Sweden (Blue Guides Series)

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With excellent coverage of the country's art and architecture, the second edition leads travelers through medieval churches and Renaissance castles. Replete with extensive practical information, and excellent maps and plans, this is a necessary guide to anyone interested in exploring Sweden.

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With excellent coverage of the country's art and architecture, the second edition leads travelers through medieval churches and Renaissance castles. Replete with extensive practical information, and excellent maps and plans, this is a necessary guide to anyone interested in exploring Sweden.

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Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9780393325898
  • Publisher: Blue Guide
  • Publication date: 3/19/2004
  • Series: Blue Guide
  • Edition number: 2
  • Pages: 400
  • Product dimensions: 4.80 (w) x 7.60 (h) x 0.70 (d)

Table of Contents

Introduction 7
Practical information
When to go 8
Passports and visas 8
Gathering information 8
Tourist information offices 8
Tour operators 9
Currency 10
Getting there 10
By air 10
By rail 10
By sea 10
By road 11
Where to stay 11
Food and drink 13
Getting around 18
By air 18
By car 19
By coach 19
By rail 20
By bicycle 20
By taxi 20
Annual events and festivals 21
Additional information 21
Banks 21
Children 21
Clothing 22
Disabled travellers 22
Embassies 23
Emergencies 23
English 23
Healthcare 23
The Internet 23
Museums 23
Newspapers and radio 23
Post and telephone services 23
Public holidays 24
Senior citizens and students 24
Smoking 24
Sport and leisure 24
Time 24
Tipping 25
Tracing Swedish ancestors 25
Voltage 25
For business or professional visitors 25
The Language 30
Background information
The land and the people 34
A brief history 37
Art and architecture 49
Further reading 58
The Guide
Stockholm 60
1 The central islands 77
2 Blasieholmen and Skeppsholmen 92
3 Norrmalm 96
4 Ostermalm 105
5 Djurgarden 109
6 Kungsholmen 116
7 Sodermalm 118
Excrsions from Stockholm 120
The Stockholm archipelago 121
Malaren 121
Across Sweden from east to west 123
The Malar region 123
The Gota Canal 126
The Trollhatte Canal 132
The west coast 133
Gothenburg 133
Old Town north 150
Old Town south 157
Avenyn 161
The Liseberg area 165
Haga 167
South-west Gothenburg 169
Ostindienfararen Gotheborg 172
Klippan 174
Excursions from Gothenburg 176
The archipelago 176
Bohuslan 178
Marstrand 179
Halland 187
Halmstad 191
The south 197
Skane 197
The north-west-Helsingborg 197
The south-west-Lund 206
The south-east-Ystad and Osterlen 216
The centre and north-east 219
Malmo 222
The Old Town 235
The castle area 240
The theatre area and Pildammspark 243
Excursions from Malmo 245
Blekinge 246
Karlskrona 250
Smaland 255
Jonkoping 256
Vaxjo 266
The east coast 271
Kalmar 271
Oland and Gotland 278
Oland 278
Borgholm 281
Gotland 284
Visby 288
Southern Gotland 296
Northern Gotland 298
Uppsala 300
Dalarna 312
The south 314
Falun 315
The Siljan area 320
Mora 322
Dalsland and Varmland 329
Dalsland 329
Varmland 331
Karlstad 332
Northwards along the Baltic coast 338
Umea 348
Inland to the north 358
Harjedalen 362
Jamtland 363
Ostersund 364
Lapland 370
Gallivare 376
Kiruna 379
Maps and plans
Gota Canal 128
Gothenburg 153
Gothenburg tram network 135
Inland to the north 359
Kalmar 275
Kiruna 385
Lund 211
Malmo 237
Stockholm
Gamla stan 79
Stockholm central 88
Stockholm Tunnelbanan 63
Skansen Museum 113
Uppsala 307
Visby 293
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