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Introducing Helsingborg
Fourteen million passengers per year pass through Helsingborg on their way to/from Denmark: many of them see very little of the town, which is a proper shame. Away from the port and gloomy underground travel centre, there are pedestrian streets and half-timbered houses, a jazzy new waterside art gallery and restaurants, and the ruins of a dramatic castle perched on high.
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Helsingborg's position on the Öresund gave it vital strategic importance during the many Swedish-Danish wars, and it was battled over and battered down with depressing regularity. In 1709, the Danes invaded Skåne but were finally defeated the following year in a battle just outside Helsingborg.
Last updated: Feb 17, 2009
