• Sweden Guide

  • Introduction to Sweden
  • Things not to miss
  • Weather
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  • Getting Around
  • Public Holidays

• Explore Sweden

  • Stockholm
  • Around Stockholm
  • Gothenburg
  • Around Gothenburg
  • The southwest
  • The southeast
  • The Bothnian coast
  • Central and northern Sweden

• Cities

  • Gävle
    
  • Gothenburg
    
  • Stockholm
    
  • Umeå
    
  • Ystad
    

Sweden Guide

The southwest

Helsingborg

• Accommodation
• Cafés and restaurants
• Bars and clubs

Long gone are the days when the locals of HELSINGBORG joked that the most rewarding sight here was Helsingør, the Danish town whose castle (best known as the "Elsinore" of Shakespeare's Hamlet) is clearly visible just 4km away over the Öresund. With its beautifully developed harbour area, an explosion of brilliantly styled bars, cafés and restaurants both at the water's edge and among the warren of cobbled old-town streets, and an excellent museum, Helsingborg is one of the best urban bases Sweden has to offer: bright, pleasing and basking in a tremendous sense of buoyancy.