Lund is a city in the southern Swedish province of Scania, across the Oresund strait from Copenhagen.
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26 Facts About Lund
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Lund University, established in 1666, is one of Scandinavia's oldest and largest institutions for education and research.
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Lund is sometimes mentioned as the oldest town or city in present-day Sweden, although it has only been formally established as such for 300 years of its at least thousand-year history.
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Lund 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.
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Smaller city squares in Lund include Domkyrkoplatsen, Petriplatsen, Vastra stationstorget, Sockertorget and Knut den Stores Torg.
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Lund has arguably the mildest climate of the country in average highs.
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Culture in Lund is characterised by the university education and research, and the large student population and student traditions, such as a student theatre group since 1886.
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Lund has a city theatre and a number of other places for concerts and theatres.
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The Lund novel is a genre in its own right, a bildungsroman in which a young student experiences life in Lund, Copenhagen and sometimes Osterlen whilst maturing as an individual.
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The Lund novel is exemplified by the work of Fritiof Nilsson Piraten and Frank Heller.
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Lund has long been a regional centre for classical and church music.
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Since 2006, Lund has been the host of the biannual Lund International Choral Festival.
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Artists associated with Lund include DJ and record producer Axwell, rock musician Kal P Dal, rapper Timbuktu, indie pop group The Radio Dept.
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Lund hosted matches from the 2011 Handball World Championship in the Sparbanken Skane Arena.
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Lund is a railway junction and is well served by rail traffic.
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The main railway station, Lund Central, is Sweden's third busiest railway station, with around 37 000 passengers per day as of 2013.
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Lund has been on the Southern Main Line, which connects Malmo and Stockholm, since it opened in 1856.
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Since 2019, the bus network in Lund has been licensed to the company Vy Buss, overseen by Skanetrafiken.
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Lund has been connected to the motorway network since 1953 when the E22 was opened between Lund and Malmo.
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Lund is served by Copenhagen Airport, the largest airport in the Nordic countries, which can be reached by frequent direct trains in about 35 minutes.
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Lund is a regional centre for high tech companies, several of which are based in the north-east of the city.
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Companies with offices in Lund include Sony Mobile Communications, Ericsson, Arm Holdings, and Microsoft.
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Skane University Hospital and Lund University are major employers, with extensive research facilities.
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