Everyone prefers to spend their holidays according to their own scenario. Someone likes native beauties and a boarding house in the nearest region, someone travels thousands of kilometers to see the exotic with their own eyes and taste hitherto unknown dishes. Those who are attracted and fascinated by the beauty of the northern nature, sometimes gloomy, but such an attractive Baltic Sea, are waiting for the small Swedish port city of Lulea, built in the fjord of the Gulf of Bothnia, in the north-eastern part of the country. Check ANDYEDUCATION.COM to learn more about Sweden.
How to get there
Getting there is easy. First, by plane to Stockholm (there are regular flights from Moscow and St. Petersburg), and then a little less than a day by train or about an hour and a half by plane. It is worth considering that meals are not included in the ticket price, but for an additional fee, tourists will be offered sandwiches, cookies, and drinks on board.
Transport
Luleå is a small town, so walking is quite feasible. In addition, the bus network is very convenient and economical. By the way, you can save even more on trips if you buy a three-day ticket at the tourist office, which gives you the right to an unlimited number of trips. If you need to get to the airport late in the evening, at night or early in the morning, a taxi service with comfortable cars and punctual drivers will help out. Fans of outdoor activities will benefit from the offers of bike rental companies.
Lulea Hotels
Despite the rather modest size of the city, there are several hotels in Lulea, mostly family-type. All of them: Hotell Aveny, Elite Stadshotellet Lulea, Comfort Hotel Lulea, Quality Hotel Lulea, Scandic Lulea, Hotell Amber – offer guests free breakfast and Wi-Fi, fitness center or sauna services, hairdressing salon. Many of them have bars, restaurants and even business centers with meeting rooms on their territory. Tourists from all over the world are welcomed by multilingual staff, and if necessary, they are invited to use the exchange office without leaving the hotel. Also at the service of tourists are campsites on the coast and ascetic, but comfortable and fairly cheap rooms in the city center.
Cuisine and restaurants
You can have a quick bite to eat in pizzerias, pancakes and small cafes, of which there are plenty in the city. Both in hotels and in addition to them, there are many good restaurants in Luleå, where you should definitely try all kinds of delights from the freshest seafood and fish, as well as try national dishes – pork sausage, black pudding with berry compote, jelly and many, many gastronomic joys.
Shopping and stores
It will not be difficult to organize a dense shopping even in this not the biggest city, in the very center of Luleå there is a very large shopping center where the soul of a shopaholic will find everything from stylish and high-quality clothes, shoes and accessories, to furniture, ideas for the garden and even cars.
Entertainment and attractions in Lulea
The most significant attraction, which is even mentioned in the UNESCO World Heritage List, is the church town of Hamelstad. Its “heart” is a miraculously preserved wooden church, founded in the 15th century. It is surrounded by more than four hundred wooden houses, which were built for the overnight stay of far-living parishioners. Many of them function to this day, allowing you to fully experience the flavor of history. Nearby is the tallest building in the city – the Centenary Church, made in neo-Gothic style. Its dome soared to a height of 67 meters.
Admirers of various historical and ethnographic expositions, exhibitions of modern photography are waiting in one of the largest museums in the country – Norrbotten. There is also a lot of information about the Sami and Swedish Lapland (Lulea is considered the gateway to this part of it). You can continue the “educational” excursions by visiting the northernmost university in the country, where tourists become spectators and participants in various experiments in the extraction of minerals, control of an airplane or train, and learn about the nature of various cataclysms.
If travelers are fluent in Swedish, they will be interested in visiting the performances that are given in the Luleå theater.
Fans of dancing will certainly like the nightly dance clubs Cleo, Grace Nattklubb and STUK, located in the city center.
Fans of hiking are invited to wander along the pedestrian promenade and admire the autumn panorama of the bay and its surroundings, and in the summer to soak up the beaches or take a trip to the wonderful NordPoolen water park. And in Luleå you can admire the incredible beauty of the aurora borealis – the Arctic Circle is just a stone’s throw away, a little more than one and a half hundred kilometers.
Lulea is a city by the sea, which has amazingly beautiful nature, deep history and rich cultural heritage.
