The most beautiful places in Sweden

Sweden is a country of rare beauty, even amid its starkest northern landscapes. Its cities and towns testify to 1000 years of urban life, but there are precious places offering glimpses into even older traditions of human settlement.

Gävle

Gävle is a leafy and graceful city founded in the 15th century and the oldest in the part of Sweden known as Norrland. There is a small castle and the part of its old settlement that has been preserved is a precious reminder of how wooden towns used to look in Sweden.

The preserved precinct includes the childhood home of the tragic US labour activist Joe Hill.