The Best of Sweden - KALMAR

In KALMAR you can tread in historic footsteps. The city has with its architecture and city plan its dykes cobbled streets and stone houses from the 1600s in a unique way preserved the memory of American stormaktstid. Experience such as Old Town which is located right next to Kalmar Castle Kalmar County Museum with its Kronanutställning and Kalmar Art Museum which from spring 2008 new premises in the City park. The Castles history extends 800 years back in time. For a long time the Kalmar Castle a significant försvarsanläggning called key state because of its strategic location. Then went the limit of Denmark only a few mil south of the city because among other things Scania and Blekinge were Danish. Kalmar Castle got its current appearance during the 1500s when Vasakungarna Gustav Erik XIV and Johan III was based on medeltidsborgen to a renaissance palaces with interiors under the continental pattern. Already had previously castle played an important role in Nordic politics among other things as a meeting place for the signing of the Kalmar Union 1397 an event that was celebrated throughout the Jubilee Year 1997,

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