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From the Arctic fells down to the orchards of Skåne. Every place here is somewhere we know and design journeys around.
Aurora, Swedish LaplandAbiskoThe clearest sky in the Arctic, and a valley that keeps it that way.Dec – MarCouples and photographers
Icehotel, Torne riverJukkasjärviA hotel carved fresh from the river every winter, and gone again by spring.Dec – AprFamilies and first-timers
Laponia and SápmiJokkmokkThe cultural heart of Sápmi, on the edge of Europe's last great wilderness.Feb, Jun – AugCulture-led travellers
TreehotelHaradsA few hundred people, a pine forest, and some of the most photographed rooms in Sweden.Year roundDesign-led couples
The frozen seaLuleå archipelagoThe one archipelago in Europe you can drive across.Feb – MarReturning Arctic travellers
Mountains, JämtlandÅreSweden's mountain village, and the one that holds up against the Alps.Dec – AprSkiing families
The High CoastHöga KustenA coastline still rising out of the sea, faster than anywhere else on earth.Jun – SepWalkers and solitude seekers
Dalarna lake countrySiljanThe province that supplies Sweden with its idea of itself.Jun – AugFamilies and slow travellers
A plateau, a waterfall, a treeFulufjälletSweden's tallest waterfall, and something older than agriculture.Jun – SepWalkers, and anyone who likes deep time
A capital on waterStockholmFourteen islands of city, and the sea starts at the quay.Year roundFirst-time Sweden travellers, and food and design-led couples
Thirty thousand islandsStockholm archipelagoThirty thousand islands, and a capital twenty minutes from the first of them.Jun – AugCouples and small groups
Bohuslän skerriesFjällbackaGranite, oysters, and the village Ingrid Bergman kept coming back to.May – SepFood-led travellers
Where spring lands firstHornborgasjönTwenty thousand cranes, and the sound carries a long way.Mar – AprAnyone who wants a season to arrive in front of them
Old forest between the lakesTivedenBoulders, old pine, and one of the four birds in the north that lek.Apr – SepWalkers, photographers, and the very patient
Gotland, walled townVisbyA medieval city wall, intact after seven hundred years, with roses growing over it.Jun – AugCouples and history lovers
Skåne's east coastÖsterlenApple orchards, chalk cliffs, and long tables. The slowest corner of Sweden.May – SepFood and art travellers
Cliffs, caves and a micronationKullabergA hard headland, a hidden sculpture, and a country that isn't one.May – SepWalkers, and anyone who likes a good story
Sculpture in a beech forestWanåsEighty works in forty hectares of beech forest. Most of Europe has never heard of it.May – OctAnyone who looks at things properly
Where the birds leave SwedenFalsterboThe last land before the crossing. In autumn, the sky is full.Aug – NovBirdwatchers, photographers, and the patient