Heritage Sites in Sweden

1 Stora Alvaret
Stora Alvaret (the Great Alvar) is a
limestone barren plain on the island of
Oland, Sweden. It has been designated as a
World Heritage Site by UNESCO due to its
extraordinary biodiversity and prehistory.
Type: Cultural
Year: 2000

2. Birka and Hovgarden

Birka was an important trading center

which handled goods from
Scandinavia as well as Central and
Eastern Europe and the Orient.
Hovgarden is an archaeological site on
the Lake Malaren island of Adelso in
Ekero Municipality in central-eastern
Sweden.
Type: Cultural
Year : 1993

3. Church Village of Gammelstad, Lulea

Gammelstad Church Town is a UNESCO
World Heritage Site situated in
Gammelstaden near the city of Lulea2,
Sweden at the northern end of the Gulf
of Bothnia. It is the best preserved
example of a type of town that was
once widespread throughout northern
Scandinavia.
Type: Cultural

Year: 1996

4. Decorated Farmhouses of Halsingland

The farmhouses of Halsingland are a
cultural heritage and an example of
traditional Swedish construction
technique in the old farmers society in
Halsingland.
Type: Cultural
Year: 2012

5. Engelsberg Ironworks
The history of iron production in the
region dates back to at least 13th
century. The local peasants both
mined the ore and produced the
iron using primitive furnaces.
Type: Cultural
Year: 1993

6. Hanseatic Town of Visby

Visby is a locality and the seat of Gotland Municipality in Gotland County,
Sweden with 23,576 inhabitants, as of 2012. The Hanseatic city of Visby is
arguably the best-preserved medieval city in Scandinavia and since 1995,

Type: Cultural
Year: 1995

7. High Coast/Kvarken Archipelago

High Coast is a part of the coast of
Sweden on the Gulf of Bothnia,
situated in the municipalities of
Kramfors, Hrnsand and
rnskldsvik and notable as a type
area for research on post-glacial
rebound and eustacy, in which the
land rises as the weight of the
glaciers melts off of it.
Type: Natural
Year: 2000
8. Laponian Area
The Laponian area is a large
mountainous wildlife area in the
Lapland province in northern
Sweden. The total area is about
9400 km, making it the world's
largest unmodified nature area to
be still cultured by natives.
Type: Mixed
Year: 1996
9. Mining Area of the Great Copper Mountain in Falun
Falun Mine was a mine in Falun, Sweden, that operated for a millennium from
the 10th century to 1992. It produced as much as two thirds of Europe's

copper needs and helped fund

many of Sweden's wars in the 17th
century
Type: Cultural
Year: 2001

10. Naval Port of Karlskron

Karlskrona is a
2010.
host

locality and the seat of Karlskrona Municipality,

Blekinge County, Sweden with 35,212 inhabitants in
It is also the capital of Blekinge County. Karlskrona is
known as Sweden's only baroque city and is
to Sweden's only remaining naval base and
the headquarters of the Swedish
Coast Guard.
Type: Cultural
Year: 1998
11. Rock Carvings in Tanum
The rock carvings in Tanum, in the
north of Bohusln, are a unique
artistic achievement not only for
their rich and varied motifs
(depictions of humans and animals,
weapons, boats and other subjects)
but also for their cultural and
chronological unity. They reveal the
life and beliefs of people in Europe
during the Bronze Age and are
remarkable for their large numbers
and outstanding quality.

Type: Cultural
Year: 1994

12. Royal Domain of Drottningholm

Built on the island Lovon, it is one of
Sweden's Royal Palaces. It was
originally built in the late 16th
century. It served as a residence of
the Swedish royal court for most of
the 18th century. Apart from being
the private residence of the Swedish
royal family, the palace is a popular
tourist attraction.
Type: Cultural
Year: 1991
13. Skogskyrkogarden
Skogskyrkogarden is a cemetery
located in the Enskededalen
district south of central Stockholm,
Sweden. Its design, by Gunnar
Asplund and Sigurd Lewerentz,
reflects the development of
architecture from Nordic Classicism
to mature functionalism.
Type: Cultural
Year: 1994

14. Struve Geodetic Arc

The Struve Geodetic Arc is a chain of survey triangulations stretching from
Hammerfest in Norway to the Black Sea, through ten countries and over
2,820 km, which yielded the first accurate measurement of a meridian. In
2005, the chain was inscribed on the World Heritage List as a memorable
ensemble of the chain made up of 34 commemorative plaques or built
obelisks out of the original 265 main station points which are marked by
drilled holes in rock, iron crosses, cairns, others.

Type: Cultural
Year: 2005

15. Varberg Radio Station

The

Varberg Radio Station at

Grimeton is a VLF
transmission facility at
Grimeton close to Varberg,
Halland, Sweden. It has the
working Alexanderson
alternator rotating armature
transmitter in the world
Type: Cultural
Year: 2004

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