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Karlskrona is a UNESCO World Heritage Site, which includes the whole area of baroque streets, a shipyard and a fort. The city of Karlskrona is spread over 30 islands, the main one being Trossö where the city centre is located.

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Gotland

Sweden: Oland – Medieval Visby

The Hanseatic city of Visby is arguably the best-preserved medieval city in Scandinavia, and, since 1995, it has been on the UNESCO World Heritage Site list.

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Gotland

Sweden: Southern Oland

Just off the coast at Kalmar, separated by the Kalmar Strait, is the island of Öland the second largest of Sweden’s islands and its smallest traditional province.

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Stockholm

Sweden: Stockholm – Skogskyrkogården

Skogskyrkogården is a cemetery in Stockholm which is a UNESCO World Heritage Site. It was created between 1917 and 1920 by two young architects, Asplund and Lewerentz, on the site of former gravel pits overgrown with pine trees.

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Stockholm

Sweden: Stockholm – Drottningholm Palace

Constructed in the seventeenth century, Drottningholm Palace is Sweden's best-preserved royal palace. The palace has been the permanent residence of the present royal family since 1981.

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Västra Götaland

Sweden: Tanum carvings – World Heritage Site

The Tanum rock carvings are an outstanding example of Bronze Age art. There are an astonishing 1,500 known rock carving sites in western Sweden’s Bohuslän region, including the ones in Tanum, where inhabitants from the Bronze Age have carved images into the smooth rocks of the landscape.

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Halland

Sweden: Grimeton Radio Station

Grimeton Radio Station is an early longwave transatlantic wireless telegraphy station built in 1922–1924, that has been preserved as a historical site. In 2004, Grimeton Radio Station was added to UNESCO’s World Heritage List of unique natural and cultural heritage sites.