Destinations of Swedish Lapland Luleå winter/spring-winter 2014/15 ENG

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winter/spring–winter 2014/2015

Discover Gammelstad:

A World Heritage Site in winter clothing

the islands of swedish lapland lots of activities on the frozen sea

Ice cold sounds Ice Music is played on ice instruments

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Every winter since 1986, a large ice animal inspired by the local fauna is built in the city park (Stadsparken) in Luleå. The back of the ice animal serves as a much appreciated slide for children and adults alike. A reindeer, a hedgehog, a grey seal, a frog, a wolf and a woodpecker, pictured here are some of the animals that have provided winter fun throughout the years.

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Luleå’s sense of snow and winter sea ice, powdered with pure white snow, Luleå invites you to partake in winter fun and games, both indoors and outdoors. Use all your senses when you explore the city on the coast of the Bay of Bothnia. Experience the smell of snow, listen to the sound of your steps creaking on snowy ground, turn your eyes to the winter night and watch the northern lights dancing in the sky. Discover the many faces of winter.

Midwinter, in December, January and February, often offers cold temperatures and plenty of snow, whilst the spring-winter in March and April gives you shining sun and pleasant tours on skis or by snowmobile, on the ice or in the forest.

In Luleå, both city life and outdoor living are always close. How about five-star hotels with spa facilities, gourmet restaurants, cafés and theatres.

There is also Kulturens Hus with both a concert hall and an art gallery and sports arenas for professional ice hockey and basketball. There are really good shopping opportunities, the Gammelstad World Heritage Site, and a warm, welcoming environment. All of this, just a stone’s throw from forests and nature. Really close, yes, in the centre of town, you must try walking or ice skating on the frozen water, along the ice track that is ploughed from the North to the South Harbour. We recommend taking a detour to the nearby archipelagic island Gråsjälören. There might be a fire burning by one of the wind shelters, a perfect place to stop and rest and maybe grill a sausage.

You’re beginning to see it now: we who live in Luleå like the winter, we only see good things in the snow and the cold. We even perform music played on ice instruments – check out Ice Music.

The cold also helps us to attract business – for instance, the world famous company Facebook chose to establish their first datacentre outside the USA here in Luleå, thanks in part to our cold climate.

At Luleå University of Technology, world leading research in the area is being done.

Photo: Per Pettersson

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Welcome to fall in love with winter here in Luleå.

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Walk on water

that the Bay of Bothnia and Lule River that surrounds Luleå, freeze during the winter? Yes, it’s really true. The sea ice turns into a gigantic events arena for winter adventures both large and small. Try the local mode of transportation kick-sledding, go touring on ice skates, glide through the winter world on skis (no uphill or downhill slopes here), or try ice fishing, snowmobiling or dogsledding.

In order to really enjoy the outdoors in the winter, it is important to dress properly. Especially if you’re taking part in some physical activity: Think layer-on-layer and use wool or some other material that keeps you dry, closest to your body. A warm down jacket is a great outer layer when it’s really cold outside. Don’t forget warm shoes, gloves and headwear.

In the Luleå Archipelago, with over 1,000 islands, many miles of winter roads are ploughed, a service for both residents and visitors. Experience the feeling of travelling by car between the islands. Stop at the weekend waffle café at Jopikgården on Hindersön, talk to the islanders and marvel at the fact that in just a few months, the surrounding waters will be full of boats. Listen to the silence and feel the calm, rest your eyes right where the horizon meets the sky and fill up with energy from the vast, white vistas. There is plenty of room to just be, to let your mind run free and feel right at home.

The ice track that is ploughed around the town centre, from the North to the South Harbour, is loved by residents and visitors alike. Become one of the crowd of people on a sunny winter’s day, when everyone goes outside to go ice skating, skiing, kick-sledding, grilling, sunbathing, socialising and just having a great time together. Afterwards, when your cheeks are rosy after a day of fresh air and activity, you will fall asleep, tired but satisfied in your bed. Ah, that is wellbeing. d i d yo u k n ow

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Take the car out into the archipelago

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Daring to drive over the ice in the archipelago sounds unbelievable to many.

For people living in Luleå, however, the ability to travel by car between the islands of the archipelago, is a big part of winter life. Driving on the ice is risk free as long as you stay on the ploughed ice roads. The stability of the ice is regularly checked by test drilling.

The ice roads normally open at the end of January or early February, depending on weather and cold. Clear signage shows if the ice roads are temporarily closed and when the season is over.

Contact the Tourist Information Office or read more at www.lulea.se for more information about recommendations and safety on the ice roads.

Cool winter fishing

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From Brändön Lodge, there are guided tours by snowmobile or hovercraft to the outer parts of the archipelago. The pack ice, that is, the icebergs that form from the pressure when the open sea meets the coastal ice line of the archipelago, gives you a real feeling of being in the Arctic. The white vistas and the ice formations, sometimes as tall as ten metres, are fascinating.

Photo: Karin Åberg

The icebergs of the outer archipelago

From the North and South Harbours of Luleå, you can often spot people sitting alone on the ice for hours on end. What do you think they are doing out there? They are fishing! The trick is to first drill a hole through the frozen water, which will give you full access to the fish below. Pimpling is a Swedish word for ice fishing and when the rays of the early spring sun warms you, sitting on a reindeer pelt, it is a very relaxing activity where the catch is not always the greatest reward.

Try ice fishing/ pimpling via guided tours from Brändön Lodge or in the Råne River Valley. Or buy a simple ice fishing rod at a sports store and go looking for an existing hole that hasn’t frozen over yet. Fishing licences can be bought at the Tourist Information Office at Kulturens Hus.

Break the ice During the winter in Luleå, you can see the large icebreakers, Ale, Atle, Frej, Oden and Ymer parked between their missions. They keep a channel of open water in the ice, for incoming freight ships. Standing on the ice next to the channel is a thrill in itself.

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Only a stone’s throw

FROM THE CITY TO THE FOREST

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The Northern Lights, Aurora Borealis, shrouded in magic and mystery, are the visible reaction of particles from the sun colliding with parts of the outer atmosphere, following the whims of the solar winds. The sparkling light experience in green, blue and sometimes even red, then sweeps over the dark night sky. No matter where you go, there is no guarantee of seeing the Northern Lights on a certain date, but the chances are greatest from October to March. The Northen Lights can appear at any time of year but are easiest to see during long winter nights when the weather is clear. Travel away from the artificial city lights and you will have a much more intense experience. Download the Aurora Forecast app, available for both iPhone and Android, to get information on which nights it might be worth staying up for a little while longer.

CROSS-COUNTRY SKIING Experiencing nature whilst gliding on cross-country skis, almost without a sound, at a fast or a slow pace, is just part of everyday life for many people living in Luleå. Illuminated tracks let you ski even when it’s dark outside. The most extensive track system can be found at Ormberget, about 4 kilometres from central Luleå, with tracks for both beginners, leisure skiers and professionals, track lengths varying between 1.5 and 10 kilometres. Other illuminated cross-country tracks can be found at Mjölkuddsberget, Bergnäset, Gammelstad and Sunderbyn, as well as in the Råne River Valley. If you would rather make your own tracks, we recommend skiing on the frozen Lule River or on the ice in the archipelago, often no more than a couple hundred meters from your hotel. The local Tourist Information Office can help you further.

DOGSLEDDING Would you like to experience speed and excitement along with the dampened sound of paws and runners against snow? Then try dogsledding and feel yourself almost melting into the winter landscape. If you would like to, you could be your own musher. Examples of dogsledding organisers are Bothnia Sleddog Adventures, based at Örarna, north of Luleå, Svedjekojan Husky Farm, south of Luleå as well as Isdimma in Sörbyn, Råne River Valley. If you like, the adventure can start with you being picked up on the ice in central Luleå, just a short walk from your hotel.

Magical Northern Lights

Photo: Graeme Richardson

it’s right around the corner, and we can make our own tracks in the untouched snow. With skis on your feet and snow to carry you, you can travel a bit farther than on bare ground, turning the winter adventure into an expedition. Snowshoes or a snowmobile works just as well. The winter forest is something special, everything is white and fluffy, and all sounds are dampened. It feels safe somehow, caring. If you would rather whizz past on fast running skis on well prepared tracks, you have many miles to explore here in Luleå. By the way, have you tried skiing at night? Gliding along well-lit tracks, embraced by darkness and with a cool breeze on your face, is magical. You become at one with the forest.

Maybe you will get to see fresh elk tracks, maybe you will send a white hare running, meet curious squirrels or a sly fox sneaking between the tree trunks.

The forest that surrounds the town is old winter grazing country for the Sami communities by the Lule River. Large herds of reindeer feed out on the islands of the archipelago and if you’re lucky, you might get to meet a lone, roaming reindeer. Not far from Luleå, in Flakaberg, you can visit a Forest Sámi family, meet reindeer up close and learn more about Sámi culture.

Come – let’s head into the woods!

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coolest orchestra of what we have in abundence, and cold, snow and ice is turned into a positive experience and a playground. A good example of this is Ice Music. In the scenic, centrally situated park at Gültzauudden, is a specially designed concert hall built of ice and snow. An igloo, you might think. Sure, but the great thing about this igloo is that it has a full orchestra playing on instruments made of ice and snow. Guitars, violins, cello, double bass, xylophone, mandolin, banjo, percussion - all uniquely crafted from ice. When the musicians play, the concert hall and the instruments glow with LED lights in all the colours of the rainbow. Certainly a memorable and different music experience.

If you are curious about the sound of an ice violin, there is only one way to find out about it. The fantastic ice instruments are incredibly fragile, the ice violin for instance, is no thicker than 3 millimetres at its thinnest, and suspended on wires from the ceiling for safety. The creator of Ice Music is the American ice artist Tim Linhart from New Mexico, who now lives in Luleå. For more than 30 years, Tim has worked with making various types of advanced ice sculptures. Over the years, Tim became more and more interested in creating playable instruments from ice and developed the concept. In 2014, Ice Music in Luleå premiered at Gültzauudden and the news of the unique ice concert hall and the ice orchestra has spread all over the world. Here you can enjoy ice concerts of various genres, such as classical music, rock and folk music. i n lu l e å w e m a k e t h e m o s t

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If you are thinking about getting married, it is possible to hold a wedding in the ice concert hall, letting the happy couple walk down the aisle whilst the Wedding March is played on ice instruments.

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The concert hall has a constant temperature of five degrees below zero. Dress warmly to enjoy the ice music in the best possible way.

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A guide will meet you at Brändön Lodge for a day out in the archipelago. You will literally be hovering a bit above the ground or the ice when travelling by hovercraft. It whizzes, twists and turns, making the ride a memorable attraction in its own right.

By hovercraft, you can travel over the frozen sea out into the archipelago even at times when the ice might not be strong enough to support heavier vehicles. The goal of the excursion can be to see the pack ice in the outer archipelago or a visit to the small island of Brändöskär to visit the old chapel and have a hot beverage. If you step out of the hovercraft onto the frozen ice, you can catch a glimpse of both seals and sea eagles if you’re lucky.

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FAST PACED ADVENTURES

Ice driving with a pro instructor

Snowmobile, the obvious mode of transportation

At the Ice Driving Institute by Tinseau in Ebbenjarka outside Luleå, you can get a high speed driving experience which is out of the ordinary. On the ice track, there is a copy of the French racing track, Le Mans, ploughed into Lake Stora Antnästräsket, you will be driving a customised Porsche and learning how to manoeuvre the car at very high speeds on ice.

By your side are professional instructors with many years of racing experience. If you don’t want to drive yourself, you can also have a short ride in the passenger seat. A guaranteed thrill, no matter which way you do it.

Do as the people of Luleå do and go by snowmobile! No matter if you choose the frozen archipelago or a snug forest environment for your tour, the snowmobile is an excellent wintertime mode of transportation. You travel light and fast and you get really close to nature. When it’s time to take a break, there’s nothing like a hot beverage, or, on longer tours, lunch cooked over an open fire.

You can choose between several different tours, short ones and longer ones with overnight stays for a real winter adventure.

Guided tours are available in areas like Brändön Lodge, the Råne River Valley and Malmens Väg, the old transport route for iron ore.

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Hover over the ice

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Gammelstad Church Town

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WORTH PRESERVING

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Church Town highlights traditional christmas smorgasbord

In early December it’s time for the annual Christmas market at Hägnan, with tables overflowing with handicrafts and tasty goodies. In all the weeks up until Christmas it’s popular to gather friends and family and eat Christmas smorgasbord together. Christmas delicacies like ham, herring, salmon, meatballs, Jansson’s temptation and Christmas candy are served. If you would like to experience a traditional Christmas smorgasbord in a historic environment, Café Fägnan and Kaptensgården are two good options.

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you will find Gammelstad Church Town, one of Sweden’s twenty World Heritage Sites on UNESCO’s list of places worth preserving. Gammelstad actually used to be Luleå’s town centre up until the 17th century when the land uplift made it necessary to move the town closer to the coast, whereupon it got the name Luleå. Luleå’s history, however, began in Gammelstad. It was mainly the church, the largest late medieval stone church in Northern Sweden that served as a gathering place for the locals. Amazingly, the church was built in 1492, and is still standing to this day in the same place. Church cottages were built to house churchgoers who came from far away, as regular church attendance was mandated by law in Sweden. Today, there are over 400 church cottages and parish warehouses preserved in Gammelstad Church Town. j u s t o u t s i d e lu l e å

living church town tradition In the past, many people travelled from afar to the church in Gammelstad, one important occasion being the early Christmas Day service (swe: julotta). For many people, it meant many miles of travel by horse and sleigh. Today, the car has taken the horse’s place, but the tradition is still alive and the Christmas Day morning service has been partitioned to allow more people to take part. If you want to sleep in for a bit, missing the first service at half past five, you will get a second chance at seven o’clock. The julotta is just one of many major church celebrations and a small part of the living church town tradition.

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Living Sámi culture in Flakaberg If you would like to experience Sámi culture and meet Forest Sámi people, you should go to Årstidsfolket in Flakaberg. Anette and Lars welcome booked guests into their home, where you will get to hear true stories about what the lives of the Forest Sámi people used to be like, and how they are living today.

On their farm is a country store and you also get a chance to become acquainted with the reindeer of the farm, you can even stroke their soft snouts.

If you want to learn more about the indigenous Sámi people, there is more to read at www.samer.se/english and more to see at the Sámi and mountain life museum Ájtte in Jokkmokk.

In the winter, the church town is a quiet place to wander around and it’s easy to drift off into times gone by. If you would like to experience something out of the ordinary together with others, you can book a guided lantern walk. When darkness falls and a stable lantern is your only light, you can experience the church town just like it used to be in the past, and during the walk you will get to hear a story or two.

spring break fun at hägnan In the first week of March, the Hägnan Outdoor Museum will be organising outdoor activities for families. Come along on exciting fairy tale tours, try baking bread like they did it in times gone by, jump in the barn hay, make snow angels and try other fun winter activities for lively children, young and old alike.

When the winter dark has settled and the cold bites your cheeks, fire is celebrated in a magical Old Scandinavian feast, the Fire Feast at the Hägnan Outdoor Museum.

On the 25th of February, you can experience plays from the Viking Age and watch fire-eaters taming the fire. It could get a bit scary, so for the youngest in the audience, it’s best to have a hand to hold.

Photo: Anders Alm

the fire feast

Photo: Graeme Richardson

lantern walk

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To eat out,

OR TO EAT OUT? THAT IS THE QUESTION… has two different meanings in Luleå. Gorge yourself at one of the local gourmet restaurants, where skilled chefs cook raw ingredients from the region, offering you a taste palette from Swedish Lapland. You simply have to eat the delicious, nutritious game, reindeer and elk that have lived in the wild, enjoy game fish that have swum in pure, clear waters and let yourself be seduced by blueberries, cloudberries, arctic raspberries and lingonberries that have ripened in the midnight sun.

The White Guide recommends several of the city’s restaurants. The snug, classic Cooks Krog, the gourmand Bistro Norrland, the lively, high-quality Restaurant CG, and the stylishly handpicked Hemmagastronomi, where you can also buy various delicacies to take home from the well-assorted boutique. Don’t forget about the restaurants at the major hotels: the city’s best view is at Marcus Samuelsson’s Kitchen & Table, on the ninth floor of Clarion Hotel Sense.

At the newly opened Hotel Savoy you can listen to jazz with your meal on many nights of the week.

To eat out also has a different, more literal meaning here in Luleå – when the food is served outside. Nothing tastes quite as good as a meal cooked over an open fire, especially when it rounds off a day of great outdoor activities. A muurikka, a large frying pan, is often used to cook suovas (smoked reindeer meat) or palt (Swedish potato dumplings). Or you might get a grilled sausage and almost certainly – pot-boiled coffee. Pot-boiled coffee is a bit of a speciality and a regional trademark. The coffee is served hot in a wooden cup, strong and black – it warms and sharpens your senses.

Would you rather drink a latte, enjoy cafés and just feel the city atmosphere? Then you have come to the right place. There are a number of nice cafés and bakeries to choose from.

Don’t miss a bite of the classic Swedish pastry semla, a Lenten cream bun with an almond filling, traditionally eaten only during February.

One thing is for sure: good food and great company are important parts of the Luleå experience. Welcome to the table!

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Try barhopping in Luleå

Arctic char served at Bistro Norrland.

Close to nature’s own pantry In Luleå, nature’s own organic pantry is always close by. Reindeer and elk are the most popular game on the menu. Forest birds like great grouse, black grouse and ptarmigan are also common. The ptarmigan is a small mountain dwelling bird that moults in the winter, changing its speckled brown feathering to a beautiful, snowy white one. The lean ptarmigan meat has a characteristic wild taste and marries nicely with a rich red wine.

Our tasty game fish from the Bay of Bothnia, lakes, and the Lule River are salmon, arctic char, whitefish, perch and pike to name but a few. A popular way to cook whitefish is by smoking or broiling it. Buttered hard flatbread with smoked whitefish is a taste sensation that you must not miss. The orange gold – origin-labelled Kalix vendace roe, is also an absolute must. Vendace is fished in the Bothnian archipelago and along the coast between the localities of Piteå and Haparanda where the seawater is brackish.

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Drinks are mixed to perfection at Restaurant CG.

No matter if you like sport, or you prefer music, or maybe you just like hanging out, there are plenty of places to enjoy. We will guide you through a city bar tour: We will start at the top of Storgatan at Restaurant CG, with a wide selection of gin and rum based drinks. How about a Hemingway Mojito? Almost right next door you will find the sports bar Allstar where you can have a pint whilst watching the hockey game on over 40 bigscreen TVs. Continuing down Storgatan,

by Elite Stadshotellet, you will find The Bishop’s Arms, with Luleå’s largest selection of beer and whisky. Try their own beer, from Luleå’s only microbrewery pub or attend their beer tastings.

Then we will take a detour down to the North Harbour and Hemmagastronomi where the cocktail bar is open from the afternoon until late at night. In

a harbour warehouse further down you will find Bistro Norrland and here you can also treat yourself to a drink if you are visiting the Norrbottensteatern theatre next door.

Back on Storgatan again, we will drop by Roasters for a good cup of coffee or a coffee cocktail, an obvious choice at a place with their own coffee roaster.

If you are aiming for the stars, take another detour to Luleå’s only sky bar at Clarion Hotel Sense across the street from Kulturens Hus. Enjoy a good cocktail with a fantastic view of Luleå’s North Harbour and the rooftops.

For the jazz lover, we recommend Hotel Savoy and Jazzmatsalen at the end of Storgatan.

Here you can relax with something from the bar whilst listening to your favourite music. Like we said, Luleå has something to suit all tastes.

Local food dictionary:

MUURIKKA: Portable frying pan, reminiscent of a wok, for cooking dinner outdoors over an open fire.

KÅSA: Traditional wooden drinking or serving container, mainly used to drink coffee whilst out in the woods.

Forest mushrooms are also popular on the menu: porcinis, sand boletes and trumpet chanterelles. Inside the mountain Mjölkuddsberget is a unique shiitake mushroom farm. Juniper berries, blueberries and lingonberries growing in the coniferous forests, and sea buckthorn growing out in the archipelago, are picked to be made into jam, marmalade or lemonade.

Cloudberries grow on the marshes and taste wonderful served hot with cold vanilla ice cream. Our long, light summer nights make everything that grows explode with taste. Turnip rape is grown in Avan and from it, the world’s northernmost cooking oil is made, turnip rapeseed oil. The oil has a fresh and nutty taste and is darker than regular rapeseed oil.

If you want to buy local produce to take home, you can go to the wild game shop, Biergo, by the cathedral or to Hemmagastronomi in the North Harbour.

PALT: Swedish potato dumplings, balls of potato, flour and salt, sometimes filled with salted pork. Served with butter and lingonberry jam. If you eat too much, you can experience drowsiness, or, as the locals would call it, palt coma.

SURSTRÖMMING: Fermented Baltic herring served with boiled potatoes and onion, wrapped in flatbread. The smell when opening the can is quite peculiar but the taste is guaranteed to be far more pleasant, mostly salty.

KAFFEOST: Literally coffee cheese, squeaky cheese that is served diced right into a hot cup of coffee, instead of pastries.

Also makes a nice dessert, lightly fried and served with warm cloudberries.

GÁHKKU: Chewy Sámi flatbread that can be baked on a muurikka. Closely related to the other Northern Swedish flatbreads klådda and glödkaka.

SUOVAS: Lightly smoked reindeer meat, often salted to increase shelf life. Great for outdoor cooking.

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Fun and learning for the entire family

HAVE A DAY INDOORS

Fun with art, culture and science ‘Lady in Red’ is a nickname for Kulturens Hus in Luleå, the big red building with a beautiful panoramic view of the North Harbour. In addition to the library, you will also find an art gallery and a wide selection of different cultural and musical events. A few blocks away, in the former post office building, you will now find Vetenskapens hus (The House of Science), closely connected to Luleå University of Technology. In this large, airy meeting place you can visit popular open science talks on a range of interesting subjects whilst enjoying a cup of coffee or lunch from the restaurant Unik in the same building. Visit a local gallery like for example Lindbergs Konst & Ramar to see the creations of local artists.

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If both children and adults were to get tired of ice and snow, or if the weather gods are in a bad mood, there are plenty of indoor activities in Luleå. Have a day full of learning at Teknikens Hus, the local science centre, where you can take a guided tour into an underground mine or land an airplane. Visit Leo’s Lekland – jump and play around using all that stored-up energy after shopping at Storheden, or you can challenge the children to pool and bowling at O’Leary’s. If that’s not enough, the city has three indoor swimming pools.

Soon, everyone will be ready for more outdoor fun.

Luleå, the sports city Do as the locals do, visit sporting events and take in the atmosphere using all of your senses. Luleå has a strong local sports culture and everyone is proud of the professional teams, all at the top of their respective national leagues. In Coop Norrbotten Arena, the local ice hockey team, Luleå Hockey, draws close to 5,000 visitors to every game of the season. The fresh and mingle-friendly Luleå Energi Arena is filled by basketball fans when the home teams, Northland Basket (women) and LF Basket (men) play. Meeting for some food or a beer and watching a game together is another popular evening distraction in Luleå.

If it’s an away game, or if you would rather be at a bar than in an arena, you can visit the sports bars Allstar and O’Leary’s, which both show live games on several big screen TVs. DE ST I NAT I ONS OF SW E DI S H L A PL A ND LU L EÅ

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A WIDE SELECTION IN A COMPACT FORMAT

Buy a memory to take home If you would like to buy something locally produced, ‘typically Luleå’, we have a couple of good suggestions. A nice gift to yourself or for someone special. At the well-assorted Shop in Lapland in Gammelstad you will find art glassware, warm Lovvika mittens, lingonberry and cloudberry jam, sea buckthorn confectionaries, tin bracelets and other local crafts and Sami handicraft like wooden kåsor, amongst other things. Local culinary specialities like wild game and vendace roe can be found at the Hemmagastronomi deli or at the Biergos wild game shop. Scandinavian interior design can be found at Pentik, Klassisk form and Tati. A warming Luleå hat and photo albums about Luleå and Gammelstad can be found at the Tourist Information Office in Kulturens Hus or the Visitors’ Centre in Gammelstad.

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Shop ‘til you drop

are many and accessible, with more than 400 shops and malls. The main street, Storgatan, has three large malls: Smedjan, Shopping and Strand – warm hiding places if the cold is biting outside. Most of the major Swedish fashion brands are represented here and you will find a wide selection of fashion, accessories and shoes. A well-deserved break can be had at one of the cafés, or you could get your nails done, your hair done, or find new spectacle frames.

Going north from central Luleå, in the direction of Gammelstad, you will find many stores and shops specialising in construction, interior decoration, gardening and motor vehicles. Further away, at the Storheden shopping district you will find parking friendly shopping with major electronics, sports, interior decoration and pet stores. In Gammelstad Church Town there are cosy little boutiques with locally designed products, arts and crafts. s h o p p i n g o p t i o n s i n lu l e å

Isbiten af Luleå is designed by Eva Gunnarsdotter Björk together with Shop in Lapland, as a celebration of the winter city Luleå.

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Welcoming lobby at Hotel Savoy.

Welcome into the warmth

DESIGNED LUXURY AND RUSTIC CHARM

coming back into the snug, cosy warmth after a day full of winter adventures. Since Luleå is an old meeting place with a long tradition of welcoming hospitality, naturally, there is a wide selection of accommodation options, close to nature and in the midst of the city. You can start, or round off, your experience by exploring the city.

The hotels in Luleå conform to a high standard and you have a variety of options, major chains like Scandic, Elite and Choice as well as private options. The five-star Clarion Hotel Sense and Hotell Savoy, both with spa facilities, restaurants and bars, can be found in central Luleå. If you are looking for more affordable nothing is quite as good as

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options, there are several hostels and budget hotels to choose from. Rustic log house charm can be found both at Brändön Lodge out by the sea and at Nordkalotten Hotell, only a stone’s throw from the airport.

Why not make your stay even more exciting by making accommodation an adventure in itself?

The perfect way to become at one with nature, the forest, and silence. Maybe even get to be all alone with the Northern Lights dancing in the skies. Less than an hour from the airport and the city, there are several spectacular accommodation options close to nature, experiences that you will carry with you for a long time. Please hurry, come here – and let us take care of you whilst you visit.

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1 Cosy at scenic Brändön Brändön Lodge, about 20 kilometres outside central Luleå, offers snug and cosy living accommodation in newly renovated cabins situated in scenic surroundings. There is something to do for the entire family with a variety of activities such as snowmobile tours on the archipelago ice, cross-country skiing, dogsledding, ice fishing and of course a lot of fun and games to be had with snow and ice.

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Perfect for glamorous camping, so called glamping – with warming fires, cosy beds, cool champagne and the Northern Lights dancing in the skies.

CHARMING PLACES TO STAY JUST OUTSIDE OF TOWN

Make the transfer to your accommodation something exceptional. Jopikgården on the archipelagic island of Hindersön, for instance, can be reached by snowmobile transfer. Once there, you have a choice between beautiful, cosy hotel-standard double bedrooms in Mangårdsbyggnaden and four-bed rooms in Dränglängan. Sauna and relaxation facilities can be found in the old Bagarstugan.

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Photo: Graeme Richardson

Make an excursion to one of the coolest hotels in Sweden, in Harads, halfway to Jokkmokk from Luleå.

Stay in one of the uniquely designed rooms in the treetops, with names like Ufo and Mirrorcube. Or take a guided tour of the centuries-old pine forest and listen to the story of how the Treehotel became a reality. Local food can be found at Britta’s restaurant near the Treehotel.

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Take the opportunity to book a course in photography whilst staying at Aurora Safari Camp.

RELAX & ENJOY After a day outdoors in the fresh winter air, a spa treatment feels wonderful. The word spa is said to come from the expression “salus per aquam”, Latin for “health through water”. No matter if you would like a swimming pool, sauna or some other water-based form of relaxation together with a beauty treatment, Luleå has a wealth of options. Try the seasonal sauna at Clarion Sense or bubble in the Jacuzzi after a glass of bubbly at Hotell Savoy.

There are many options for massage and beauty treatments such as day spas, hairdressers, skin and beauty salons in the city. A visit to Luleå can definitely leave you feeling refreshed.

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PARK HOTELL Kungsgatan 10 +46 (0)920-21 11 49 www.parkhotell.se

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AMBER HOTELL Stationsgatan 67 +46 (0)920-102 00 www.amber-hotell.se

BRÄNDÖN LODGE +46 (0)920-741 00 info@brandokonferens.se www.brandokonferens.se

CLARION HOTEL SENSE Skeppsbrogatan 34, +46 (0)920-45 04 50, www.clarionsense.se

ELITE STADSHOTELLET LULEÅ Storgatan 15 +46 (0)920-27 40 00 www.elite.se

SUNDERBY HOTELL & CONFERENCE Kråkbergsvägen 7 +46 (0)920-26 66 48 www.sunderby.fhsk.se

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ÖRNVIK HOTEL & CONFERENCE Örnviksvägen 87 +46 (0)920-25 23 25 www.ornviken.se

HOTELL SAVOY Storgatan 59 +46 (0)920-195 00 info@hotellsavoy.se www.hotellsavoy.se

FIRST CAMP LULEÅ Arcusvägen 110 +46 (0)920-603 00 www.firstcamp.se/lulea

SCANDIC HOTEL & CONFERENCE Banvägen 3 +46 (0)920-27 64 00 lulea@scandichotels.com www.scandichotels.se

TREEHOTEL Harads, 80 km from Luleå. +46 (0)928-103 00 www.treehotel.com

KALASKULAN HOTEL Nordkalottstaden 2 B +46 (0)920-22 88 18 www.kalaskulan.se

AURORA SAFARI CAMP Lassbyn 217, Gunnarsbyn +46 (0)70-655 79 66 www.aurorasafaricamp.com

QUALITY HOTEL LULEÅ Storgatan 17 +46 (0)920-20 10 00 www.nordicchoicehotels.se

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Guesthouses MELDERSTEIN MANOR Melderstein 127, Råneå +46 (0)924-510 37 www.melderstein.se JOPIKGÅRDEN Hindersön 3, Hindersön +46 (0)920-600 12 www.jopik.nu

CITYSLEEP Skeppsbrogatan 18 +46 (0)920-42 00 02 www.citysleep.se GAMMELSTADS GÄSTHEM OCH VANDRARHEM Gamla Bodenvägen 11 +46 (0)920-25 40 00 www.gammelstadsgasthem.se TULLGATAN BED & BREAKFAST Tullgatan 16 +46 (0)920-104 80 www.tullgatan.se Photo: Katarina Nordström

COMFORT HOTEL ARCTIC Sandviksgatan 82 +46 (0)920-109 80 www.nordicchoicehotels.se/ comfort

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COOKS KROG +46 (0)920-20 10 25 Storgatan 17 q.lulea@choice.se www.cookskrog.se

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RESTAURANG WALDORF +46 (0)920-22 26 16 Skeppsbrogatan 28 www.restaurangwaldorf.se SUSHI & SALLADSBAR +46 (0)920-191 91 Storgatan 10 anders.hellman@gmail.com www.sushibar.nu UNIK KITCHEN & CAFÉ +46 (0)920-680 68 Storgatan 53 (Vetenskapens hus) boka.vetenskapenshus@ unikcafe.se www.unikcafe.se

We can guide you to the lovely little spots in the region, the culinary gems of Swedish Lapland. Places where you can enjoy meals cooked with local ingredients, or buy locally produced products to take home with you.

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Shops & local produce HJORTGÅRDEN Sandåkersvägen 3, Gammelstad +46 (0)920-804 70 hjortgarden@gmail.com www.gardsromantik.se Country romantic gift and interior decoration shop with a wide selection for children and adults.

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BIERGO Nygatan 10, Luleå +46 (0)76-826 47 60 catarina@biergo.se www.biergo.se Naturally wild ingredients.

Reindeer meat from Arvidsjaur.

KALLAX GÅRDSBUTIK Kallaxvägen 441, Kallax +46 (0)70-247 02 04 info@kallaxgardsbutik.se www.kallaxgardsbutik.se Interior decoration, beautifully fresh, charmingly worn and self-designed. Clothes, handicrafts and delicacies. Locally produced products, based on queen-of-the-meadow, etc.

KONST & HANTVERK Smedjegatan 13 +46 (0)920-21 14 93 info@konstochhantverk.se www.konstochhantverk.se Quality, design, artistry, and of course a Swedish Lapland touch to it all. Discover all the beautiful things from the region.

LINDBERGS KONST & RAM Skeppsbrogatan 46 +46 (0)920-22 94 92 www.lindbergskonst.se Local art gallery with mostly original art from local artists in different technics.

PENTIK Köpmanstorget Timmermansgatan 16 +46 (0)920-161 65 www.pentik.com Nordic style interior decoration.

HEMMAGASTRONOMI® DELI Norra Strandgatan 1 +46 (0)920-22 00 02 info@hemmagastronomi.se www.hemmagastronomi.se

Luleå’s little market hall. Here you will find everything you need to create culinary delicacies. Vegetables, ice cream, farm originlabelled tenderized meat, a cheese, fish and seafood counter.

SHOP IN LAPLAND Rutviksvägen 40, Gammelstad +46 (0)70-333 58 09 gunilla@shopinlapland.com www.shopinlapland.com Art Sámi crafts and handicrafts from the region – webshop and physical shop in Gammelstad Church Town.

NORDANSMAK Stationsgatan 25 B +46 (0)920-106 72 www.nordansmak.se Here you will find organic food, locally produced vegetables, cheese and sausage products.

TATI Skomakargatan 32 +46 (0)920-22 19 45 www.tati.nu Wallpapers, textiles and interior decoration.

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KLASSISK FORM Köpmantorget 1 +46 (0)920-127 00 info@klassiskform.se www.klassiskform.se Knowledge, quality and timelessness are core values.

Cooperates with Scandinavian designers as well as local and international artists.

ANTIKT OCH UNIKT I MÖRÖN Sakrislundsvägen 9, Mörön +46 (0)920-620 46 antiktochunikt@hotmail.com www.antiktochunikt.com Welcome to a cosy boutique full of beautiful antiques and new things alike!

BENSBYNS BRÖDBUTIK & CAFÉ Kungsgatan 24 +46 (0)920-160 06 www.bensbynsbrod.se An old-fashioned bread shop with artisan sourdough bread baked with organic flour in our stone oven bakery.

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HÄGNANS LANTHANDEL Gammelstad +46 (0)920-45 48 66 hagnan@kulturen.lulea.se www.lulea.se/hagnan Visit the store and you will be taken back to the 1940’s.

Household utilities, handicraft, toys, souvenirs and more.

ÖGONFRÖJD Kyrktorget 7, Gammelstad +46 (0)920-25 43 05 evaharnevik@hotmail.com The gift and design boutique for when you want something out of the ordinary.

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AVANS GÅRDSBUTIK Avans byaväg 18, Avan +46 (0)70-396 64 46 www.avansgardsbutik.se Sheep farm selling self-produced meat, sheepskin and wool products as well as art handicraft. Open according to agreement.

The Christmas market at Hägnan attracts a lot of visitors each year.

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CLARION HOTEL SENSE, DAGSPA Skeppsbrogatan 34 +46 (0)920-45 04 50 cl.sense@choice.se www.clarionsense.se/spa Offers a swimming pool with a panoramic view, a seasonal sauna and spa treatments.

BOTHNIA SLEDDOG ADVENTURES Örnabbsvägen 119, Luleå +46 (0)70-552 06 07 bsda@live.se An unforgettable experience in fantastic surroundings. Swiftly and silently we move through the beautiful winter landscape with 12–16 sled dogs, surrounded by forest and sea making this experience unique.

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Photo: Katarina Norström

Health and fitness

HOTELL SAVOY SPA Storgatan 59 +46 (0)920-195 00 info@hotellsavoy.se www.hotellsavoy.se Pool and relaxation facilities, as well as spa treatments.

ACTIC GYM Bastugatan 6–8 +46 (0)920-45 47 27 www.actic.se Large two-story gym at Pontusbadet in central Luleå.

Photo: Jennie Pettersson

HERMELINEN TRÄNING Sandviksgatan 60 +46 (0)920-40 23 00 traning@hermelinen.se www.hermelinen.se Gym and physical therapy.

INPULS Kyrkogatan 15 +46 (0)920-22 79 00 www.inpuls.nu A complete fitness centre with a fully equipped gym and several group workout sessions every day.

PONTUSBADET Bastugatan 6–8 +46 (0)920-45 32 72 www.lulea.se/pontusbadet Fitness swimming pool as well as a pool for children.

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BRÄNDÖN LODGE Brändökvarnsvägen 133 +46 (0)920-741 00 info@brandokonferens.se www.brandokonferens.se Snowmobile, hovercraft, pack ice safari, snowshoe tours, ski tours, go-kart, sauna and outdoor hot tub. Dinner on ice.

CREACTIVE ADVENTURE Överstbyn 234, Gunnarsbyn +46 (0)70-207 37 51 info@creactive-adventure.se www.creactive-adventure.se Snowmobile, driving on ice, dogsledding, snowshoe tours, expeditions, ice climbing.

EBBENJARKA Stora Antnäs träsk +46 (0)920-25 22 32 info@ebbenjarka.se www.ebbenjarka.se Snowmobile tours, snowcart, curling, ice driving and more.

LULEÅ GUIDED TOURS +46 (0)70-296 66 25 Thomas Vestin tomas@laplandtours.se www.laplandtours.se Guided tours including transfer to dogsledding, icebreakers, snowmobiling, cross-cart or Northern Lights tours around Luleå. Pickup from all Luleå hotels.

SVEDJEKOJAN Tranuträsk 70, Norrfjärden (50 km from Luleå) +46 (0)70-699 76 35 caisa@svedjekojan.se www.svedjekojan.se High tempo dogsled tours in a calm, scenic environment, tailored to the customer’s wishes.

VISIT RÅNE RIVER Råne älvdal +46 (0)70-34 94 287 info@visitraneriver.se www.visitraneriver.com Snowmobile tours along Malmens väg, winter fishing, dogsledding and more.

Other activities ICE MUSIC Gültzauudden, Luleå www.icemusic.se A concert hall featuring concerts with unique musical instruments made of ice.

O’LEARYS Västra Varvsgatan 25 +46 (0)920-22 85 80 lulea@olearys.se www.olearys.se/lulea Bowling.

ICE DRIVING BY TINSEAU Ebbenjarka, Stora Antnäs träsk +33 6 45 56 76 25 contact@icedriving-institute. com www.icedriving-institute.com Drive a Porsche on an ice track, assisted by French professional instructors.

ISDIMMA HUSKY ADVENDTURES Sörbyn 110, Gunnarsbyn +46 (0)70-956 15 88 isdimma©live.se www.isdimma.com Shorter tours and longer expeditions in the Råne River Valley, with Siberian huskies.

SEGWAY Varvsgatan 71 +46 (0)920-21 12 22 lulea@segway.se www.segwayinorr.se Segway rental in Luleå. Winter tyres are used in the winter.

THE ROADHOUSE Kallaxvägen 255 +46 (0)920-875 00 info@theroadhouse.se www.theroadhouse.se Paintballing, ice bowling, hot tub, sauna and more. ÄVENTYRSBUTIKEN HÄGGLUNDS Storgatan 26 +46 (0)920-156 40 info@aventyrsbutiken.se www.aventyrsbutiken.se Ice skate and cross-country ski rental.

Skiing MÅTTSUND Skidbacksvägen 45, +46 (0)920-343 05 info@mattsundsbacken.se www.mattsundsbacken.se Downhill skiing and snowboarding, about 20 kilometres from Luleå. Ski equipment rental.

ORMBERGET www.lulea.se/ormberget An extensive system of illuminated cross-country ski tracks, for leisure skiers and professionals alike. The downhill slope is open evenings and weekends.

RÅNEKÖLEN +46 (0)924-575 00 info@frilufts-ranea.se www.frilufts-ranea.se Downhill ski slope.

Spectator sports LULEÅ HOCKEY Ostrongatan 2 www.luleahockey.se The local ice hockey team play their home games at Coop Norrbotten Arena.

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BASKETBALL IN LULEÅ Luleå Energi arena www.northlandbasket.com www.lfbasket.com Home stadium to the professional teams Northland Basket (women) and LF Basket (men).

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Activities THE F 21 AVIATION MUSEUM +46 (0)70-524 85 85 www.flygmuseetf21.se The aviation museum lies outside the guard at the Norrbotten Air Wing. Exhibitions describe aerial defence from the 1940’s onwards. There is also a ‘Viggen’ fighter jet simulator here.

Planes and helicopters used by the wing, as well as rescue vehicles, radar stations and aerial surveillance towers are on display.

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THE HÄGNAN OUTDOOR MUSEUM Gamla Hamngatan 21, Gammelstad +46 (0)920-45 46 22 hagnan@lulea.se www.lulea.se/hagnan Hägnan is an outdoor cultural history museum. Experience how people used to live in the rural areas of the region.

A 1940’s style country store.

Try activities such as baking.

Photo: Fredrik Broman/humanspectra.com

LULEÅ TOURIST INFORMATION OFFICE Skeppsbrogatan 17, Kulturens Hus +46 (0)920-45 70 00 turistbyra@lulea.se www.lulea.nu Luleå offers fine opportunities for winter fishing/pimpling.

Contact the Tourist Information Office at Kulturens Hus for more information about where you can get equipment and where you can go fishing.

LEOS LEKLAND Handelsvägen 19 +46 (0)920-25 75 05 leoslekland@telia.com www.leoslekland.se Scandinavia’s largest chain of children’s amusement parks.

We have lots of space for fun, games and adventure for children aged 1 and older.

TEKNIKENS HUS Teknikens Hus Väg +46 (0)920-49 22 01 info@teknikenshus.se www.teknikenshus.se Sweden’s northernmost science centre. Discover the technology that surrounds us, explore together or by yourself.

Culture / museums THE CATHEDRAL Nygatan 10 +46 (0)920-26 48 00 www.svenskakyrkan.se/lulea Construction of Luleå Cathedral began after the large fire in Luleå in 1887. It is a brick building in neo-Gothic style. It was designated a cathedral in 1904, following the formation of Luleå Diocese.

NEDERLULEÅ CHURCH Församlingsvägen 12 +46 (0)920-27 70 00 www.svenskakyrkan.se/ nederlulea Northern Sweden’s largest late medieval stone church from the late 15th century, lavishly ornamented with Albertus Pictor frescos amongst other things.

KULTURENS HUS Skeppsbrogatan 17 +46 (0)920-45 30 00 www.kulturenshus.com Centrally situated in Luleå’s North Harbour close to shopping, entertainment and accommodation. The building is 14,000 m2 large and houses the city library, an art gallery, a tourist information office, conference facilities, a small and a large concert hall, multifunctional foyers on three levels as well as a café and a restaurant.

THE KULTURENS HUS ART GALLERY Skeppsbrogatan 17 +46 (0)920-45 40 80 konstens.hus@lulea.se www.kulturenshus.com Art gallery with contemporary art, primarily from Sweden but also from other countries.

Around 20 exhibitions per year with a total exhibition space of 500 m2.

Photo: Thord Nilsson

Winter fishing

ROKKAS, Lansån, Överkalix +46 (0)926-260 18, ola.rokka@rokkas.se, www.rokkas.se Experience Sámi culture and reindeer.

NORRBOTTENS MUSEUM Storgatan 2 +46 (0)920-24 35 02 norrbottens.museum@nll.se www.norrbottensmuseum.se Various exhibitions such as ‘Ralph Erskine’, ‘Hosta’ (Swedish for ‘Cough’), about the tuberculosis outbreak in Northern Sweden. An ‘Old times’ section where children can play. A shop and café.

VETENSKAPENS HUS Storgatan 53 www.ltu.se/ltu/vetenskapens-hus-i-lulea This building that used to be a post office was constructed in 1953 and designed by the Chief Architect of the Swedish Postal Services, Lars-Erik Lallerstedt. Vetenskapens hus is now operated by Luleå University of Technology, who organise popular science lectures, amongst other things.

VISITOR CENTRE: EXHIBITION, INFO & GUIDED TOURS IN THE GAMMELSTAD WORLD HERITAGE SITE Kyrktorget 1, Gammelstad +46 (0)920-45 70 10 gammelstad@lulea.se www.lulea.se/gammelstad Gammelstad Church Town has been listed as a World Heritage Site by UNESCO since 1996, meaning that it is covered by the Convention for Protection of Cultural and Natural Heritage.

More than 400 privately owned church cottages grouped around the late medieval stone church. Guided tours start at the Visitor Centre. ÅRSTIDSFOLKET Flakaberg 40, Gunnarsbyn +46 (0)925-330 23 +46 (0)70-548 30 23 Experience Forest Sámi traditions and reindeer herding.

Tourist information At the Luleå Tourist Information Office, we will help you plan your visit to Luleå. We are happy to give advice on sights to see, places to stay and activities in and around Luleå. We can also help you book accommodation and activities. Here you can buy fishing licenses, tourist bus cards, books, maps and souvenirs and get information about parking in the city.

The Luleå Tourist Information Office can be found on the ground floor of Kulturens Hus in central Luleå, and we are open all year round. If you would rather find information by yourself, or if you visit Kulturens Hus when we are not open, there is a tourist information computer outside our entrance. Welcome!

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Welcome to Sweden’s northernmost destination!

In Swedish Lapland you will find unique arctic experiences. Thanks to the warm Gulf Stream, here high up by the Arctic Circle, you can experience seasons with great contrasts between polar nights with sparkling northern lights in a white winter landscape and warm summers filled with swimming and hundred days without night under the midnight sun. In the east – a 300-km coastal stretch facing the world’s largest brackish water archipelago, with thousands of islands. Sandy beaches, fishing camps and unique produce. In the west – vast mountains, brooks with water so clean you can drink from them and lots of adventures around the corner. In between the quiet, enigmatic, open-handed forest and river valleys from Skellefte River in the south to Torne River in the north-east, all with their unique distinctive characteristics to offer. Traditions and cultures are strong here, and love of nature is even stronger. This is our everyday-life, and we invite you to share it with us. www.swedishlapland.com Visit Luleå is a member-owned organisation that works to further trade, meetings and reasons to travel to Luleå. Our mission is to make Luleå known as a living, competitive and attractive city of commerce, close to people, nature, the archipelago and activities.

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Idea, text & graphic design: Swedish Lapland Visitors Board & Visit Luleå • Cover photo: Elin Thorsell, ice violin player. Photo: Graeme Richardson • Illustrated map: Lisa Wallin • www.swedishlaplandvisitorsboard.com

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