Insight Guides Scandinavia (Travel Guide eBook)

Insight Guides

Description

Insight Guide to Scandinavia is a pictorial travel guide in a magazine style providing answers to the key questions before or during your trip: deciding when to go to Scandinavia, choosing what to see, from exploring postcard-pretty Bergen to discovering Finland's A°land archipelago or creating a travel plan to cover key places like Copenhagen, Oslo, Helsinki and Stockholm. This is an ideal travel guide for travellers seeking inspiration, in-depth cultural and historical information about Scandinavia as well as a great selection of places to see during your trip.

The Insight Guide Scandinavia covers: Copenhagen, Zealand, Bornholm, Funen, Jutland, Greenland, The Faroe Islands, Oslo, Bergen, Norway's Northwest Coast, Norway's Far North, Stockholm, Gotland, Sweden's West Coast, Sweden's Great Lakes, Dalarna, Central Sweden, Northern Sweden, Helsinki, Southern Finland, A°land Islands, Turku, Tampere, Finland's Lakeland, Finland's West Coast, Karelia, Kuusamo, Finnish Lapland

In this travel guide you will find:

IN-DEPTH CULTURAL AND HISTORICAL FEATURES  
Created to explore the culture and the history of Scandinavia to get a greater understanding of its modern-day life, people and politics

BEST OF
The top attractions and Editor's Choice highlighting the most special places to visit around Scandinavia.

CURATED PLACES, HIGH QUALITY MAPS
Geographically organised text cross-referenced against full-colour, high quality travel maps for quick orientation in Zealand, Bornholm, Bergen, Gotland and many more locations in Scandinavia.

COLOUR-CODED CHAPTERS
Every part of Scandinavia, from Denmark to Norway, Sweden and Finland has its own colour assigned for easy navigation.

TIPS AND FACTS
Up-to-date historical timeline and in-depth cultural background to Scandinavia as well as an introduction to Scandinavia's Food and Drink and fun destination-specific features.  

PRACTICAL TRAVEL  INFORMATION
A-Z of useful advice on everything from when to go to Scandinavia, how to get there and how to get around, as well as Scandinavia's climate, advice on tipping, etiquette and more.  

STRIKING PICTURES
Features inspirational colour photography, including the stunning Faroe Islands and the spectacular Finnish Lapland.

Sujets

• Estocolmo
• Dinamarca
• Sweden
• Northern Europe
• Travel
• Scandinavia
• Finland
• Copenhagen
• Suède
• Norway
• Denmark
• Scandinavie
• Copenhague
• Stockholm
• Oslo
• Finlande
• Europe

Informations

• Publié par: Apa Publications
• Date de parution: 01 septembre 2022
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9781839053450
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 25 Mo

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How To Use This E-Book

Getting around the e-book
This Insight Guide e-book is designed to give you inspiration for your visit to Scandinavia, as well as comprehensive planning advice to make sure you have the best travel experience. The guide begins with our selection of Top Attractions, as well as our Editor’s Choice categories of activities and experiences. Detailed features on history, people and culture paint a vivid portrait of contemporary life in Scandinavia. The extensive Places chapters give a complete guide to all the sights and areas worth visiting. The Travel Tips provide full information on getting around, activities from culture to shopping to sport, plus a wealth of practical information to help you plan your trip.
In the Table of Contents and throughout this e-book you will see hyperlinked references. Just tap a hyperlink once to skip to the section you would like to read. Practical information and listings are also hyperlinked, so as long as you have an external connection to the internet, you can tap a link to go directly to the website for more information.
Maps
All key attractions and sights in Scandinavia are numbered and cross-referenced to high-quality maps. Wherever you see the reference [map] just tap this to go straight to the related map. You can also double-tap any map for a zoom view.
Images
You’ll find hundreds of beautiful high-resolution images that capture the essence of Scandinavia. Simply double-tap on an image to see it full-screen.
About Insight Guides
Insight Guides have more than 40 years’ experience of publishing high-quality, visual travel guides. We produce 400 full-colour titles, in both print and digital form, covering more than 200 destinations across the globe, in a variety of formats to meet your different needs.
Insight Guides are written by local authors, whose expertise is evident in the extensive historical and cultural background features. Each destination is carefully researched by regional experts to ensure our guides provide the very latest information. All the reviews in Insight Guides are independent; we strive to maintain an impartial view. Our reviews are carefully selected to guide you to the best places to eat, go out and shop, so you can be confident that when we say a place is special, we really mean it.
© 2022 Apa Digital AG and Apa Publications (UK) Ltd

Table of Contents
Scandinavia’s Top 20 Attractions
Editor’s Choice - The Best of Scandinavia
Introduction: Northerly Neighbours
A Wild Land
Decisive Dates
Beginnings
Insight: Medieval Thugs or Merchant Traders?
War and Peace
The Modern Age
The Danes
The Norwegians
The Swedes
The Finns
The Active Life
Art and Culture
Food and Drink
Introduction: Places
Introduction: Denmark
Copenhagen
Insight: A Flair for Design: Function with Form
Zealand
Bornholm
Funen
Jutland
Greenland
The Faroe Islands
Introduction: Norway
Oslo and Its Fjord
Southern Norway
Bergen
The Heart of Norway
Insight: Norway’s Most Beautiful Voyage
The Northwest Coast
Norway’s Far North
Introduction: Sweden
Stockholm
Insight: Steaming out among the Skerries
Southern Sweden
Sweden’s West Coast
Sweden’s Great Lakes
Dalarna
Central Sweden
Northern Sweden
Introduction: Finland
Helsinki
Insight: The Traditional Finnish Sauna
Southern Finland
Turku
Finland’s Lakeland
Finland’s West Coast
Karelia and Kuusamo
Finnish Lapland
Denmark A-Z
Norway A-Z
Sweden A-Z
Finland A-Z
SCANDINAVIA TOP 20 ATTRACTIONS

Top Attraction 1

Fjords. Norway’s breathtaking fjords are an experience not to be missed. The Hurtigruten coastal steamships make 34 ports of call, heading way up north from Bergen to the North Cape and Kirkenes. For more information, click here .
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Top Attraction 2

Stockholm. Europe’s first Green Capital floats on 14 islands; visit Gamla Stan, a medieval maze of alleyways and enchanting architecture. For more information, click here .
Julian Love/Apa Publications

Top Attraction 3

Vigeland Sculpture Park, Oslo. An open-air sculpture park filled with huge, arresting figures, many writhing and tumbling, in Vigeland’s fantastic vision of humanity. A favourite with Oslo inhabitants. For more information, click here .
Glyn Genin/Apa Publications

Top Attraction 4

Orsa Björnpark, Sweden. Old honeypaws, the King of the Forest, is a shy creature in the wild: this park offers a great chance to see brown bears and their cubs up close. For more information, click here .
Grönklittsgruppen AB

Top Attraction 5

Bohuslän Coast. Sunworshippers flock to the sandy beaches of Bohuslän in summer, or take to sailing boats and kayaks to explore thousands of offshore islands, skerries, rocks and reefs. For more information, click here .
Julian Love/Apa Publications

Top Attraction 6

Åland Islands. Explore this lush collection of islands off the west coast of Finland by bike. For more information, click here .
Ari Karttunen/EMMA

Top Attraction 7

Helsinki. Discover great works by the masters of Finnish art at the Ateneum, one among many great museums in the capital, then head for the galleries and boutiques of the design district. For more information, click here and click here .
Visit Åland/Dieter Meyer

Top Attraction 8

Bergen. Norway’s most beautiful city sits on a craggy shoreline surrounded by hills, and makes an ideal base for a fjord holiday. A highlight of any visit is a summer concert at Troldhaugen, the former villa of composer Edvard Grieg. For more information, click here .
Glyn Genin/Apa Publications

Top Attraction 9

Turku. Finland’s oldest city and medieval capital, the “cradle of Finnish culture” brims with history and vitality. For more information, click here .
Gregory Wrona/Apa Publications

Top Attraction 10

Icefjord, Disko Bay, Greenland. Countless icebergs calve from Greenland’s most productive glacier and float out to sea in a glinting parade at this Unesco World Heritage site, near Ilulissat. For more information, click here .
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Top Attraction 11

Medieval Trondheim. Norway’s ancient capital and its thirdlargest city is steeped in history and atmosphere. For more information, click here .
Glyn Genin/Apa Publications

Top Attraction 12

Porvoo. An elegant Finnish town, with a gorgeous riverside setting and a rich cultural heritage. In winter, with its low wooden houses set against the snow, their chimneys expelling smoke, it exudes a fairy-tale atmosphere. For more information, click here .
Visit Finland

Top Attraction 13

Frederiksborg Slot, Hillerød. Scandinavia’s largest Renaissance castle, built across three islands in the middle of a lake, comes straight from the pages of a children’s storybook. For more information, click here .
Getty Images

Top Attraction 14

Bornholm. A well-kept Danish secret, the island of Bornholm is the sunniest place in Scandinavia. Hire a bicycle and explore its rugged coastline and unique medieval round churches. For more information, click here .
Corbis

Top Attraction 15

Inlandsbanan. This historic railway runs from Sweden’s heartland right into the Arctic Circle, stopping at tiny stations for meals, and to shoo reindeer off the tracks. For more information, click here .
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Top Attraction 16

Northern Lights. The eerie aurora borealis billows like smoke and streaks like silent fireworks across the winter skies in Greenland and Arctic Scandinavia. Experience them in Tromsø, “Gateway to the Arctic”, and Norway’s far north. For more information, click here .
B Jorgensen/Visit Norway

Top Attraction 17

Viking Ship Museum, Roskilde. State-of-the-art ships and superb seafaring knowledge swept the Vikings to success: this excellent museum contains five original Viking vessels, and lets visitors row a reconstruction around the fjord. For more information, click here .
Rudy Hemmingsen/Apa Publications

Top Attraction 18

Bog bodies, Jutland. Denmark’s peaty soil has preserved some of Europe’s most remarkable archaeological finds, like the 2,000-year-old bodies of Tollund Man and Grauballe Man, now in Silkeborg and Moesgaard museums. For more information, click here .
Visit Denmark

Top Attraction 19

Kungsleden Trail. Sweden’s most famous longdistance walking path wends its way through the mountains of Lapland, through dark forests and broad green valleys scattered with Alpine flowers. For more information, click here and click here .
Getty Images

Top Attraction 20

Visby, Gotland. Turreted walls encircle this medieval Hanseatic trading town, full of crooked houses, cobbled streets and rose-covered ruins. In August, troubadours and jousting knights bring the past to life during the Medeltidsveckan festival. For more information, click here .
Swedish Tourist Board
EDITOR’S CHOICE - THE BEST OF SCANDINAVIA

Outdoor Adventures

Husky safaris, reindeer-sledging and snowmobiling (Finland) . Explore Lapland’s icy wastes in classic fashion, driven along by a team of huskies or reindeer, or hop on a skidoo. For more information, click here .
Cycling (Denmark) . Flat countryside and fabulous bike paths make Denmark a cycling dream. Try Bornholm island for a taste of two-wheeled freedom in idyllic surrounds. For more information, click here .
Cross-country skiing (Oslo, Norway) . The Oslomarka area has an incredible 2,500km (1,500 miles) of cross-country skiing trails. For more information, click here .
Sailing (Sweden) . Experience the joy of sailing the Stockholm archipelago on a full-day sailing adventure in a historic schooner or a modern luxury yacht. For more information, click here .
Bear-watching (Finland) . Get up close and be mesmerised by Finland’s brown bears in their natural habitat. For more information, click here .
Hiking (Norway) . Scandinavia offers plenty of exceptional hiking, b