The largest church in the Nordic countries, a Gothic cathedral with twin spires, where Swedish kings were crowned and the botanist Carl Linnaeus is buried. Uppsala is Sweden's oldest university town; see the Gustavianum, with its anatomical theatre, and the Linnaeus Garden.
Just outside town, Old Uppsala (Gamla Uppsala) has great burial mounds of pagan kings from the 6th century and a museum. Uppsala is 40 minutes by train from Stockholm.
Around 30,000 islands, islets and rocks stretch from Stockholm out into the Baltic, with red cottages, pine woods and smooth granite rocks.
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.
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.
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…
A coast of steep hills, fjord-like bays and islands on the Gulf of Bothnia, which has risen 286 m since the last Ice Age, the highest land uplift in …
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