A medieval Hanseatic town on the island of Gotland in the Baltic, encircled by a 3.4 km wall with more than 50 towers, a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Inside are cobbled lanes, roses on the houses, and the ruins of more than a dozen medieval churches.
The Medieval Week in August brings markets and jousting. Gotland has beaches, sea stacks (raukar) on the island of Fårö, and cycling. Ferries run from Nynäshamn and Oskarshamn.
A Renaissance castle on the water in Kalmar, one of the best preserved in Scandinavia, where the Kalmar Union of Denmark, Norway and Sweden was signe…
Stockholm's old town, on a small island, with narrow cobbled lanes, ochre and red houses, and the Stortorget square.
The Vasa, a magnificent warship that sank on its maiden voyage in Stockholm harbour in 1628, and was raised 333 years later almost intact.
Around 30,000 islands, islets and rocks stretch from Stockholm out into the Baltic, with red cottages, pine woods and smooth granite rocks.
The largest church in the Nordic countries, a Gothic cathedral with twin spires, where Swedish kings were crowned and the botanist Carl Linnaeus is b…
One of Sweden's best-known beaches: about 2 km of fine white sand on the west coast, backed by pine forest and dunes.
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