Lund
Lund is a city in Scania, in the south of Sweden. About 80,000 people live there, which makes it the eleventh biggest city in Sweden. It is close to Malmö. The municipality has about 105,000 people.
Lund is known for its university, Lund University (founded in 1666). It is the largest university in Scandinavia. The city is also known for its cathedral, Lund Cathedral (Lunds domkyrka).
Lund is an old city. It was probably founded around the year 990, when Scania belonged to Denmark.
Lund Media
An engraving of Lund in or around 1588. By Frans Hogenbergs in the pictorial work Civitates orbis terrarum (the cities of the world).
Hjortgatan, a street in the old part of Lund
Kaspar Magnus Espman's map of Lund from 1784, showing the structure of the medieval centre.
Aerial view of Lund, Scania, Sweden.
The Lundagård park in central Lund.
The Botanical Garden in Lund
Stadsparken in Lund, this is the view over a pond
Stadsparken, Lund's main city park.
Adelgatan ("Nobility Street" in current Swedish but originally meant Main Street), Lund
Lilla Fiskaregatan, the main pedestrian street in Lund.
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