Lund Tourist Information Center

Welcome to the oldest city in Sweden

Destination Lund is a voluntary non-profit tourist agency with the largest amount of tourist information about Lund, the oldest city in Sweden. The city of Lund was already established in the 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 of Christian Scandinavia. The history of Lund is exceptionally interesting!

Get an overview

To start with, please read the overview of Lund to get an a view of the most interesting and special things about Lund as a visitor destination, or have a look at the visitors guides to see how much there is to experience in Lund. You can also read more about us and who we are. If you have any questions, please contact us. We are a tourist agency that answers questions almost every day of the year, and we usually have a quick response time.

Tourist information to plan your visit to Lund

We want it to be as easy as possible for you as a tourist and visitor coming to Lund. On the page tourist information to plan your visit to Lund have we gathered information about everything which is good to know when planning your visit to Lund, all on one page; you should not have to search around to find the information. You will find information on how to get in touch with us for personal service, about hotels and other accommodations, how to find restaurants, where there are toilets and ATMs, and how to travel to and within Lund.

Stay cheaply in Lund when traveling to Copenhagen

Are you planning to visit Copenhagen this summer? Then it's smart to stay in Sweden's oldest city Lund instead and travel by train to Copenhagen in just 50 minutes without changing. The currency difference alone means that you save 30 percent on food and accommodation, but you save even more because the price situation is so much higher in Copenhagen than in Lund. Since Lund is one of the largest university cities in the Nordic region, there are many high-class restaurants. Lund's over one thousand-year-old Viking Age city centre is small and cozy and has many hotels within a short walking distance from the train station. On the page about tourist information, there is also information about how to travel to and from Denmark.

Meet us at International Citizen Days in Copenhagen on Saturday September 26th

On Saturday September 26th, between 10:00 and 15:00, we will represent Lund at International Citizen Days, as one of about a hundred other exhibitors. The event takes place in the large Øksnehallen on Halmtorvet in Copenhagen, just a five-minute walk from the Central Station. The event is aimed at guest workers, exchange students and others in Denmark with international backgrounds from many different countries, so information will be in English. On the Saturday, when we participate, the event is mainly focused on culture and leisure activities. There are usually about four thousand people visiting.

Our stand will be about two by three meters, and we will inform about visiting Lund, our tourist information and about Lund Greeters. Some of our greeters will be on site throughout the day to inform about what is interesting about Lund as a tourist destination, not least Lund's interesting Danish history, and about the student and university city of Lund. The goal is to get more people to want to visit Lund, or to see work and study in Lund as an interesting alternative to Copenhagen.

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 border between Sweden, Norway and Finland, or Sweden’s southernmost location Smygehuk in Scania. 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 where square was established little over 20 years later. Today, the square is somewhat wider and somewhat shorter but still located at the same place where it was established a long time ago. Therefore, you can have dinner at restaurant Taperian on the oldest Swedish square.

More restaurants that share our view of tourism to Lund

If you scroll through the pictures below, you will find more restaurants sharing our positive view of tourism to Lund. Click on the image to go to the website of that restaurant.

On the page listing businesses that collaborate with us, you’ll find more information about restaurant Taperian and other organizations here in Lund that clearly support and openly show their appreciation for our efforts to increase tourism to Lund.

Delve into Lund's Viking Age and medieval history

Lund's oldest Viking Age history has been rewritten in recent years in a way that never happened before. This means that we now can tell much more about Lund's history during the 10th century. If you want to know more about it, or if you find Viking Age and medieval history interesting, you can book a greet with Lund Greeters as a walk in the centre of Lund for a few hours. Lund Greeters shows and tells about many different things, also about Lund's history and the university, depending on what visitors want to know about Lund. If you want more deepening about Lund's Viking Age and medieval history, please write that in the booking.