UNESCO World Heritage Sites in Sweden Posted by Transparent Language on Jul 28, 2009 in Uncategorized
Believe it or not, but I know a person who actually said that Sweden was a very boring country. She claims that apart from Stockholm, there is absolutely nothing interesting worth visiting here. Unfortunately, her point of view is shared by the many foreign travel writers who bang out mediocre stories about Stockholm and think they “know” the real Sweden. I don’t know about you, but personally, I’m tired of such nonsense and so when I see a travel article on Sweden in one of the major US newspapers (or even travel magazines) I am reluctant to read it. I even know one such travel writer (no it’s not you, Lola!) and she thinks, no, she’s convinced that Stockholm is all that Sweden has to offer. No, scratch that, she’s convinced that Sweden IS Stockholm, and that’s it. End of story.
So in case you are wondering what else is there to see in this country, I thought I’d take the most convenient way out and list all the UNESCO World Heritage sites. And there’s more than just a couple of them here (oh, how I wish that those ill-informed travel writers knew how to use google!)
Here they are (most of them, anyway) in the order they’ve been added to the World Heritage list:
- Drottningholm Palace, Theatre — 1991
- Birka and Hovgården (on the islands Björkö and Adelsö in Mälaren near Stockholm) — 1993
- Engelsberg Ironworks — 1993
- Rock carvings in Tanumshede — 1994
- Skogskyrkogården (in Stockholm) — 1994 – I even wrote about this one before
- Hanseatic town of Visby — 1995
- Church Village of Gammelstad, Luleå — 1996
- Laponian area (in the Gällivare Municipality, Arjeplog Municipality and Jokkmokk Municipality – my favorite!), Swedish Lapland — 1996 (that’s a nature site)
- Naval Port of Karlskrona — 1998
- Agricultural Landscape of southern Öland — 2000 (another nature site)
- High Coast and Kvarken Archipelago — shared with Finland — 2000, 2006 (a totally fabulous nature site)
- Mining Area of the Great Copper Mountain in Falun — 2001
- Varberg Radio Station at Grimeton — 2004
So there you have it! There is indeed more to Sweden than just Stockholm and even the UNESCO World Heritage list big wigs agree!
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Comments:
Jeff Lindqvist:
Thanks for mentioning my town! (Visby)
firasath ali:
hello everybody here , i hope everyone is fine , i just wanna request some one to please help me to learn swedish language , i really wanna learn it ????? can anyone help me .
David:
And this list does not include (1) Gothenburg, (2) Malmö, (3) all of Dalarna, (4) Uppsala, (5) the Kingdom of Crystal (Glasriket), or (6) Österlen, Sweden’s Provence. Of course the list shouldn’t include these things, since they aren’t World Heritages. But they’re still great tourist destinations. Oh, and I forgot about the Ice Hotel…
xandrewx:
The high coast is amazing. Having a girlfriend from Örnsköldsvik and now living here myself from Australia, the only thing better than seeing what this area has to offer is watching MoDo play hockey! Forget Stockholm, see the outside areas of the country.
Ölänning:
Yay, the countryside of Sweden rules!