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.

Västerås

The technology city on Mälaren is actually one of Sweden’s oldest centres and has one of its oldest cathedrals and a small castle.

Older still, however, is the site known as Anundshög, a short bus ride east of the city centre. Anundshög was a power centre where burial mounds, ship-setting graves and a large runestone come together with an alignment from the Eriksgata, Sweden’s early medieval processional way for kings.