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SEK 841 - 1,890 Scandic Linköping City
 This environmentally friendly hotel is found next to the River Stångån, 5 minutes’ walk from Linköping Central Station. All rooms have floor-to-c… MoreSEK 890 - 1,730 Scandic Frimurarehotellet
 This hotel is within 5 minutes’ walk of Linköping Central Station and Stora Torget, the city’s main square. It offers a restaurant, shop and free… MoreSEK 790 - 1,630 Scandic Linköping Väst
 This hotel is located in a quiet residential area, 5 minutes´ drive from Vallaskogen Nature Reserve. Gym, pool and sauna access is free, as are … MoreSEK 795 - 1,395 Sky Hotel Apartments
 Stay centrally in Linköping in the bright, newly built Sky Hotel Apartments. Rent a bike from the hotel to explore the beautiful surroundings of near… MoreSEK 626 - 1,195 Stångå Hotell
 The privately owned Stångå Hotell is situated in the centre of Linköping, only 150 metres from the railway station and close to restaurants and sho… MoreSEK 872 - 2,360 Radisson Blu Hotel Linköping
 Built in 1852, the Radisson Blu Hotel in Linköping is a historic hotel and is one of Scandinavia´s oldest examples of mid-19th century Gustavia… MoreSEK 660 - 1,820 Quality Hotel Ekoxen
 This hotel is located in central Linköping, next to the pretty Trädgårdsföreningen Park. Leisure facilities include a sauna and indoor pool. All r… MoreSEK 690 - 1,195 Hotell Östergyllen
 Just 200 metres from Linköping Central Station and 8 minutes’ walk from the main square, Stora Torget, Hotel Östergyllen provides a variety of bud… MoreSEK 691 - 1,741 First Hotel Linköping
 Enjoy splendid views of Linköping and the Castle Park from First Hotel´s rooftop sundeck. The complimentary penthouse recreation area includes … MoreSEK 595 - 1,500 Idingstad Säteri
 This manor house lies by Lake Roxen, only 12 km from Linköping. It offers free Wi-Fi, free private parking and a large surrounding garden.
All rooms… MoreSEK 595 - 990 Linköpings Cityhotell och Vandrarhem
 Located in the heart of Linköping, this good-value property offers functional accommodation with free internet access and easy access to culture, sho… MoreSEK 790 - 1,190 Park Hotel Linköping Fawlty Towers
 This city centre hotel is situated opposite Linköping Central Station. Room rates include free Wi-Fi, private parking and tea/coffee.
Park Hotel Lin… MoreSEK 645 - 1,995 Best Western Hotel Linköping
 Close to the medieval main square of Linköping, Stora Torget, the Best Western Hotel Linköping is a centrally located hotel with guest rooms decorat… More | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Linkoping: Guide
Linköping (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).
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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.
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Skavsta Airport - Used by Ryanair. Lies 100km north-east of Linköping. (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.
The Linköping train station (Resecentrum) lies just ten minutes walk from the center of the town.
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).
All buslines originate at Resecentrum. You'll also find a reception desk there where you can find timetables or get help.
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.
Linköping Cathedral . 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 , 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 (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 ) 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.
Gamla Linköping and Valla fritidsområde together have over 20 museums.
The Swedish Air Force Museum in the suburb of Malmen features over a hundred aircraft from the early 20th century to the modern age.
IT-ceum is a computer and computing museum, located in Mjärdevi Science Park where you will find many of Linköping's IT companies. The museum covers both ancient Swedish computers and more current events, such as the demo scene with its realtime multimedia productions. The exhibitions describe both the technical and the social aspects of computing. The museum's signs are both in Swedish and in English.
Visit Linköping's cathedral. Don't miss the organ concertos.
Walk around the city.
Walk around Gamla Linköping.
Boat trip on the Kinda Kanal.
Visit the relaxing Linköpings Trädgårdsförening park in the central area.
Kisa to Boxholm following the Malexandermorden trail by car.
When in Gamla Linköping, visit Kanevad woodshop art.
Tornby has several shopping malls and a large, well-stocked IKEA store.
SITE Cybercafé, Sturegatan 3. 15 SEK per hour.
Kniv å gaffel , Drottninggatan 26. Cosy place with tasty food from the Mediterranean region. Mains 119-219 SEK.
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.
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.
To get informed about any entertainment or cultural events in town, such as the occasional live band, you pick up the free Nolltretton and Corren Fredag magazines (only available in Swedish). You can also check the billboard on Lilla Torget where the arrangers post their flyers.
The students have their own places to go to, for instance Herrgår'n in the Ryd area. You have to be a university student (including foreign universities) or the guest of a student at Linköping University, to get in.
STF Hostel Linköping , Klostergatan 52A, phone 013-35 90 00, is the IYHF hostel in town. Dorm bed 205 SEK, singles from 390 SEK, doubles from 410 SEK. Add 45 SEK to the price if you're not a member of the IYHF.
Good Evening Hotel ,Hantverkaregatan 1, phone 013-12 90 00 Single rooms: 740 SEK Sun-Thu, 550 SEK Fri-Sat. Basic hotel at Stora Torget (Big Square).
Linköping University 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 was started by students in Linköping.
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.
This "Travel Guide" section is drawn from the Wikitravel article "Linkoping". We hope you will edit and improve it. It is available under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.5 license.By train
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Gamer Palace, Drottninggatan 36. 25 SEK per hour.
Sidewalk Express, Railway station. 19 SEK per hour.Eat
Wokaway , Repslagaregatan 22. Cheap thai food for taking away or eating in. Mains 45-99 SEK.
Wasabi Sushi Bar, Storgatan 27. Really tasty sushi. Mains 69-179 SEK.
Riva , Ågatan 43. Italian and American food. Mains 79-255 SEK.
BK (Bar & Kök), Ågatan 47. Mains 145-229 SEK.Drink
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Hotell Östergyllen , Hamngatan 2. Good, cheap, and close to the railway station. Single rooms from 425 SEK, double rooms from 620 SEK.Learn
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