First and foremost, Gothenburg is a coastal and maritime city. Its history, atmosphere and character have always been shaped by the sea and seafaring, built as it is around Scandinavia´s largest port. Gothenburg forms the centre of the great West Coast Archipelago seascape, with its thousands of islands, rocks and skerries – a limitless eldorado to explore for all with a passion for salty waters, sea breeze and ocean swells.
Gothenburg archipelago
Photo: Kjell Holmner/imagebank.sweden.se
A vast water world known among the most magnificently beautiful in Europe.
Hooked on city fishing? In Stockholm, Gothenburg and Malmö there is some great fishing.
From central Gothenburg, the fabulous seascape of the Western Archipelago, with its peerless isle world of dramatic barren grey skerries shifting in trademark pink nuances, is easily accessible.
The long coastlines in the east, south and west of southern Sweden, and on the islands of Gotland and Öland, offer constantly changing scenic panoramas, with a multitude of picturesque fishing villages, coast towns, beach resorts and secluded getaways in splendid settings.
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Stockholm is well known for its archipielago but the fact is that the archipielago of Göteborg is amazing as well and yes it can be warm in Sweden although the German weatherforecast... »
