Varberg Travel Guide

 ZIMETMUS Says:  The museum website give a more complete description that I can: this museum is well worth the trip. There is the fortress, an art museum, a cultural exhibit - also on the grounds is a Cycling museum, restaurant as well as rotating exhibits. I recomend the audio tour ( which... 

 Roxxi Says:  Getterön Naturcentrum - Is such a beautiful place to see many types of birds, depending on the season. The new nature center building has a small cafe with tasty items, a gift shop with, very nice birding books, a nature center with several species of birds on display in... 

 evaanna Says:  Another macabre exhibit in the Museum of Varberg is King Karl XII's button. This bronze button was not only found missing from the king's uniform, but was discovered to ideally correspond to the size of the hole in the king's skull when he had been mortally wounded in an... 

 evaanna Says:  Varberg has been a well-known Swedish resort for over a century. The beautifully restored 19th century bathhouse still houses cold baths, where men and women can first bathe naked in separate rooms and then use the sauna. There is an elegant cafe in the building to let them... 

 evaanna Says:  Seeing the tragic remains of the 'Bocksten Man' can cost you a sleepless night or at least bring on some reflections on the world's cruel ways. The man lived 600 years ago but that does not lessen the pain he must have felt, being garrotted, impaled and drowned - not... 

 evaanna Says:  If you look at the place from the sea, you will know why foreign attackers have always considered this fortress unconquerable. High on a rocky cliff, with the sea on one side and a moat on the others, it could not have been an easy target for enemy. Once a residence of the... 

 evaanna Says:  The Museum at Varberg houses a permanent exhibition of the history of Halland, including the history of fishing and farming, an exhibition of paintings by artists of the so-called Varberg school of painting and a number of temporary exhibitions. While we were there, there... 

 Kidproton Says:  You simply must tour this place. There's a museum that details the lifestyle of the area, from the early 1600's to the ancient date of 1989! ;)there is also a 'bog mummy', the corpse of a 13th-century man who died in the swamp and whose bones, organs, hair etc were... 

 dave_21 Says:  The oldest sections of Varberg's Fortress date from the 13th Century, while the fortress walls were built in the 17th Century. The fortress has been Swedish property since the Danish occupiers left in 1645. 

 dave_21 Says:  This is defenetly a must see when visiting here, a day was not enough for me the last time I was here. I have been here tons of times but mostly at a child, and unfortunately I was to small to appreciate it!I have spent most of my summers here in Varberg as a child and... 

 dave_21 Says:  There isn't only cannons at the Fortress Roof. They also made holes in the wall to be able to shoot at people with arrows and cannons. But the holes sometimes looks like they are made from cannonballs.. and some is. So look closely if you're unsure. 

 dave_21 Says:  Inside they have a models of the Fortress, what it looked like 600 years ago and today! It's very fun to see the development on the Fortress and how they manage to get to to stand! 

 dave_21 Says:  Karl XII was born in 1682. He was the son of King Karl XI and Ulrika Eleonora. He became king when he was only 15 years old, because of the death of his father in 1697. He continued his father's concentration of power to the monarchy. This was the old struggle for power... 

 dave_21 Says:  The greatest attraction is the "Bockstensmannen"- the remains of a man who lived in the middel ages, complete with all his clothing, the only medieval costume in the world still preserved. He was born about 700 years ago and they think he was around 25 years when he died. He... 

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 dave_21 Says:  Varbergs Kurort Hotel & Spa is situated by Apelviken in Varberg. By a sea that can be calm and tranquil or rough and fierce. It lies next to the sea and a great beach for those who like to swim naked!! I have been here once getting a Swedish Massage, with sauna and aroma. It...