27 Best Places to Visit in Sweden

BIRKA

Heard about Vikings? Sure, you have! And in Birka, outside of Stockholm, you can relive the life as a Viking. How to get here? By a Viking boat of course! Birka was a major trading place in Sweden during the Viking era.Birka, on the island of Björkö in present-day Sweden, was an important Viking Age trading center which handled goods from Scandinavia and Finland as well as Central and Eastern Europe and the Orient. Björkö is located in Lake Mälaren, 30 kilometers west of contemporary Stockholm, in the municipality of Ekerö.