Manufacturing town 69 km (43 miles) east of Gothenburg. The centre of the country's textile industry, it was founded in 1622.
Population 99 963
Trelleborg
Seaport on the southwest coast about 30 km (18 miles) south of Malmo. It was founded in the 13th century and is now the main ferry port link with Germany.
Population 34 100
Linkoping
Industrial city, 198 km (123 miles) southwest of Stockholm. It was an important religious centre in the middle Ages and has a magnificent 12th to 15th-century cathedral. It manufactures cars, aircraft and railway rolling stock.
Population 116 834
Norrkoping
Industrial seaport on a Baltic inlet 157 km (98 miles) southwest of Stockholm. Founded in the 14th century, it was burnt by the Russians in 1710 during the Great Northern War of 1700-21. Its manufactures include paper, woolen textiles, chemicals, rubber, and radio and television sets.
Locals hypothesize that the legacy of Italian blood and culture in Cologne, colonized by the Romans more than 1500 years ago, makes the people more jovial and lighthearted. Cologne is the largest city on the Rhine.
Kolsch is not only the dialect spoken here but, also the name of their own top-fermented beer. There are more than 4,000 pubs, restaurant's and brewery taverns in Cologne.
Unlike many of the world's large cities, Cologne, with a population of over a million, gets better every day, there are more things to do and see, more new and innovative buildings... more
Travel is an opportunity to learn, whether geography, languages, history or other subjects.
Cologne is situated on the beautiful Rhine River.