- a town with medieval ancestry, surrounded by beech forest & sea
The charming and well-visited city centre with shops, superb shopping, cafes and restaurants. Several of these with White Guide rennomé. Walk across the Sölvesborg Bridge, an international celebrity. On the other side is Sölvesborg Golf Club which has one of Sweden's most excellent golf courses. You will also reach chalk-white beaches, jetties, bathing places and picturesque fishing villages.
Sölvesborg is also the hometown of Sweden Rock Festival, Hällevik's Tradjazz Festival, the all Swedish football team Mjällby AIF and the archipelago Hanö. These are just some of the many fantastic sights in Sölvesborg. Welcome to discover naturally beautiful Sölvesborg you!
Nature in
Sölvesborg
In Sölvesborg, nature is close, whether you want to be or activate yourself. It is not far from beautiful nature experiences. Most are also within easy walking distance or bike ride away. If you take the train or car, you can quickly get to Copenhagen's city pulse and back again.
Medieval ancestry
- and it's colour
Sölvesborg has a beautiful city centre goes in vanilla, mild yellow, apricot, brick red and pink. Stockpile, more specifically. The colour named after Jan Lagerås, a highly regarded urban architect in Sölvesborg for 30 years, and well known among the country's architects. The soft colour palette holds together the buildings in the city centre.
Around the square, the medieval street network preserved and a short distance away is the city's oldest building - St Nicolai Church, erected around the turn of the 13th century. Today the castle ruins and the lovely castle park are well worth a visit and a walk.
Ryssberget
- Blekinge's Nangijala
Have you seen the movie about the Brothers Lionheart? It could have been recorded on the slopes of Ryssberg. Here are the small villages Ynde, Ebbalycke and Bjäraryd which are quite fabulous; most preferably in May when the beech forest, the largest in southern Sweden, is light green coloured by freshly cracked leaves and the apple orchards bloom. Here you will find excellent fishing waters in Grundsjön, several beautiful hiking trails and cute little villages and farms.
Below the Ryssberget lay the lake Vesan. Today, the lake is extinct and transformed into fertile fields. In Gammalstorp there is a church on what was once an island in Vesan. The site formerly had a Romanesque church erected during the 12th century. On the other side of the field lies the ancient village of Ysane with its charming medieval church of St. Gertrud. Experience the church's beautiful preserved chalk paintings signed "Vittskövlemästaren" Nils Håkansson.
Four Seasons Park
- a Dutch flower meadow by the sea
New York, Chicago, Toronto and Sölvesborg. The world metropolises and our small town have at least two things in common; the letter "o" and parks in the design of the Dutch Piet Odulf. Our name is Fyra Årstiders Park and is a Dutch flower meadow in Swedish way where the shape, structure and silhouette of the plants are more important than the colour.
If you want to experience the park entirely, you can go to the harbour promenade both winter and spring, autumn and summer. Waving ornamental grass, sage, spring onion, rudbeckia and other plants that "die beautifully" give our unique walking park life and meaning all year round. And here are more nice surfaces for legs with a lot of running in and for strolling life-enjoyers. In the beautiful Castle Park, you can have a picnic in the grass or go sledging down the hill at the castle ruin.
Listerlandet
- for all the senses
Fragrances, flavours, sounds and emotions. On the way to Listerlandet, the lungs filled with country air of the best kind. First with a slight hint of barn and manure, then of alpine smoke, sea and seaweed. You hear the cheer of the Mjällby AIF crowd, the gulls scream, the fishing boats soothing thumping and a jazz band in August night. Beaches and picturesque fishing villages lie like a pearl band along the peninsula's eight-mile-long coast. Here it is easy to feel good and pleasant to live!
Fishing Villages
The most beautiful way to get into Hällevik is down the steep hill Haveliden. The view of the sea and the Kråkenabben far down there is breathtaking. In Hällevik you can swim, enjoy the range of smoke and restaurants, the natural environment, football and jazz. The Fish Museum and Old Fishing Day provide an insight into how a life lived in the fishing state.
A stone's throw away is Nogersund with the Kråkenabben, a windblown pasture landscape with the eggs framed by beautiful stone fences. Here are several exciting hiking trails. In Nogersund you can see many examples of yarn gardens - long narrow gardens with room to dry yarn. From the harbour, the ferry goes to Hanö.
Continue your journey towards Hörvik, which lies just behind Lister's Head, take a dip on the beach and test one of the cosy taverns in the harbour. Hörvik connected to picturesque Krokås where you will find the nature reserve Spragelhall.