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Liseberg Göteborg
42 Reviews ... or on second thoughts, best maybe tie it up again, so it won't be in your face when you enjoy the rides at the amusement park in Gothenburg, called Liseberg! Liseberg is the biggest amusement...
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Riverside & canals Göteborg
41 Reviews The colourful Utkiken is probably Goteborg's best known landmark. The lipstsick shaped building was completed in 1989 and designed by Ralph Erskine and Heikki Särg. At 86 metres it includes a cafe...
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Götaplatsen & Art Museum Göteborg
26 Reviews Great art gallery, much better than I thought it was going to be...website etc doesn't do it justice (couldn't get the english version to work). Quite large and a great impressionist/modern art...
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Fish Church Göteborg
10 Reviews The Fish Church (Fesekekorka) is the fish and sea food market of Goteborg. The building was opened in 1874 and resembles a church. It was an architectural experiment of military man Victor von...
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Avenyn Göteborg
14 Reviews If you are in Göteborg for any amount of time, you are sure to find yourself on the Avenyn (the Avenue) at least once, if not more. Formally called Kungsportsavenyn, it is the main street running...
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Haga quarters and Church Göteborg
20 Reviews Okay, if there only is one place you'll take your girlfriend/boyfriend for a romantic walk, Haga is the place! The Haga quarter is a small area, but you won't need anything more. The streets are small...
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Universeum Göteborg
11 Reviews Universeum is unlike any other place I have ever been to. It shows you the world and teaches you about it. Universeum has different 'zones' - take the 'elevator' up to the top floor and then work...
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Volvo Göteborg
7 Reviews Volvo was born in Göteborg in 1927, and this excellent museum is dedicated to all things Volvo; cars, trucks, buses, and engines for airplanes and rockets. The museum takes you through the history of...
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Älvsborg Fortress Göteborg
7 Reviews This 17th century fortress is located at the mouth of the Göta River and has a fascinating history. The island boasts a café, dungeons and a period church. Don't miss the big cannonball on one of...
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Marstrand Göteborg
5 Reviews The bus to here takes about an hour. You'd love the scenery as you approach the water & see all the boats, etc. Next, you jump onto a ferry (using that same 24-hour ticket) to cross over to the...
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Downtown Göteborg
20 Reviews A museum giving you the history of medicine from the Antiques until today, always with some exhibition on a hot topic. The permanent collections are from the 18th century and onwards and show hospital...
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Trädgårdsföreningen Göteborg
10 Reviews I have to admit that although I see the Botanic Garden in Gothenburg a lot, it's only on my way to a new football game... This because the garden is situated next to the football stadium Gamla...
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Slottsskogen & Natural History Museum Göteborg
13 Reviews Blue Chip Cafe. It has wi-fi, high speed internet ,coffee and a good selection of teas. This place has a serene and quite a friendly atmosphere, having difficuilty understanding swedish they are more...
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Maritiman Maritime Centre Göteborg
11 Reviews Unfortunately I was feeling REALLY tired and my feet were killing me by the time I reached this museum at Lilla Bomen so I decided I'd go back the next day if I had time, which in the end I didn't.....
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Archipelagos Göteborg
11 Reviews There are several tips already for the Archipelago on VT. It is a very nice area and I have to say that you didn't see Göteborg if you miss this. If you go there you can use the tram ticket for the...
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Maritime Museum / Sjöfartsmuseet Göteborg
8 Reviews The Sailor's Tower was erected to commemorate the sailor's who lost their lives at sea during the First World War. On top of the Sailor's Tower there is a figure of the sailor's wife. The 62 m tall...
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Opera Göteborg
14 Reviews Goteborg's Opera House was inaugurated in 1994. It was built after plans of the architect Jan Izikowitz and is nowadays one of the most modern buildings in the city. The classical style auditorium has...
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Botanical Gardens Göteborg
13 Reviews The Botanical Garden was conceived and planned by the municipality of Gothenburg (Göteborg) in the 1910's as a botanical garden with an extra emphasis on horticulture. The area in total is 175...
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East India ship Göteborg
4 Reviews Few things in life interests me so much as history (well okay, except for sport, travels, party and girls...:) ), but there are limits for how interesting it can be. A lot of years ago some persons...
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Kronhuset & Kronhusbodarna Göteborg
6 Reviews The whole block was originally built for the army as a warehouse. The big red building was built in 1642-54 in dutch style. 1660 there was a parliment in the building that Charles X summond for....
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Other churches Göteborg
9 Reviews The Christinae Church (Christinae kyrka) is Goteborg's German church. It was inaugurated in 1648 and named after queen Kristina. After a fire the church was rebuilt in 1748. The 42 bells were...
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Fortresses Göteborg
6 Reviews The Crown Fortlet (Skansen Kronan) is one of the three fortresses which were built during the 17th century to protect Goteborg. Nowadays it houses a military museum of uniforms and weapons. The Crown...
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Domkyrkan / Göteborg Cathedral Göteborg
6 Reviews What to do when the city's biggest church has burnt down, twice? Build it up again, of course. Domkyrkan (the cathedral) is the result of those two fires (1721 and 1802) and is today the biggest...
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Other excursions Göteborg
5 Reviews August Abrahamsson's home is a shining example of the interior design of the late 19th century. The castle holds handicraft and woodwork exhibitions, Midsummer celebrations and a Christmas market. The...
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New Ullevi Stadium Göteborg
6 Reviews The New Ullevi is a bit wrong to say, since the huge stadium in Gothenburg was built for the World Cup 1958. But it was no matter what more new than Old Ullevi, which was built in the beginning of the...
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At the graveyard of Husaby church you will find this huge rune stone. As you can see on the photo, it had been split in two but got restored and set upright again. The inscription means:Assur and Sven and Tore, they put this stone over their mother Oluv. God help her soul, and God´s mother and all God´s angelsYou will find this rune stone by walking straight from the main entrance of Husaby church towards the end of the graveyard and then turn left.
The Neolithic passage grave (a tomb where the burial chamber is reached along a distinct, and usually low, passage) of Luttra is one of the best preserved of its kind in Västergötland. Still time has not been acting too gracious on this site, this ancient tomb is damaged and even partly destroyed. It only has one roofblock left, and the passage is just a metre long - it originally used to be longer. But it is, nevertheless, an impressive witness of a distant past, being as old as some of the Egyptian pyramides.Unfortunately when we've been to Luttra, rain was falling in sheets and so we did not really get to explore this fascinating site. But Luttra is on my list of things "to do" next time we're around Falköping!
Close to the village of Källby you will find 2 impressive rune stones, one with a Heathen and the other one with a Christian inscription (you can find a photo of the 2nd rune stone at my Västergötland's rune stone travelogue). The stones were set opposite of each other on top of low hills. The inscription of the Christian stone means:Ulfr and Ragnarr, they raised this stone in memory of Fari, their father... Christian man. He had good belief in God.This stone has probably been moved here by count Magnus Gabriel de la Gardie in the 17th century. By placing the 2 stones opposite each other they were meant to become a symbol for the fight between Heathendom and Christianity at the time around the year 1,000 AD.
At the Northern outskirts of the village of Gudhem, right next to the church you will find this impressive ruined convent, established in 1160 as a Cisterican nunnery thanks to donations made by King Karl Sverkersson. Gudhem had originally been under supervision of the nearby monastery of Varnhem. But in 13th century, when Queen Katarina Sunesdotter entered the convent, after the death of her spouse King Erik XI (whose epithet was: the lisp and lame!), Gudhem became one of the wealthiest and most influential convents of Western Sweden. At this time the site was extended, the minster got reconstructed and elaborate stonemason's works were commissioned. Queen Katarina stayed at Gudhem until her death in 1252. A replica of her grave slab can still be seen at the convent.Gudhem got dissolved in the course of the Protestant Reformation in early 16th century and in 1529 parts of the buildings...
In the early Middle Ages Skalunda used to be one of 8 royal estates and also Gaetish lawspeakers resided and worked here. So hundreds of years ago Skalunda used to be a place of political and social importance to Västra Götaland and the area was rather populous. Some of the poeple who lived in this far away past have left traces that can easily be spotted until today. There are rune stones, for example, that have been set to commemorate kinsmen or to tell us of great events out of the dark past. At the churchyard of Skalunda you will find 2 rune stones with the following inscriptions (unfortunately the gravure has not been completely preserved):Rune stone 1: and Algísl placed this stone in memory of Særli, their fatherRune Stone 2:...-ríðr raised the stone in memory of her sons Svein ...
In the Middle Ages some rune stones were fixed in church walls. People thought that rune stones could conjur some evil as many of these relics are of heathen origin. So by imbedding them into churches the stones were thought to lose their powers.At Ås church you will find a rune stone fixed in the outer rear wall. The inscription means:Þórir raised this stone in memory of Karl, his partner, a very good valiant manInterestingly enough there's a rune stone in Hobro (Denmark) with almost exactly the same text. Karl probably died in Demark, and his friend Þórir then raised a memorial stone both where he died and where he used to live.
Amundtorp grave field lies at the Western edge of Billingen, above the plains that stretch towards lake Hornborga. Centuries ago the place has been used as a burial site by several granges in the close vicinity. The oldest graves date back to the early Iron Age. You can find various kinds of ancient graves here: stone circles, a burial mound and stone settings (some of them in the shape of ships). Today 8 graves are still visible, but there probably were more.Please note that there is a farm very close by and there are cows that graze at the grave field. So on a rainy day, due to the tracks of the cows' hoofs, the ground can become extremely muddy.
Ekornavallen is an ancient grave field close to Hornborgasjön (lake Hornborga) and one of the most remarkable ancient sites of Sweden. The first people were buried here at about 3000 B.C. and the place was used as a burial ground for more than 4000 years hereafter! Countless standing stones, stone circles, cairns, stone settings and barrows can be found in the vicinity (the area with the greatest number of ancient monuments is enclosed by a fence and gets "maintained" by grazing sheep). Maps and descriptions of research scientists of the 18th and 19th century show that there even used to be more ancient sites at and around Ekornavallen, but many of them are lost to us nowadays (due to damages caused by both nature and man).The Bronze Age was the first metal age (1800 - 500 B.C.). The elite of the Bronze Age were buried in cairns or mounds which were placed on heights in order to be...
With high expectations before my visit and being spoilt so much by Sweden’s beautiful nature, I found the Nature Reserve of Halle- och Hunneberg a little bit disappointing. The park is without a doubt beautiful, but it misses the extra spark, making it in my opinion a bit average. Hahaha, having said that, I have to admit that it beats every nature reserve I've ever seen in The Netherlands, so maybe I am just getting too choosy these days :-)Halle- and Hunneberg is a perfect place for a lovely walk in the forest, very enjoyable, not too demanding too walk (although I guess that also might depend on which trail you hike). Some parts of the park are quite wet and swampy, so some good shoes might be advisable. Or in some cases, as the sign says in the last photo, bring your boots! ("Stövlar nödvändiga" / "Boots needed!"). As this is a popular recreation area, there are quite a few picnic...
The deep and dark forest of Tiveden was for long a time a forest you would keep away from, due to pirates, thieves, trolls and other dangerous creatures. In the old days this was described as the border to the wild and unreliably people of the north.... and when you walk around in Tiveden, these thoughts are easy to understand. This park makes your imagination come alive. The quickly changing landscape, from dark green valleys with big boulders covered with moss, fallen over trees, moist in the air, to the higher elevations, where the sun light tries to be break through the trees. And all off a sudden you will be in an open spot in the forest, where the sun is shining brightly on the grey rocky surface, and the views over the surrounding area are wide and stunning. Imagine staring out over a blue lake, which mirrors its surroundings perfectly, as the water is so still or admiring a...
Hotel Gothia Towers Göteborg
5 Reviews and 436 Opinions This is probably the best hotel for business, either at the Swedish Exhibition and Congress Center...
Laholmen Hotel Strömstad
2 Reviews and 41 Opinions I did not overnight here but stopped in for the most delicious improptu lunch on a Monday in winter...
Hotell Skona Rum Uddevalla
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