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Skillinge is a coastal locality in Simrishamn Municipality. It lies within the province of Skåne in the southernmost part of Sweden. There are around 960 year-round inhabitants within the locality, but the population increases manyfold during the summer months. It is the summer and tourism that is one of the main industries here in addition…
Simrishamn is a coastal town in the province of Skåne, in a region known as Österlen in the southernmost part of Sweden. It is with its around 6.800 inhabitants the seat of the local municipality. It has developed with the Baltic Sea at its doorstep with a harbor that has been important for both fishing…
Hultsfred is a locality and the seat of the local municipality in Kalmar County in southeastern Sweden. It became famous for its music festival Hultfredsfestivalen which attracted thousands of visitors between 1982 and 2012. Hultsfred and its population of around 5.600 inhabitants still have a strong connection to pop and rock music, a living legacy…
Kåseberga is a small settlement in Ystad Municipality in the southern Swedish province of Skåne. It is a coastal settlement along the shores of the Baltic Sea. However, it is not the access to the sea that makes this place famous. Its around 100 inhabitants live at the base of a hill. On top of…
Åhus is a coastal town in Kristianstad Municipality in the province of Skåne. It lies along the shores of the Baltic Sea in southern Sweden. This is a popular summer resort for many, both occasional visitors as well as for a recurring summer population. It is home to around 10,500 year-round inhabitants, but the population…
Röttle is a small settlement just south of Gränna in Jönköpings Municipality. It lies at the shores of Lake Vättern, the second largest lake in Sweden, and has a population of around 60 inhabitants. It is, however, probably most famous for its waterfall and the many historical water-powered mills that can be found here. With…
Ödeshög is a locality in Östergötland County in eastern Sweden. It is the seat of the local municipality and it also used to be the church village of the former parish. The population of around 2,700 inhabitants live just a short distance uphill from the shores of Lake Vättern, the second-largest lake in Sweden. A…
Målilla is a locality in Hultsfred Municipality in Kalmar County. This is a part of the historical province of Småland in southeastern Sweden. The locality has a population of around 1,400 inhabitants and is a merger between three small settlements. These were the church village, the settlement around the railway station, and the settlement of…
Jämshög is a locality in Olofström Municipality in the southern Swedish province of Blekinge. It is today home to around 1.600 inhabitants, living just a short distance south of Olofström, the seat of the municipality. This was, however, once the seat of the local parish. It was within the borders of Jämshög Parish that the…
Helsingborg is a coastal city in Skåne County in the southern part of Sweden. This is the closest that you will get to Denmark from the Swedish mainland, with Helsingør located directly across the narrow Öresund Strait. Helsingborg is, with a population of around 113,000, the second largest city in the province of Skåne, with Malmö…
Olofström is a locality in the province of Blekinge in southern Sweden. It is the seat of one of the five municipalities that make up what is today Blekinge County. It is the only one of the municipalities that does not have direct access to the Baltic Sea. This is a former industrial town that…
Gyllene Uttern is a hotel as well as a service area for the E4 motorway just south of Gränna in Jönköping Municipality. The hotel is the oldest roadside hotel or inn in Sweden. Or the oldest motel if you so like. It has a history dating back to 1933 and it enjoys a magnificent view…