Jämtland
It's hard to drive past this place at the eastern end of town on the E14. These guys have been producing handmade chocolates, truffles and caramels since…
Must-see attractions in Jämtland & the Bothnian Coast
The Bothnian Coast
This 55m-tall neoclassical church in its current incarnation dates from 1796, but its sacristy is from 1507 and inside is a 13th-century wooden Virgin of…
The Bothnian Coast
Nautically themed displays at this small maritime museum – part of the Gammlia museum complex – focus on the history of seal hunting in the Arctic. There…
The Bothnian Coast
Duck into underground dungeons, check out ye olde instruments of retribution, peer into the windowless 'punishment' cells and enjoy the tableaux of…
The Bothnian Coast
Norra Berget hill (150m) is crowned with an extremely ugly concrete viewing tower, but it rewards step-climbers with sweeping views of the city, squeezed…
Östersund
Glösa, 40km northwest of Östersund and by the Alsensjön lake, has some of Sweden’s finest Stone Age petroglyphs. The carvings, on rock slabs beside a…
The Bothnian Coast
From late May to late August up to three daily 45-minute boat tours on the M/S Drottning Silvia run from Södra Skeppsbron, Gävle's port, to the island of…
Jämtland
The narrow, serpentine 100km road that connects Ljungdalen and Åsarna runs through some of the remotest mountain landscape in Sweden, but its appeal lies…
The Bothnian Coast
Beyond Möljen, along Hamngatan and a couple of blocks up from it, is Fiskarstan (Fishermen’s Town), consisting of partially preserved, elegantly wood…
The Bothnian Coast
On the south side of the river, Gävle Castle (Gävle Slott) was originally built by King Johan III in 1593, looking like a real castle with pinnacles and a…
Östersund
Five kilometres west of the centre of Östersund is the restored, late-12th-century Frösö kyrka, with its distinctive separate bell tower, built on a…
The Bothnian Coast
Families mob Furuvik amusement park in summer, thanks to its roller coasters, Aqua Jungle pool area with water slides and ape enclosure at the zoo…
The Bothnian Coast
Gävle's impressive town hall was completed in 1790 after the previous one burned down in 1776. The upper part of the building was then destroyed in the…
