ancient oaks. It’s also home to rare creatures, including the greater crested newt and short-horned grasshopper. There are numerous short nat
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Mariakyrkan
In the old town, the 15th-century Gothic brick Mariakyrkan has a magnificent interior, including a triptych dating from 1450 and an ornate Renaissance pulpit.
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Astrid Lindgrens Värld
Young children and Pippi Longstocking aficionados shouldn’t miss Astrid Lindgrens Värld, on the northern edge of town. Actresses dressed as Pippi (complete with gravity-defying pigtails) sing and dance their way around the 100 buildings and settings from the books. Prices drop outs
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Maria Magdalena Kyrka
Consecrated in 1643, Södermalm’s oldest church stands on the site of a 14th-century chapel, torn down by serial church trasher Gustav Vasa after the Reformation of 1527. Although fire destroyed much of the current building in 1759, it was faithfully rebuilt, including the transept
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Gröna Lund Tivoli
Crowded Gröna Lund Tivoli has some 30 rides, ranging from the tame (a German circus carousel) to the terrifying (the Free Fall, where you drop from a height of 80m in six seconds after glimpsing a lovely, if brief, view over Stockholm). There are countless places to eat and drink i
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Nyköpingshus
The ruined castle Nyköpingshus hosted some violent times in the Swedish monarchy. The bickering among King Birger and his two brothers, Erik and Valdemar, peaked in 1317 when Birger invited them to a ‘peace banquet’. When they arrived, he hurled them into the dungeon and threw the
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Länsmuseum Gävleborg
The county museum, Länsmuseum Gävleborg, has beautifully designed exhibitions on regional culture through the ages, from prehistory to the ‘golden era’ (mid-19th century) to modern times, with recreated sitting rooms and shopfronts, the life stories of key figures in Gävle’s histor
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Almgrens Sidenväveri Museum
Knut August Almgren founded this historic weaving factory in 1883 using parts of a Jacquard loom smuggled from France in barrels of cognac. (The art of Jacquard weave looming was a guarded French secret, forcing the crafty Almgren to pose as a Frenchman in order to learn, and steal
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Museum Gustavianum
A wondercabinet of wondercabinets, the Museum Gustavianum rewards appreciation of the weird and well organised. The shelves in the pleasantly musty building hold case after case of obsolete tools and preserved oddities: stuffed birds, astrolabes, alligator mummies, exotic stones an
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Anundshög
Västerås is surrounded by pre-Christian sites. The most interesting and extensive is Anundshög, the biggest tumulus (burial ground) in Sweden, 6km northeast of the city. It has a full complement of prehistoric curiosities, such as mounds, stone ship settings and a large 11th-centur
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