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sweden as a country for tourists.
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Tourist-centres apd tourist-routes. Among the most important of these
may be mentioned tshe following in the southern, central and northern parts
of the country.
1. South Sweden. If by South Sweden we mean that part of the country
lying south of the 58th degree of latitude, with the addition of the strip of
Bohuslän coast along the Skagerrak, we obtain a district whose fundamental
natural features are different from those of the north of the country, and which
contain a large number of tourist-centres of the most varied description.
Photo. B. Onr.iNG, Stockholm.
The River Norrström, Stockholm.
The most southerly part of this district consists of Skåne, the most thickly
populated and richest province of Sweden, whose fertile plains lie framed in
beech-forests and lines of low hills (Sw. åsar), which attain heights of up
to 200 meters. The most noteworthy of these heights are: Kullaberget or
Kullen, a hill whose steep, splintered cliffs project between the Sound and
the Kattegat, and which is a much frequented tourist-centre. North of Kullen,
on the boundary of Halland, a still higher ridge runs out into the sea, and
here we have another much favoured seaside-place called Båstad. The
remainder of the Skåne coast is, in general, a low, sandy shore, offering splendid
opportunities for good bathing. Falsterbo and Ystad are the principal seaside-places
here.
The Sound (Öresund), which separates Sweden and Denmark, and which, at
its northern extremity, narrows to a breadth of only a very few kilometers, is
one of the most beautiful and liveliest waterways in the world. In the Sound
lies the island of Ven, where the celebrated astronomer, Tycho Brahe, had his
observatory. In the narrowest part of the Sound lies the beautiful city of
Hälsingborg. The town possesses a mineral spring, while not far off we have
the watering-place and wells of Ramlösa.
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