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Lund is a small city in the south-west Swedish province of Skåne, boasting about 100,000 inhabitants and a major Scandinavian university. The town was founded around AD 990, and incorporates over a thousand years of history in its small city centre. Lund is very easily accessible by rail, being a major transit hub for the south-west.
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The Domkirke dates back to the eleventh century, and has a medieval crypt that’s free to tour. Keep an eye open for the skull-and-crossbones motif that’s so prevalent in Swedish religious art.
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There’s really high-quality graffiti along the rail lines leading into and out of Lund. My favourites are along the line to Malmö.
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If you’re a serious scholar of history, you can probably give the Lund History Museum a miss, but definitely swing by Kulturen (http://www.kulturen.com/eng/index.htm), the largest museum in Skåne. They have artefacts from the major archaeological digs in the area around Lund, and the grounds are the home of historical buildings from all over southern Sweden.
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Accommodation is quite expensive, so I stayed at a friend’s flat for the week I was in Sweden. If you don’t have that option, there are a few hostels in town; the tourist office in the railway station has information, as does the municipal website (http://www.lund.se/).
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The Lund University campus is home to dozens of rooks, and the trees are filled with their croaks and caws. Say hello to Hugin and Munin.
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Ebbas Skafferi (http://www.ebbasskafferi.com) on Bytaregatan has fantastic food at reasonable prices (for Scandinavia). I had a large plate of lasagne and a mocha for 90:-, and that was one of the more expensive items I could have ordered. Both were fantastic, as are their desserts. Emma’s Café on Lilla Fiskaregatan has an amazing salmon bagel for under 50:-, and it was at least as good as any I’ve had in New York. On Allhelgonas Kyrkogatan, there are a Persian and a vegetarian restaurant about which I’ve also heard good things, but didn’t have time to try them.
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Part of the surviving medieval rampart is visible in the Stadsparken to the south of the railway station, but it's nowhere near as impressive as the walls of York.
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Published on Monday April 3th, 2006 by ragnvaeig
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