26 Facts About Lund Sweden

Lund Sweden is a city in the southern Swedish province of Scania, across the Oresund strait from Copenhagen.

Lund Sweden University, established in 1666, is one of Scandinavia's oldest and largest institutions for education and research.

Lund Sweden Cathedral was similarly founded in or shortly after 1103.

In 1164 Sweden acquired an archbishop of its own, although he was nominally subordinate to the archbishop of Lund.

The exceptionally bloody Battle of Lund Sweden was fought just north of the city in 1676, and ended in a decisive Swedish victory; Swedish control of Scania was confirmed in the Peace of Lund Sweden later that year.

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Lund Sweden city contains four main city squares that are connected by a number of roads and passages that represent the main city centre containing numerous restaurants, shops and bars.

Smaller city squares in Lund Sweden include Domkyrkoplatsen, Petriplatsen, Vastra stationstorget, Sockertorget and Knut den Stores Torg.

Lund Sweden has arguably the mildest climate of the country in average highs.

Culture in Lund Sweden is characterised by the university education and research, and the large student population and student traditions, such as a student theatre group since 1886.

Lund Sweden has a city theatre and a number of other places for concerts and theatres.

The Lund Sweden novel is a genre in its own right, a bildungsroman in which a young student experiences life in Lund Sweden, Copenhagen and sometimes Osterlen whilst maturing as an individual.

The Lund Sweden novel is exemplified by the work of Fritiof Nilsson Piraten and Frank Heller.

Lund Sweden has long been a regional centre for classical and church music.

Since 2006, Lund Sweden has been the host of the biannual Lund Sweden International Choral Festival.

Artists associated with Lund include DJ and record producer Axwell, rock musician Kal P Dal, rapper Timbuktu, indie pop group The Radio Dept.

Lund Sweden hosted matches from the 2011 Handball World Championship in the Sparbanken Skane Arena.

Lund Sweden is a railway junction and is well served by rail traffic.

The main railway station, Lund Central, is Sweden's third busiest railway station, with around 37 000 passengers per day as of 2013.

Lund Sweden has been on the Southern Main Line, which connects Malmo and Stockholm, since it opened in 1856.

Since 2019, the bus network in Lund Sweden has been licensed to the company Vy Buss, overseen by Skanetrafiken.

Lund Sweden has been connected to the motorway network since 1953 when the E22 was opened between Lund Sweden and Malmo.

The E22 was the first motorway in Lund Sweden, and was originally built around the edge of the town; however following the expansion of the suburbs out to the east in the latter half of the 20th century it now passes through the city.

Lund Sweden is served by Copenhagen Airport, the largest airport in the Nordic countries, which can be reached by frequent direct trains in about 35 minutes.

Lund Sweden is a regional centre for high tech companies, several of which are based in the north-east of the city.

Companies with offices in Lund Sweden include Sony Mobile Communications, Ericsson, Arm Holdings, and Microsoft.

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Skane University Hospital and Lund Sweden University are major employers, with extensive research facilities.