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Christmas at Liseberg Amusement Park
Gothenburg celebrates Christmas in traditional style at Scandinavia's biggest amusement park - the Liseberg. Shrieks of delight should replace shrieks from adrenalin highs, as Santa promises…
Christmas at Liseberg Amusement Park
Gothenburg celebrates Christmas in traditional style at Scandinavia's biggest amusement park - the Liseberg. Shrieks of delight should replace shrieks from adrenalin highs, as Santa promises…
Stockholm's mammoth Skansen open-air museum offers up its own charming festivities for traditional Lucia Day. A young girl representing Lucia arrives in procession all dressed in white with…
The Skansen Christmas Market is one of the biggest in Sweden and dates back to 1903. Visitors can admire craft products in the Town Quarter, buy Christmas ornaments and sweets, and warm up…
Ice sculptors and fire artists do wonderful things with the elements on Skansen's Solliden Square for Stockholm's Winter Solstice Festival. The artists are accompanied by specially composed…
Christmas at Liseberg Amusement Park
Gothenburg celebrates Christmas in traditional style at Scandinavia's biggest amusement park - the Liseberg. Shrieks of delight should replace shrieks from adrenalin highs, as Santa promises…
Christmas Fair in the Old Town
Since 1914, the main square in Stockholm's Gamla Stan has hosted a traditional Swedish Christmas fair. Stock up on presents and warm up with candy and glögg. Surrounded by snow and medieval…
Christmas Fair at Steninge Palace
Surrounded by pure white snow, the beautiful Baroque buildings of Steninge Palace are a suitably atmospheric setting for this annual Christmas fair. The stunning backdrop, stalls offering…
Julotta (Early Christmas Morning Service)
The Early Christmas Morning Service - or Julotta - in Skansen's Seglora Kyrka church is a very atmospheric way to start the festivities of the day...with the path up to the church lined with torches.
The New Year celebration at Stockholm's famous Skansen open-air museum is a fairly sedate option - visitors can listen to Tennyson's Ring Out Wild Bells being read out at the stroke of midnight.
Galileo's Telescope: The instrument that changed the world
Marking the fourth centenary of the first astronomical discoveries made by Galileo Galilei, the Galileo's Telescope exhibition at Stockholm's Nobel Museum is dedicated to the discoveries of…
The Kiruna Snow Festival is an annual celebration of winter that takes place in the north of Sweden, where the Northern Lights can be glimpsed across the snowy expanses. Participating teams…
Sami people all over Scandinavia celebrate their life and culture, and educate others, in February each year. Expect exhibitions and various cultural events dotted throughout Sweden on Sami…
The Jokkmokk Winter Market, established in 1605, is an important Sami cultural event and now a major tourist attraction - an opportunity for trade which brings together many different groups…
Ice-skating is fun wherever you are, but remember, in Stockholm everyone is rather good at it. After all, the locals have dealt with a lot of ice over the years. Let yourself go at the city's…
Constructed from the frozen Torne River each winter, Sweden's Icehotel in Jukkasjärvi is a very smart igloo. Opt for the 'cold accommodation' to sleep in a thermal bag on a bed of snow and ice…
Walpurgis Night, or Valborgsmässoafton, is a major happening in the Swedish calendar. In Stockholm, Skansen celebrates the coming of spring with a parade, concerts and dance performances. The…
Valborg, or Walpurgis, is Sweden's annual feast of the witches. Young and old come together all over the country to celebrate around a communal bonfire. The fireworks, singing and dancing…
Every year, Skansen celebrates Norway's National Day with special folk dances, processions, food and traditional costumes.
Runners make their way to the Stockholm Olympic Stadium for the start of the city's annual marathon. The two-lap course (42.195km) goes through the Royal Park (DjurgÃÂ¥rden), along waterways…
