Lund Tourist Information Center
Welcome to the oldest city in nowadays Sweden
Destination Lund is a voluntary non-profit tourist agency with the largest amount of tourist information about Lund, the oldest city in nowadays Sweden. The city of Lund was established already in year 964 by the Danish king Harald Bluetooth and his Vikings. Lund was an important ecclesiastical city during the medieval time, and archbishopric for the whole Christian Scandinavia. The history of Lund is exceptionally interesting!
Get an overview
To start with, please read the overview of Lund to get an overview of the most interesting and special about Lund as a visitor destination, or have a look at the visitor guides to see how much there is to experience in Lund. Read more about us and who we are. If you have any questions, please contact us. We are a tourist agency that answers questions every day of the year, and we usually have short response times.
During the Middle Ages, Lund was an important church town in the Danish Kingdom, and the
archbishopric center for Scandinavia.
Let us show you Lund
Destination Lund is a tourist agency that offer greeter service for up to 6 visitors for free, as part of the International Greeter Association. For larger groups, we can support finding a guide, which will be at some expense. Last year, Lund greeters showed the city to visitors from 33 different countries.
We have greeter service for visitors. Let our greeters show you Lund!
Have dinner at the oldest square in Sweden
There are places in Sweden that everyone wants to experience at least once, like visiting the Three-Country Cairn, which constitute the boarder between Sweden, Norway and Finland, or Sweden’s southernmost location Smygehuk in Skane. Another experience is to have dinner at the oldest square in Sweden. More than 1060 years ago, the place where Lund is located today probably was a hedonic sacrificial grove, maybe the grove (lund in Swedish) that gave the city its name Lund. In that time, 1060 years ago, the place was Christianized by the Danish Vikings, led by the Danish king Harald Bluetooth. They built a church dedicated to saint Clemens just west of the square. Today, the square is somewhat wider and somewhat shorter, but still located at the same place where it was established long time ago. Therefore, you can have dinner at the oldest Swedish square in Lund.
At the restaurant Torgets Taperia, located at the main square, you can eat tapas and home
brewed bear at the oldest square in nowadays Sweden.
Our recommendations are not sponsored
We are a non-profit tourist organisation, no one pay or sponsor us or our recommendations about restaurants and other things to do in Lund. We are eager to keep our independency. On questions, we can give recommendations, mainly about those who like what we are doing to increase the tourism to Lund. Then, we can be sure that you as a visitor will get a positive and welcoming response.
Tourist information - Planning your visit in Lund
How to travel to Lund
On the page about travel information you will find useful information when planning a visit to Lund. There is also information about hotels and restaurants, which most can be reached by walking since the distances are short, and where to find ATMs and public toilets.
Here you will find Lund's largest range of tourist information!
On the page about visitor guides about Lund, you find visitor guides with information about interesting things to do during your visit in Lund. Our tourist information is mobile friendly, free of charged and advertising. It opens directly in the mobile phone; no app needs to be downloaded.
On the page events, you find interesting recurring events in Lund. We are in contact with some guides that offer guided tours on request for larger groups in different languages at some expense. We also offer free greeter service in English or Swedish, aimed at smaller groups of maximum 6 persons.
Contact us if you have any questions
If you have any questions during planning or before your visit to Lund, you are most welcome to contact us. We answers questions every day of the year, and we usually have short response times. We do not sell anything, even our greeter service is for free. We are a non-profit tourist organisation operated by locals living in Lund.
Our greeters can show and tell you a lot about the history of Lund and the university city of
Lund.
Plan your visit to the Lund Carnival 2026
You almost have to experience the Lund Carnival, the absolute largest event in Lund. The planning of the Lund Carnival 2026 has now started, and it will tentatively be arranged May 22 to 24, 2026. The Lund Carnival is usually organized by about 7,000 students at Lund University. About 500,000 visitors are coming during the three days that the event takes place, from Friday to Sunday. In the large visitor guide about the Lund Carnival, you will find information about everything you need to know about the Lund Carnival to experience it as much as possible.
Discover interesting places and attractions in Lund
In Lund, there are many interesting places with fascinating history to discover. Nowadays Lund is an important student city with one of the largest and most popular universities in Sweden. The north east part is one of the largest research areas in northern Europe, still growing with the establishment of European Spallation Source (ESS) and MAX IV, the brightest X-ray source in the world, due to their homepage. With our visitor guides you can guide yourself to discover some interesting places in Lund.
Since we are fully voluntary and non-profit, we have not been able to produce so much information in English yet. We do have a page on Instagram were we post photos about Lund now and then with information in English.