{"id":240,"date":"2009-07-28T10:44:27","date_gmt":"2009-07-28T14:44:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/swedish\/?p=240"},"modified":"2009-07-28T10:44:27","modified_gmt":"2009-07-28T14:44:27","slug":"swedish-unesco-world-heritage-sites","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/swedish\/swedish-unesco-world-heritage-sites\/","title":{"rendered":"UNESCO World Heritage Sites in Sweden"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>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 <strong>Stockholm<\/strong> and think they \u201cknow\u201d the real Sweden. I don\u2019t know about you, but personally, I\u2019m 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 <em>(no it\u2019s not you, Lola!)<\/em> and she thinks, no, she&#8217;s convinced that <strong>Stockholm<\/strong> is all that Sweden has to offer. No, scratch that, she&#8217;s convinced that Sweden IS <strong>Stockholm<\/strong>, and that\u2019s it. End of story.<\/p>\n<p>So in case you are wondering what else is there to see in this country, I thought I\u2019d take the most convenient way out and list all the UNESCO World Heritage sites. And there\u2019s more than just a couple of them here (oh, how I wish that those ill-informed travel writers knew how to use google!)<\/p>\n<p>Here they are (most of them, anyway) in the order they\u2019ve been added to the World Heritage list:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Drottningholm<\/strong> Palace, Theatre \u2014 1991<\/li>\n<li><strong>Birka<\/strong> and <strong>Hovg\u00e5rden<\/strong> (on the islands <strong>Bj\u00f6rk\u00f6<\/strong> and <strong>Adels\u00f6<\/strong> in <strong>M\u00e4laren<\/strong> near Stockholm) \u2014 1993<\/li>\n<li><strong>Engelsberg<\/strong> Ironworks \u2014 1993<\/li>\n<li>Rock carvings in <strong>Tanumshede<\/strong> \u2014 1994<\/li>\n<li><strong>Skogskyrkog\u00e5rden<\/strong> (in <strong>Stockholm<\/strong>) \u2014 1994 &#8211; I even wrote about this one before<\/li>\n<li>Hanseatic town of <strong>Visby<\/strong> \u2014 1995<\/li>\n<li>Church Village of <strong>Gammelstad, Lule\u00e5 <\/strong>\u2014 1996<\/li>\n<li>Laponian area (in the <strong>G\u00e4llivare<\/strong> Municipality, <strong>Arjeplog<\/strong> Municipality and <strong>Jokkmokk<\/strong> Municipality \u2013 my favorite!), Swedish Lapland \u2014 1996 (that\u2019s a nature site)<\/li>\n<li>Naval Port of <strong>Karlskrona<\/strong> \u2014 1998<\/li>\n<li>Agricultural Landscape of southern <strong>\u00d6land<\/strong> \u2014 2000 (another nature site)<\/li>\n<li>High Coast and <strong>Kvarken<\/strong> Archipelago \u2014 shared with Finland \u2014 2000, 2006 (a totally fabulous nature site)<\/li>\n<li>Mining Area of the Great Copper Mountain in <strong>Falun<\/strong> \u2014 2001<\/li>\n<li><strong>Varberg<\/strong> Radio Station at <strong>Grimeton<\/strong> \u2014 2004<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>So there you have it! There is indeed more to Sweden than just Stockholm and even the UNESCO World Heritage list big wigs agree!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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. 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