8 Sights in Helsingborg, Sweden (with Map and Images)
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Welcome to your journey through the most beautiful sights in Helsingborg, Sweden! Whether you want to discover the city's historical treasures or experience its modern highlights, you'll find everything your heart desires here. Be inspired by our selection and plan your unforgettable adventure in Helsingborg. Dive into the diversity of this fascinating city and discover everything it has to offer.
1. Henckelska gården
Henckelska gården is a listed trading house from the 1600s located on Norra Storgatan in Helsingborg. It gets its current name from the merchant Fredrik Wilhelm Henckel who owned the farm in the mid-1800s.
2. Sofiero slott
Sofiero Palace, or just Sofiero, in Helsingborg Municipality, Scania, was one of the Swedish royal family's country mansions, located 5 kilometres (3.1 mi) north of Helsingborg. It was originally a Scanian farm called Skabelycke, bought in 1864 by Prince Oscar of Sweden and his wife Sophia of Nassau. The first one-story palace was completed in 1865. It was expanded to its current size between 1874 and 1876, after Prince Oscar had been crowned King Oscar II of Sweden and Norway.
3. Kärnan
Kärnan is a medieval tower in Helsingborg, Scania, in southern Sweden. It is the only part remaining of a larger Danish fortress which, along with the fortress Kronborg on the opposite bank of the Øresund, controlled the entranceway between the Kattegat and the Øresund and further south the Baltic Sea.
4. Vikingsberg
Vikingsberg is a villa with associated park located on the land castle in Helsingborg. The villa has previously functioned as a municipal art museum, later a private art gallery, but is now an office for Helsingborg's cultural administration. The villa became a listed building in 1967.
5. Gustav Adolfs kyrka
Gustav Adolf's Church is a church building in Helsingborg, Sweden. It is the parish church of Gustav Adolf parish in the diocese of Lund. The church is centrally located in the district, surrounded by a large number of shops and an extensive daily market trade.
6. Bårslövs kyrka
Bårslöv's church is located in the southeastern part of Bårslöv, a few miles east of Helsingborg. Bårslöv was previously a separate parish, Bårslöv parish, but since 2010 belongs to Kvistofta parish in the diocese of Lund.
7. Tivoli
Ångfärjestationen, also known as Färjestationen, is a former station building in Helsingborg. The building was designed by the Swedish State Railways' chief architect at the time, Folke Zettervall, and was built in 1898. Originally, the building was only intended as a temporary solution, as the actual idea was to gather all Helsingborg's train traffic in a central station at the harbour. Today, the building is home to the nightclub The Tivoli.
8. Stadsparken
The city park, actually Krookska plantingen, in Helsingborg is very central, just south of the city's older parts, bounded by Järnvägsgatan to the west, Trädgårdsgatan to the north, Södergatan, Thure Röings gata and Carl Krooks gata to the east, as well as Bollbrogatan to the south.
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