Lund
Since deceptive clouds prevented us from laying on the beach today, mom and I went exploring instead. Our destination was one of Landskrona's neighbouring cities, Lund. Lund is one of the oldest cities in Sweden and very rich in history and culture; the city is held to have been founded around 990, when the Scanian lands (Skåne) belonged to Denmark. It soon became the Christian center of Northern Europe with an archbishop and with the towering Lund Cathedral, built in the eleventh century. Outside of religion, Lund is probably most well known because of the prominent Lund University, one of Europe's oldest universities.
Lund must be one of Sweden's bike friendliest cities, or at least one of the cities with the most amount of bikes. When you walk around Lund, you better watch out for the two-wheelers; they are fast and show pedestrians no mercy. These bikes are parked by the train station.
A house next to the train station, with beautiful flowers on one of the balconies.
During the two semesters I took classes in Lund, I walked up and down this street every day. Being back, I realize how much I miss it.
Another of Lund's cobble stoned streets.
It's a beautiful city.
It's hard to believe, but this is one of the main streets cutting through central Lund. Over the tree tops, you see the steeples of the majestic Cathedral of Lund.
The Cathedral is almost one thousand years old; the building began in 1080.
The Cathedral is still the most famous landmark of Lund and huge compared to the buildings around. It's not difficult to imagine how mighty it must have been to the people who lived here when it was built.
This building, just next to the Cathedral, is the oldest part of Lund University. The university was founded in 1666 and is the second oldest within Sweden's present borders, but the house dates back further than that.
Mom as my guide, reading the information loud.
Today, Kungshuset houses the Department of Philosophy. Not a bad place to go to school.
The newer University buildings are not lacking in beauty either. This is the back of one of the wings of the main building.
Cobblestones, cobblestones. Another quiet alley.
To satisfy our sophisticated side, we visited kulturen, the biggest museum in the region and the second oldest open-air museum in the world. This beautiful rune stone stands outside the entrance.
Traditional houses for the region.
An old smithy / stable.
A door knock, model older.
A typical house a couple of hundred years ago. It looks like the home of a hobbit.
One building housed a toy-museum. My favorite in the collection was King Carl XII's rocking horse. Isn't it beautiful? Now I know what I want for my next birthday.
A butterfly shows her splendor.
The last stop of the day was Mormors Bageri (grandmother's bakery), where we enjoyed over priced cappuccinos and looked at all sorts of strange people passing by.
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Postat av: mom
Thank you for a lovely day åsa I enjoyed to have my yongest daughther as a companion.
Postat av: J.
Jättemysig stad. Ska oxå ta mig dit en dag på min semester och strosa runt.
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