10 Recommended Sightseeing Spots in Northern Europe Sweden

10 Recommended Sightseeing Spots in Northern Europe Sweden

1. Stockholm City Hall

A Nobel Prize given to the achievements of world-renowned people in all fields. A banquet will be held at the Stockholm City Hall, where only those who are honored will be able to participate.

In the city hall, you can enjoy the rooms that are worth seeing, such as the golden and blue spaces, and the view of Stockholm, which consists of islands on Lake Malaren, which you can see from the 106m-high tower.

2. Nobel Museum (Stockholm)

The "Novel Museum" in Gamla Stan, a tourist attraction in Stockholm. You can see the achievements of successive Nobel Prize winners, an interview video of the winners, and tableware used at dinners.

At the cafe inside the building, you can also eat the ice cream that is served at the Nobel Prize ceremonial dinner! And on the back of the chair of this cafe, the autograph of the Nobel Prize winner is written

3. Stockholm subway station

Also known as the "longest museum in the world", the Stockholm subway station. Most of Stockholm's train stations are artistic and unique, with ceilings and walls decorated.

Solna centrum station where the fiery red jumps in as soon as we arrive at the station. Some people even describe it as a "hell station" because it is so impressive! This art reflects the political problems of the 1970s, rural depopulation and environmental destruction.

4. Drottningholm Palace (Stockholm)

Drottningholm Palace, a palace in the suburbs of Stockholm with the name "Versailles Palace in Northern Europe". The palace took 24 years to complete in 1686.

It is one of the most unique palaces built during this period and retains almost its original appearance. The palace, which was registered as a World Heritage Site in 1991, is open to the public except for the royal residence area

5. Skansen (Stockholm)

Stockholm's nature-filled Djurgården Island has the fascinating world's first “open air museum”. You can see 18th to 20th century houses relocated from all over the country, life at that time, people wearing folk costumes, folk craft production demonstrations, folk music performances, folk songs and dance performances. The museum is very interesting and full of contents.

6. Trotha

In the city of Trosa, which is located near Stockholm, a red wooden building called “Falunred”, one of the traditional Swedish architecture, adorns the waterfront.

Falun Red is so called because it is coated with pigments extracted from the Falun Mine, which is also registered as a World Heritage Site

7. Visby

Gotland, Sweden's largest island in the Baltic Sea, is the center of the Baltic trade and prospered under the Viking rule in the Middle Ages.

The old town of "Visby", which is the prefectural capital of the island, has many cultural heritage of the Viking era and is registered as a world heritage as a city that retains a strong medieval atmosphere. A row of orange roofs, cobblestone alleys full of flowers, 13 abandoned churches, and no matter where you look, it's a fairytale-like city

8. Gothenburg

Gothenburg, Sweden's second largest city. The relatively new cityscape is said to be the founder of King Gustav II Adolf, and after the repeated wars between Denmark and Norway, he finally acquired the site as an exit to the North Sea and used it as a base. Especially as the Swedish East India Company is famous, it flourished as a trading hub during the Age of Discovery.

Today, as a port city with beautiful sea and canals, it has many attractions.

9. Helsingborg

"Helsingborg" is located in the area of   Skåne in southern Sweden and re-approaching Denmark on the other side. The Skåne region was the setting for the Swedish female writer . children's literature "The Mysterious Journey of Nils".

In the Middle Ages, it was under the control of many local lords, and many castles were built by them. Helsingborg also has one of these ancient castles, Schernan.

10. Lund

The ancient city of Lund at the southern end of Sweden is said to be the “Eastern City” as opposed to the “Western City” of London, and was once the center of a great empire spanning the North Sea and surrounding countries. Today, it is a school city centered on a university with the largest number of students in Northern Europe.

At the southern end of the park on the south side of the University of Lund, the cathedral that can be said to be Lund's face is a majestic figure. The all-stone Romanesque church is dignified and has a dark history throughout