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🇸🇪 Sweden · Archaeological wonder
Gripsholm Castle (Swedish: Gripsholms slott) is a castle in Mariefred, Södermanland, Sweden.
🇸🇪 Sweden · Archaeological wonder
The Archbishop's Palace (Swedish: Ärkebiskopsgården) in Uppsala, Sweden, is the official residence of the Lutheran Archbishop of Uppsala, the primate of the Church of Sweden.
🇸🇪 Sweden · Archaeological wonder
The Greby grave field (Swedish: Greby gravfält) is an Iron Age grave field in western Sweden. It is located north of Grebbestad, Tanum Municipality in Västra Götaland County.
🇸🇪 Sweden · Archaeological wonder
Gärde is a locality in the north of Offerdal in the historical province Jämtland in the middle of Sweden.
🇸🇪 Sweden · Earthwork
Götavirke (Geatish Dyke) are the remains of two parallel defensive walls going from north to south between the villages of Västra Husby (58°29′N 16°10′E) and Hylinge (58°28′N 16°10′E) in Söderköping…
🇸🇪 Sweden · Rock art
Himmelstalund is a large park/open space in Norrköping, Sweden. The park is known for having one of Sweden's densest collection of petroglyphs, with more than 1,600 rock carvings across 60 panels.
🇸🇪 Sweden · Megalith
Gantoftadösen (or Jättestugan - "giant's home") is a partially destroyed dolmen in the area of Helsingborg in Scania, Sweden.
🇸🇪 Sweden · Archaeological wonder
building in Upplands-Bro Municipality, Stockholm County, Sweden
🇸🇪 Sweden · Ancient city
The Ajvide Settlement (Swedish: Ajvideboplatsen) is located in Ajvide, Eksta, on the western coast of Gotland, Sweden.
🇸🇪 Sweden · Archaeological wonder
Adelsö is an island in the middle of Lake Mälaren in Sweden, near Björkfjärden. The island is part of Ekerö Municipality and Stockholm County.
🇸🇪 Sweden · Archaeological wonder
Alby is a village on the Baltic Sea in the Hulterstad district at the western fringe of the Stora Alvaret on the island of Öland, Sweden.
🇸🇪 Sweden · Archaeological wonder
The Alvastra pile-dwelling (Swedish: Alvastra pålbyggnad or Alvastraboplatsen) is a pile dwelling (also called a stilt house) from ca 3000 BC in Alvastra, Ödeshög Municipality, Östergötland County,…
🇸🇪 Sweden · Archaeological wonder
Björkö (Swedish for "Birch Island") is an island in Lake Mälaren in eastern-central Sweden. It is mostly famous for housing the excavation site Birka populated c.
🇸🇪 Sweden · Fortress
Borgeby Castle (Swedish: Borgeby slott) lies in Lomma Municipality, Scania in southern Sweden, beside the Kävlingeån, the largest river in Scania.
🇸🇪 Sweden · Archaeological wonder
The Drottningholm Palace Theatre (Swedish: Drottningholms slottsteater) is an opera house located at Drottningholm Palace in Stockholm, Sweden.
🇸🇪 Sweden · Fortress
Dynge Castle (Swedish: Dynge borgruin), also formerly known as Dyngehus, is a castle ruin in central Bohuslän, Sweden.
🇸🇪 Sweden · Hydraulic works
The English Canal (Swedish: Engelska kanalen) was a planned and partially completed canal project that would connect the Swedish iron ore fields around Kiruna and Gällivare with Luleå and the Gulf of…
🇸🇪 Sweden · Ancient city
Gene Fornby is a reconstructed Iron Age settlement just outside Örnsköldsvik, in Västernorrland County, Sweden.
🇸🇪 Sweden · Archaeological wonder
Glösa is a locality in Alsen in the historical province Jämtland in the middle of Sweden. Glösa is situated in Krokom Municipality, 50 kilometres northwest of Östersund, the capital of Jämtland.
🇸🇪 Sweden · Archaeological wonder
Gråträsk is a village in Sweden. It is located in the western part of Piteå kommun in the south of Norrbotten close to the Lappmarksgränsen, at an isthmus between the lakes Gråträsket (415 square…