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Sweden

Broaden your horizons

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Broaden your horizons

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Borås is located less than an hour by car east of Göteborg, the second largest city in Sweden, both in the west Sweden region. From the magical chain of islands which forms a rocky archipelago stretching along the west coast and the wilderness adventures to the historical castles and manor houses, west Sweden has about all you can wish for.

Borås and the small and pleasant surrounding towns have been the centre of textile and design for several centuries. Today we mix textile tradition with modern technology and design. In the factory outlets you can buy high quality goods at a discount. This is also an area of unspoiled countryside and plenty of canoeing routes and fishing lakes.

Sweden, the land of islands and lakes, also offers bustling cities wherecutting edge design mixes with rich cultural heritage. Captivating landscapes abound in Sweden from scenic coastlines, idyllic islands, arctic wilderness areas, vast lakes and lush forests that cover over half the country, Sweden is the largest na-tion in Scandinavia with approximately 9.1 million people. The official language is Swedish, but most people understand and speak English.

Welcome to Sweden...

... and the city of Borås

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Experience our great range of culture, including the new nine-metre tall sculpture of Pinocchio, also known as “Walking to Borås” by Jim Dine.

The Borås Zoo living Savannah, the NAVET Science Centre which gives everyone a chance to experiment and the municipal water park make Borås a must for any visitor!

Borås is the second largest city in western Sweden with more than 100 000 inhabitants. Borås offers all the services and facilities you would expect in a major city, all located within a pleasant town centre where virtually everything is within walking distance. As a centre for textiles and apparel Borås is a leading producer of smart textiles (materials that sense and react to environmental conditions) and a home for many high street retailers.

Welcome to Borås

Walking to Borås

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Linnémarschen provides the exercise you need in a calm, pleasant way. You´ll enjoy the beautiful countryside while gaining knowledge in the footsteps of Carl Linneaus, and you can do this together with your family, your workmates and several thousand other hikers. Start and finish are at the football stadium Borås Arena, just a stone’s throw from the Rya Åsar nature reserve.

Welcome to the two-day Linnémarschen walk

Welcome to the 2012 Linnémarschen walking event. On the weekend of 28-29 April, Hestra IF, IK Ymer and the City of Borås will welcome you to the 37th Linnémarschen, a walk in the beautiful Rya Åsar nature reserve, visited by Carl Linnéaus back in 1746. Linnémarschen is the largest walking event in Sweden with several thousand participants.

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An experience for all your senses

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“The way to Borås went up, down and on the sides of steep hills...”

Carl von Linné (Linneaus), on his journey through Borås in 1746.

The most famous Swede in the world

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“The way to Borås went up, down and on the sides of steep hills...”

Carl von Linné (Linneaus), on his journey through Borås in 1746.

No doubt Carl von Linné is the most famous Swede in the world. That´s also something I learned when I spent months in the United States of America, where many people did not know any other Swede. There he was called Linneaus, which was his name before he was elevated to the nobility in 1757.

Carl von Linné travelled a great deal in Europe in the 1730’s. In the Nether-lands, he graduated as a doctor of medicine. He visited botanical gardens in Holland, and travelled to England for collect plants. In Paris he was offered a position at the Academy of Science, but he declined and returned to Sweden.

Carl von Linné became very much appreciated in Sweden, too. His students at the University of Uppsala liked him very much as a teacher since he took care of them in a fatherly way. Many of the of the students who were poor even given room and board in Linnés home.

Among his colleagues, however, he was not as popular, and he was criticized for the “shameless behavior” of naming parts of plants after human reproduc-tive organs. That was “shameless behavior” as they thought. Linné was con-vinced that man returned to nature after death, and always started his lectures with the words “nothing is dearer to us than life, nothing is safer than death”.

The most famous Swede in the world

Linné in BoråsLinné made his journey through Västergötland in 1746. He rode on horseback from Borgstena

to Borås and he describes this part of his journey as follows:

“The way to Borås went up, down and on the sides of steep hills, so the ground here is very dif-ferent from the other pleasant places in Västergötland. The town slopes to a quiet river called

the Wiska, which flows from Öresjön to the south on the west side of the town, with a good water, very suitable for the dyeing factories.”

Even though Linné thought that Borås was a “small, clean and pleasant town”, he soon contin-ued to Alingsås. He wrote as follows about this part of his journey.

“I must call the land between Borås and Alingsås Wästgöta Mountains, since it all looks like that.”

Text: Yvonne Gunneriusson

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Challenge yourself take the step

Getting there

Borås is a hub where four national routes meet, and railways heading off in four directions.

Göteborg Landvetter Airport, west Sweden's international airport, is located halfway between the city and Göteborg, and offers seventy-five daily departures to more than twenty destinations.

The proximity to Göteborg Landvetter Airport - about 25 minutes away by car - is another indication of the city’s prime location.

Göteborgs City Airport is about 1,5 hours away.

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Challenge yourself take the step

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Welcome to one of the largest zoos in the country. Here you can meet lions, elephants, apes, giraffes, cheetahs, African wild dogs, zebras and many other fascinating animals at close range. The Zoo also includes interesting footpaths, BBQ places, a restaurant, kiosks, playgrounds, a Children’s Zoo and a lot more.

An adventure pool for everyone situated right in the middle of the city park! With a wave machine, climbing wall, waterchute, sauna and bubble pool, it is a perfect place for both relaxation and adven-ture.

Welcome to NAVET, a building full of science, technology, mathematics, culture and exciting ex-periments. Here adults and children of all ages can play, solve problems and learn about everything from water in antiquity to the infinity of space.

A hyper-modern football stadium and Elfborg’s home ground. With room for 18,000 spectators, this is an impressive sports and events arena. Borås Arena was inaugurated 2005, and is still consid-eredSweden’s most modern stadium. Here there are also conference rooms, a restaurant and a pub.

The forest is the home of Upzone, an experience for everyone who likes to move, test their limits and have fun. Upzone offers various challenges and obstacle courses that swirl among the tree tops at a height up to eleven metres. An adventure park at a really great height and level.

It’s easy to get a great deal in Borås! There are charming shops in the city, large shopping malls in Knalleland and lots of exciting outlets across the Sjuhärad region. The proximity of Borås to the textile industry, mail order houses and the fashion industry makes it the perfect shopping city.

Borås Zoo Upzone adventure park

NAVET Science Center Shopping

Stadsparksbadet Borås Arena

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The textile and fashion industry is the strongest distinguishing mark of Borås! The old industrial premises allow you to feel the heartbeat of indus-trial history and, at the same time, to see modern textile art, fashion design and technology.

The old premises of the Abecita corset factory are used by the biggest photography and graphics museum in Sweden. There is a permanent exhibi-tion of international photographic art and current photography exhibitions.

Borås Art Museum offers a large number of top-class Swedish and international exhibitions. Come and be inspired!

What did life in Sweden and Borås look like several hundred years ago? Come to the open air Borås Museum and find the answers! Here you can also find Ramnakyrkan, a sister church of the Seglora Church in Skansen in Stockholm.

Borås Museum

The Textile Museum

Borås Art Museum

Abecita Art Museum

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Linnémarschen presents a two day walking adventure in varied, spectacular terrain. Choose from several distances, ranging från 5 to 42 kilometres, though typical Swedish forest.

Find out more about the different routes, accommodation and book your walking adventure at:

linnemarschen.com info@linnemarschen.com

Booking Linnémarschen 2012

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Linnémarschen presents a two day walking adventure in varied, spectacular terrain. Choose from several distances, ranging från 5 to 42 kilometres, though typical Swedish forest.

Find out more about the different routes, accommodation and book your walking adventure at:

linnemarschen.com info@linnemarschen.com

Group bookings

Resia Borås Margareta Högenberg Ivarsson or Carin Olausson Groups / corporate travel Allégatan 43 S-503 37 Borås +46 33 22 90 60 fax +46 33 22 90 69 boras.affars@resia.se resia.se/boras

Find out more about the City of Borås, activities and accommodation alternatives:

Borås Tourist Office Österlånggatan 1-3 S - 503 31 Borås +46 33 35 70 90 tourist@boras.com boras.com

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Ymergården

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Älmås

FIN

ISH

Hårsåsen

Kypegården

Pickesjön

Ramnaparken

Knallestenen

Älmås naturreservat

Borås Djurpark

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Borås Tourist Office

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Walking is health!Borås is a hub where four na-tional routes meet, and railways heading off in four directions. Göteborg Landvetter Airport, west Sweden's international air-port, is located halfway between the city and Göteborg, and offers seventy-five daily departures to more than twenty destinations. The proximity to Göteborg Landvetter Airport - about 25 minutes away by car - is another indication of the city’s prime lo-cation.

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