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Best way to travel Scandinavia

editor — Mon, 06 Feb 2017 16:42:00 +0000

At Legten a road goes off on the left to the interesting Renaissance castle of Rosen holm (1 6th c.). 1 km (j mile) before Ronde a minor road on the left leads to Thorsager, with the only round church in Jutland (dating in part from c. 1200). The road to Ebeltoft branches off A1 5 just before Ronde. To the right of this road, on a peninsula reaching out into Kale Bay, are the ruins of Kale Castle (destroyed in the 17th c.), in which Gustavus Vasa was held prisoner in 1518. Ahead is an attractive view ofthe Mols

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How long to travel Scandinavia

editor — Sat, 04 Feb 2017 14:28:00 +0000

Vaxjo, main town of the province of Kronoberg, lies at the N end of Lake Vaxjo. There was a trading station here in the Iron Age and in Viking times. In the 12th c. it also became a religious focal point when its first church was built by St Sigfrid, a missionary from England, now the town’s patron saint. Long predominantly a garrison town and episcopal see, Vaxjo has developed within recent years into a lively industrial and educational town, with modern buildings and a wide range of recreation facilities. SIGHTS. The 12th c. Cathedral, after undergoing much alteration in

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Travel within Scandinavia

editor — Sat, 28 Jan 2017 04:22:00 +0000

Some 200 m (200 yds) NW, at the S end of the Municipal Park, is a building (Permanentan) housing the Vestlandske Kunstindustri-museum (applied and decorative art, furniture, carpets, porcelain, etc.), the Fishery Museum, which gives a good general picture of the Norwegian fishing industry, and the Municipal Museum of Art, with a collection of work by Norwegian painters of the 19th and 20th c. (J. C. Dahl, H. Gude, E. Munch, etc.). From here Christies Gate runs S past St Paul’s Church (Paulskirker, R.C.) to the hill of Sydneshaugen, on which are the University and, adjoining the Botanic Garden, the

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Travel Scandinavia rick steves

editor — Fri, 27 Jan 2017 21:31:00 +0000

Lake Saimaa boats, Lappeenranta territory, but, since almost its entire length, including its terminal port at Viipuri on the Gulf of Finland, lay within the territory which Finland was compelled to cede to the Soviet Union, it was closed. In the 1960s, however, the Soviet Union leased the canal zone back to Finland, and the Finns then builta new canal on the old line, with modern locks. SIG HTS. The main street is Kauppakatu, running from N to S. A little bit E of its intersection with Valtakatu, in the Kes-kuspuisto park (which lies roughly in the middle of the

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Travel planner Scandinavia

editor — Fri, 27 Jan 2017 16:57:00 +0000

Kaupanger ferry station on the Sognefjord (Lindstrom Turisthotell, 152 Offerdal Pensjonat, 80 b.), with a number of old houses, including the Hanseatic House. Road from the Laerdal to Floro. The only roads of any consequence in the Sognefjord are the E68 from Valdres ( 282) and its continuation, No. 5. From the fork in the road beyond (J)ye (283), E68 runs past the Otrevatn and through the Smeddal, via Boraug, to the Laerdal. Borgund (alt. 345 m 1130 ft) has a small stave church, black with pitch, the best preserved in the country. It was probably built around 1150, and

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