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Landskrona Slott
Landskrona Slott
Christian III began the citadel at Landskrona in 1549 to hold the Öresund. It is the best-preserved sixteenth-century castle in the Nordic countries — largely because it spent two hundred years as a prison instead of a ruin.
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Church of Old Uppsala
The church at Gamla Uppsala was Sweden's cathedral until 1273. What stands today is the fragment left behind — with an eleventh-century runestone in its wall that the church once cut down to serve as an altar.
Ales Stenar
Fifty-nine boulders in the outline of a ship, sixty-seven metres long, on a headland above the Baltic at Kåseberga. What Ales Stenar was for is still argued over — grave, cult site, or calendar.
Landskrona Slott
Christian III began the citadel at Landskrona in 1549 to hold the Öresund. It is the best-preserved sixteenth-century castle in the Nordic countries — largely because it spent two hundred years as a prison instead of a ruin.
Anundshög
Sweden's largest burial mound rises nine metres out of a field outside Västerås, ringed by stone ships and a row of runestones that once marked the road a new king rode. Most of it is anonymous; one stone is not.
Kärnan: Helsingborg's Medieval Keep
Helsingborg's brick keep, Kärnan, has watched over the Sound for some seven centuries — all that remains of a great medieval castle, reached today by a monumental terrace staircase climbing straight up from the old town.
The Stronghold at Glimmingehus
Standing alone among the fields of southeastern Skåne, Glimmingehus is the best-preserved medieval stronghold in Scandinavia — a fortified house raised between 1499 and 1506, when this corner of Sweden still answered to the Danish crown.
The Sigurd Carving at Ramsund
On a low rock at Sundbyholm outside Eskilstuna, an eleventh-century carving spells out the saga of Sigurd the dragon-slayer in red-painted line, while its runes quietly record a bridge raised across the Ramsund channel.
Lövånger Church
A grey stone church from the early 1500s with 117 red cottages packed around it. Lövånger's church town exists for a practical reason: the parish was too big to get home from before dark.
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