Kalmar län och Öland
The Quince Oak, or Rumskulla Oak as it is also known, is Sweden's oldest and largest tree and one of the largest oaks in Europe. An impressive giant. Its circumference at breast height is 13 meters. At the end of the 1930s, a thorough investigation was carr…
Come and enjoy Stensjö village, Kalmar County's first cultural reserve. Here in the village you can, among other things, walk in the old cultural landscape around the undivided village with buildings from the 18th and 19th centuries. The cluster of red-pain…
Runkesten är ca 5 meter hög, 4 meter bred och 10 meter lång och av forskare ansedd som jordens största flyttblock, som kan sättas i vaggning. Under den senaste årmiljonen, den så kallade kvartärtiden har vi haft minst fyra perioder då landisar täckt större…
Experience Sven Petter Persson's life work in Djursdala village. The stone kingdom on the Björkesnäs estate is located on old cultural land. On the land of the village and neighboring farms there are burial grounds and smelting furnaces from the Iron Age an…
The cave consists of a crack between large boulders covered by a large block, about 8 meters in diameter and 4 meters high. The cave is 4 meters deep and you can get down with the help of a ladder. On the floor of the cave there are numerous stones, which s…
Fortresses were built in the Iron Age as places of refuge in times of trouble or as places to guard shipping lanes. It is possible that the area below the mountain was once a lake with a connection to the Baltic Sea. On the ridge below the mountain there ar…
There are beautiful rocks here and it is possible to take a dip. If you make a small detour from the yellow trail, you will arrive at a shelter with a barbecue area and a view of the lake.
Ett småskaligt jordbruk med gärdesgårdar, intakta fägator, hamlade träd och många odlingsrösen fördelade på ett stort antal skiften, som det såg ut vid förra sekelskiftet. Två vandringsslingor tar dig runt i den unika miljön.
Nils Dacke ledde de småländska bönderna under upproret mot Gustav Vasa. Med sin bondearmé erövrade Dacke hela Småland. I Östergötland besegrades de dock av kung Gustav Vasas tyska legoknektar. Dackes bönder retirerade, och på sjön Hjortens is stod den sista…
The stonemasonry museums Welcome to visit Stenhuggarmuseerna & Stenhuggarleden. A little less than a mile south of Oskarshamn is Vånevik, which was also the center of the stone industry from 1870 until the mid-1950s. In the museum in Vånevik you can learn a…
Hidden under a boulder, you will find, with the help of a ladder, two spacious chambers. This is where the villagers hid in 1612, when the Danes burned Klövdala village during the Kalmar War.
Brömsebäck is a historic site in many ways. Today it is possibly best known for being the place where arch enemies Denmark and Sweden signed a peace treaty on 13 August 1645, heralding the start of Sweden’s Age of Greatness. In the First World War, a memori…
Vilhelm Moberg's grandmother was born in Duvemåla. The place inspired the emigrant novel Kristina. In reality, the four Rundqvist siblings, Hertha, Naemi, Martin and Mauritz, lived here. All four remained unmarried and lived together in a very old-fashioned…
The tale of the great thief Lasse-Maja, who dressed up in women's clothes and stole from the rich and gave to the poor, said that he hid in the Lasse Maja cave and Little Lasse Chamber and managed to stay away from the sheriff.
Welcome to Ishults Tingshus, the place where justice was served for 205 years. In 1730, the first court was held in Ishult. Those sentenced to death were executed at the gallows hill in Krokstorp a few kilometers from the courthouse. The last time the judge…
