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Linköping [1] (pronounced "Linshooping") is Sweden's fifth biggest municipality. It is located in the northern part of the Götaland region and is the capital of Östergötland county. It has about 135,000 inhabitants in the municipality, including some countryside, and just under 100,000 in the city proper.

The city has the advantage of being a major city with all that it entails yet retaining the cozy quiet small town feel, largely due to the lack of high buildings (a result of the military airfield just outside the city).

Contents 1 Understand 2 Get in 2.1 By plane 2.2 By train 2.3 By car 3 Get around 3.1 Bus 3.2 Taxi 4 See 4.1 Museums 5 Do 6 Buy 7 Eat 8 Drink 8.1 Coffee 8.2 Alcohol 9 Sleep 9.1 Mid-range 9.2 Budget 10 Learn 11 Get out 12 Events

Understand

Linköping is the clerical and administrative centre in a rich farmland district, the province and county Östergötland.

In the "battle of Stångebro" in 1598, the city fought on the Catholic side and lost. A memorial of the following "bloodbath of Linköping" is found outside the city hall.

Get in

By plane

• Skavsta Airport - Used by Ryanair. Lies 100km north-east of Linköping. A shuttle bus (90 min) overland link between central Linköping and Skavsta airport. Departs from the Resecentrum.

• Linköping Airport - Flights almost only to Stockholm, Trollhättan, Gothenburg (Göteborg), and Copenhagen.

By train

The Linköping train station (Resecentrum) lies just ten minutes walk from the center of the town.

By car

• 200km south of Stockholm on the E4. Very good road (2h drive).

• 45km south of Norrköping on the E4. Very good road (30 min drive).

• 450km north of Malmö/Copenhagen on the E4. Very good road (5h drive).

Get around

Bus

All buslines originate at Resecentrum. You'll also find a reception desk there where you can find timetables or get help.

Taxi

Taxis are on the expensive side. The meter is used to control the cost but always make sure that this is set when commencing a journey.

See

• Linköping Cathedral [2]. The first church was built on this site in the 12th century, and was expanded regularly over the following centuries, culminating on the 19th-century tower. Linköping is said to have had the first Christian bishop in Sweden, in a time when Lund was Danish and Uppsala was pagan.

• Linköping Castle [3], from the 13th century, was the bishop's residence until the Lutheran reformation in the 16th century. Now it is the residence of the sheriff (landshövding) for Östergötland county. The castle also houses a small museum.

• The City Hall [4](stadshuset) was erected as a secondary school (läroverk) in 1864. Above its entrance is the Latin phrase "Initium sapientie timor Domini" (fear of the Lord is the beginning of all learning). This power triangle is on the crest of a minor hill from which the city's main street (Storgatan) slopes down to the main square (Stortorget) and further down to the bridge (Stångebro) across river Stångån. In its extension, this street was part of the old country road to Norrköping and Stockholm.

• Public Buildings. Situated around the hill crest are the public library, the administrative buildings for the diocese, the bishop's residence, and a sports house (gymnastikhuset [5]) built in 1881. The current library was built in 1998, but the collections of the old cathedral library date back to before Gutenberg. Further north are the concert hall (Konsert & Kongress), the county museum (Östergötlands länsmuseum) next to the Raoul Wallenberg plaza, and two secondary schools (Katedralskolan, Berzeliusskolan).

• Gamla Linköping. Valla fritidsområde. Old style town.

Museums

• Gamla Linköping and Valla fritidsområde together have over 20 museums.

• The Swedish Air Force Museum [6] in the suburb of Malmen features over a hundred aircraft from the early 20th century to the modern age.

Do

• Visit Linköping's cathedral. Don't miss the organ concertos.

• Walk around the city.

• Walk around Gamla Linköping.

• Boat trip on the Kinda Kanal.

• Kisa to Boxholm following the Malexandermorden trail by car.

Buy

• When in Gamla Linköping, visit Kanevad woodshop art.

Eat

Drink

Coffee

There are many nice coffee houses and cafes by the main square and in the central parts of the city. They serve a wide variety of coffee. Sweden and the Swedes are the second highest consumers of coffee per person worldwide. In the past ten years traditional Swedish coffee tradition has been diversified and enriched by Italian and continental European coffee, the result being the caffè latte (the Italian word for Swedish coffee with milk) and a gazillion other forms of coffee.

Alcohol

Linköping boasts several bars, among the most popular are BK, Platen's Bar and Platå, all of them found in the central parts of the city around the cathedral.

Sleep

Mid-range

• Good Evening Hotel [7],Hantverkaregatan 1, tel:013-129000 Single rooms: 740SEK, 550SEK Fr-Sa. Basic hotel at Stora Torg (Big Square).

Budget

• STF Hostel Linköping [8]

Learn

• Linköping University [9] was founded in 1969 and has its main "Campus Valla" west of the city. It is also home to Sweden's National Supercomputing Centre (NSC) and is well connected to the Internet. In 1993 Sweden's first website [10] was started by students in Linköping.

Get out

The River Stångån ends in Lake Roxen a few kilometers north of the city. The river is also part of Kinda kanal with a system of early 19th century locks that allow scenic boat trips through other lakes further south. Lake Roxen is also part of Göta kanal, dug in the 1810s to connect the Baltic Sea with the Atlantic at Gothenburg. A remarkable sight is Bergs slussar, a sequence of six locks on Roxen's western shore, about 10 kilometers north of Linköping.

Events

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