
Luleå Travel Guide
From Wikitravel
Luleå is a regional centre with a technical university and steelworks in Norrbotten, northern Sweden, with about 70,000 inhabitants. The city is situated at the mouth of the Lule River, in the northwest corner of the Gulf of Bothnia.
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Get in
By Plane
SAS have seven flights per day from Stockholm Arlanda to Kallax Airport, with a flight time of about 1 hour 10 minutes. Kallax lies about 5km from Luleå city centre, which is accessable via shuttle bus or taxi.
There are also scheduled flights to Kiruna/Tromsö (Nordkalottflyg), Pajala (Nordkalottflyg), Umeå/Östersund (Nordic Regional), Gothenburg (City Airline), Sundsvall/Borlänge (Direktflyg) and Murmansk/Archangelsk (Archangelsk Airlines).
By Train
Trains go to Luleå using Malmbanan from Narvik via Kiruna, Gällivare and Boden.
Via Boden and Norra stambanan, night trains goes to Stockholm from Luleå.
Get around
A fast, cheap and comfortable way of getting to the different parts of the city, is by using the local bus traffic (LLT). At weekends you should be able to catch a night-bus from most local traffic bus stations about once every hour between 0.00 and 3.00, at a raised cost.
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Luleå Teckniska Universitet (Luleå Technical University, LTU) [1] was established in 1971. Its faculties now include Engineering, Computer Science, Music, Wood Technology, Business, Mining and Space Science.
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