Sights in Östersund
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Jamtli
Don’t miss Jamtli, 1km north of the town centre. It combines an open-air museum park (à la Skansen in Stockholm) with a first-rate regional culture museum. In the outdoor section, guides wearing period costumes explain the traditions of the area. A perpetual stroller convention goes on at Hackåsgården, the large section of the park set aside for the tiniest tots. Indoors, the regional museum exhibits the Överhogdal Tapestry, a Christian Viking relic from around 1100 that features animals, people, ships and buildings (including churches). It’s one of the oldest of its kind in Europe and may even predate the famous Bayeux tapestry.
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Färgfabriken Norr
An offshoot of Färgfabriken in Stockholm, the Färgfabriken Norr is a huge art space across the E14 motorway from Jamtli (take bus 14 or 8). It’s a cavernous room with an ambitious curatorial scope; the initial exhibition included work by some 80 artists, including David Lynch and JG Thirlwell, representing pretty much all forms, from painting, sculpture and video to installations using broken glass, body hair and lightning.
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Frösön Island
Frösön Island is reached by road or footbridge from the middle of Östersund (the footbridge is from the pleasant Badhusparken - nearby you can rent bikes, inline skates and canoes). Just across the footbridge, outside Landstingshuset and near the Konsum supermarket, there's Sweden's northernmost rune stone, which commemorates the arrival of Christianity in 1050.
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Stone Age Rock Carvings
Glösa, 40km northwest of Östersund and by the Alsensjön lake, has some of Sweden’s finest Stone Age rock carvings. The carvings, on rock slabs beside a stream, feature large numbers of elk and date from 4000 BC. There’s also an excellent reconstruction of a Stone Age hut and replicas of skis, snowshoes, a sledge and an elk-skin boat.
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Viewing Tower
On Frösön island at Östberget there is a viewing tower and a cafe, as well as slalom and nordic ski runs.
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Stadsmuseum
The Stadsmuseum, near the tourist office, contains items of local historical, cultural and topographical interest.
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Frösöns Kyrka
The restored, late-12th-century Frösöns kyrka features a distinctive separate bell tower.
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Rådhus
The Rådhus is an impressive brick building with a cupola and tiled roof.
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