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.

Öland

Öland, the narrowest island in Europe, was almost a world of its own in prehistoric times. Sweden is a land of prehistoric remains and monuments, but Öland has more of them, and in greater variety, than any part of Sweden, plus the mysterious forts that served as shields from the uncertain fortunes that went with the Baltic Sea.

Öland is also a unique natural landscape prized by naturalists and has its own prized world-heritage area.