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City in Skåne County, Sweden
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Malmö is Sweden's third largest city with a population of about 352,000 (2021), and the capital of the province of Scania (Skåne) on the southern tip of the country. Malmö is a port city on the Öresund strait, facing Copenhagen on its other bank, with which it is connected by the Öresund bridge. Together, the two cities form a duopolis and a core of a larger Oresund region spanning parts of Denmark and Sweden.
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A square with design shops, clothes stores and restaurants. The atmosphere here is posh, so the vibe is very different from Möllevångstorget's. There are similar shops on the nearby parts of Davidshallsgatan.
Between Lilla Torget and Malmöhus. It is a quiet and sophisticated neighbourhood with lots of galleries, design shops and restaurants.
Surrounded on three sides by buildings containing shops and a McDonald's. At the centre of the square is a bus platform. A cemetery lies at the south side of the square, through which one can reach Slottsparken, a beautiful park that surrounds Malmöhus.
The place for socializing and dining, with various restaurants having outdoor tables around the edge of the square.
South of the city centre, has a bustling open-air market on weekends. The surrounding neighbourhood is full of inexpensive Asian and Middle Eastern shops, restaurants and grocery stores catering to the alternative side of the city, the immigrant population and people who are tired of mainstream commerce. The place to go to for inexpensive to moderate prices of beer.
The central plaza of Malmö. At the centre of Stortorget ("The Great Square") is a statue of King Karl X Gustav of Sweden, who took the city from Danish dominion. The ornate Malmö City Hall (built in 1546) is on the east side, and in the north-west corner is Kockska Huset, the house of Jörgen Kock, a German immigrant who became mayor of the city and achieved wealth simply and directly: by taking control of the city mint. In the winter, the square used to be used as a skating rink, but this has rarely happened in the early 2020s.
Country manor with beautiful garden. Nice cafe and antique store.
Malmö Castle
The city's oldest church (from the 14th century).
Completed in 2005, it is at 190 m the tallest building in Scandinavia. Mostly apartments with some offices, it's in a new zone near the waterfront and has no observation tower or other sightseeing facilities, so it's probably best to admire it from afar (visible from almost anywhere in the city). If you are visiting in the summer there is a nice waterfront promenade and an open-sea bath nearby the Turning Torso. There is also a state of the art skateboarding park in the area.
Malmö Art Hall
Large art exhibition. Malmö Konsthall has specialised in contemporary art since it opened in 1975.
A concert hall opened in August 2015.
Moderna Museet
One of the major Swedish art museums.
Malmö's public library
Browsing the shelves and admiring the building itself is a must for all architecture buffs and intellectuals.
Technology and Maritime Museum
Located west of the castle. The largest section of the museum is devoted to transport, in particular aviation, and there are lots of cut-away models, including the entire front end and cockpit of a Vickers Viscount. Visitors can walk (crawl, actually in places) through a 1943 Swedish U3 submarine. The displays are only labelled in Swedish, but is well worth a visit, nonetheless.
Museispårvägen Malmö
Central park with woodlands, a lake, gardens, sculptures, and playgrounds. The park was part of the Baltic exhibition in 1914, and several of the buildings from this exhibition is still around, including an outdoor theatre. In the south, Pildammsparken connects to Stadionparken and The Stadium Area, filled with sports facilities.
Historic central park, connecting to the smaller Slottsträdgården park and Malmöhus Castle to the north. The park was constructed around 1870, on former castle grounds. It is named after the Swedish King Oscar II who inaugurated a park restaurant here in 1881. Kungsparken was designed by the Danish landscape architect Ove Høegh Hansen, inspired by the English garden culture.
Castle Garden
Located north of Kungsparken and south of Malmöhus Castle. This is one of the city's newest amenities and is an organic community garden, open throughout the year. There are eight themed gardens and a potager. Freshly picked flowers and vegetables are available for purchase in the summer months. There is also a small cafe, run entirely by volunteers.
People's Park
Park and entertainment venue in the central parts of Malmö. See the terrarium. Ride a pony. Sunbathe. Eat and drink.
Relatively large park in the eastern outskirts of Malmö. Bulltoftsparken is from the late 1970s, built on a former airfield, and includes a park zone, a sports zone, and a nature zone. The sports zone offers playing fields, tennis courts, a fitness centre, a mini golf facility, and a disc golf field.
There are several options for outdoor swimming in Malmö. This includes beachparks and seabath facilities with small piers. The largest and most popular venue is Ribersborgstranden beachpark, right in the central parts. Swim, sunbathe or promenade at the 2-km sandy beach in Ribersborgstranden. The beach is child-friendly with sandy stretches, just a short walk from the inner city. In the winter you can enjoy ice swimming. Be sure to visit the Ribersborgs Kallbadshus, an old seabath structure from 1902.
Eleda Stadion
This is the home ground of Malmö FF, who play soccer in Allsvenskan, Sweden's top league tier. They usually do well and qualify for European tournaments. With a capacity of 22,500, the stadium is also used for athletics and occasional concerts.
Covered stadium hosting large sports and cultural events, and occasional concerts with room for about 4,000 people.
A bowling hall with room for up to 450 guests.
Another half-covered stadium. Mostly soccer matches.
Indoor ice rink with room for up to 6,000 people.
Large golf course with 27 holes, just outside the central city. There is a restaurant on site.
Indoor golf arena in the southern parts of town.
The largest and first skatepark in Malmö, opened in 1998. This park is an indoor venue with wooden bowls and ramps, but also facilities for street skating.
Skatepark in the harbour district of Västra Hamnen, north of the inner city.
Seabath in the southern parts of town. Take a dip in the sea and soak some sun in the summer. There is an on-site café. Open year round.
Public bathhouse with a focus on wellness and relaxation in the southern parts of town, next to the Kroksbäck Park. The exclusive wellness area is for adults only. Sometimes special evening events. Hylliebadet includes a bathshop with various accessories and an on-site café. It is important that you wash yourself with soap before entering the pools!
Large luxurious wellness centre in Limhamn in south Malmö. Professional wellness treatments and programs. The center includes lifestyle accommodation, an outdoor pool, restaurant, cinema, fitness machines, pools and saunas. Book a stay on-line.
Water-themed playground for kids.
Sweden's oldest horse race track with both flat racing (gallop) and harness racing. There are races all year, all weather, mostly around weekends and public holidays.
This fine art nouveau building was erected in 1912 as a movie theatre, but is now used for theatre and occasional concerts and operas.
Opera house from 1944, clad in grey marble. Nowadays the cultural palette has broadened, and includes concerts, musicals and dance performances. Enjoy the architecture and specially designed interior, it is considered an icon for the Nordic Funkis style. Dine and drink in the associated opera restaurant.
Malmö City Theatre.
Lovely Asian vegetarian restaurant. À la carte and buffet-style. Serves lunch on weekdays and barbecue on weekends. From 68 kr; eat as much as you like.
Super delicious bratwurst and mashed potatoes. Very nice service.
Classic Swedish pizzeria. Amazing delicious pizza. Good value. Friendly service.
Good place to get a spicy Vietnamese sandwich or a bowl of pho, the signature soup of Vietnamese cuisine. Authentic.
Really good pizzas. Fantastic value for money, professional and efficient service, and delicious food.
Well-known and popular falafel place. A normal falafel wrap costs 30 kr (Aug 2017).
Supremely delicious, vegan-friendly, and highly customizable. The menu is just great, the ingredients are fresh. The service is friendly.
The presentation is simple, the restaurant is a cute hole in the wall. Great service.
Nice location, nice food, nice people. They have a wide variety of vegan food. Very good vegan burgers. Food comes fast and quantities are great.
A great, inexpensive Thai place.
An unpretentious looking restaurant that serves delicious Vietnamese food. You'll find it a short walk from Möllevångstorget, down Ystadsgatan. On the menu you will find food like Pho or Vietnamese springrolls. Tasty and reasonably priced.
Affordable, decent Indian food served in a canteen-style setting. A menu consists of 2 – 3 choices of vegetables or meat, along with sauce and rice; extras can be added.
Balkan-style cuisine offering fast food dishes such as Burek, Ćevapčići and Pljeskavica. The Pljeskavica will satiate you for the rest of the day. It's also a grocery store with low prices.
Persian restaurant that serves authentic and succulent Persian kebabs on fluffy steamed basmati rice with butter, grilled tomato and raw onion on the side. Don't miss the salade Olivier, Russian salad-Persian style.
Malmborgen
The main attraction is the all-you-can-eat bouillon fondue (259 kr per person, min. two persons). Choose between beef, pork or chicken with either potatoes or rice on the side. The salad bar is included to the price, but you may also just order the salad bar for 135 kr, all-you-can-eat (all prices as of May 2023). You may also order the reindeer filet.
A delicious mix of Swedish and European food. The best view and service is in the one located close to the Turning Torso and the beach (150 kr each).
Excellent Swedish food, don't let the idea of eating in an Irish bar put you off! Booking is essential in this busy restaurant.
Very nice food for a reasonable price by Scandinavian standards.
A splurge restaurant gone mid-range without compromising the food or service.
An Italian lunch restaurant a short walk from "Triangeln". They serve delicious home made pasta with freshly baked ciabatta bread for only 65 kr.
A sophisticated place serving Asian crossover food to a well-to-do crowd. Mains 134–208 kr.
Great sushi place.
Another restaurant and bar for the local hipsters. They also have club nights. Mains 115–230 kr.
Tasty and juicy steaks plus some seasonal dishes can be found at this laid-back and cozy place.
One of few restaurants that still serve traditional Swedish food (husmanskost).
A calm place with great atmosphere, great sushi and great service. Probably the best Japanese restaurant in town. Mains 64-175 kr.
Lively food hall with various restaurants and shops.
Heavenly homemade ice cream. They also serve pasta.
Oldest existing patisserie ('konditori' in Swedish) in Malmö. Top quality pastry and hot beverages at up-scale price level.
Patisserie with six outlets in Malmö. Good quality pastry and warm beverages at mid-scale price level.
Popular nightclub in the Big Square.
Great Irish pub just off Gustav Adolf's Square.
Not quite like a Tokyo tavern, but it still manages to attract visiting Japanese businessmen.
The city's biggest and best-known nightclub, housed in a former slaughterhouse (hence the name). The facility also includes a performance theatre and restaurants during the day.
Concerts and clubs.
Performing arts, music and talks.
Has good coffee. Also sells speciality coffee beans, t-shirts, jeans, and other items of clothing. Offers take-away and has a 1990s-inspired seating area. Friendly staff.
A nice hostel with basic furniture.
An ecological hotel 20 minutes south of Malmö on the road to Trelleborg with a cosy atmosphere. Small hotel with only 12 rooms.
In a refurbished building north of the Centralstation, with an impressive gym in a historic room with gilded pilasters! Economy rooms are rather small (12 m²) and basic, while Standard rooms (17 m²) feature the tasteful modern decor prevalent across the hotel.
Central location opposite train station. Comfortable traditional hotel. Breakfast is a very relaxed affair.
Advertised as 'the hotel with the big rooms', and they are indeed unusually large by the standards of Scandinavian hotels. The decor is simple but comfortable, in a modern building within an easy walk of the central area. Includes breakfast (with tea and coffee remaining available later in the day) and fast wireless internet. Superior and deluxe rooms have tea/coffee maker.
The former Ibis was upgraded to Mercure, but the building was clearly designed to Ibis standards. It was built to serve as an accommodation base for the nearby sports and conference venues, and is thus quite removed from the centre.
Central location, with a unique rooftop garden.
A boutique hotel close to Malmö Central station.
The only hotel in Västra Hamnen, in the midst of an office/industrial area. The immediate surroundings might not be the most touristy, but the hotel is reasonably close to Malmö Central Station. If you prefer to cycle there, the hotel has bikes for rent.
This is a suburban hotel situated amidst the meadows of Segevång. Slightly dated, but offers a large outside pool and a smaller one inside. It is also close to a golf course and markets itself as a sports/leisure hotel.
Centrally situated.
Central location, and very comfortable. Bedrooms are suite-sized, and include office area and living area, free Wi-Fi and Internet. Breakfast is not served after 10:00 on weekdays.
Boutique-style 5-star hotel in a charming street right off the Lilla Torg. The WiFi is free of charge.
Rather large rooms (family rooms up to 38 m²), all featuring kitchenettes, which can be very handy for longer stays
A nice building with views over the Gustav Adolfs Torg market square and the Hansa shopping mall. Economy rooms have no windows.
formerly Hilton
A gigantic edifice towering over the Triangeln shopping center, the former Hilton offers views over the city from rooms on higher floors, as well as from the top-floor gym.
One of Malmö's newest hotels, the 65-m-tall tower is right in front of the Malmö Arena in the middle of Hyllie. The tower offers views over Malmö and the Öresund Strait and was built in 2016. A taller 110-m tower is under construction right next to it as of 2018. Wi-Fi and breakfast included.
A huge, very modern shopping centre with over 200 shops plus restaurants, in a quite unusually pleasing setting. The centre is right across the entrance to the Hyllie train station and even features a roof terrace with some nice views in good weather.
This shopping centre is the very oldest of its kind in Sweden. Lots of parking lots and good bus connections.
By train
Malmö is well served by trains, including frequent regional and commuter services within Scania as well as long-distance trains from Gothenburg and Stockholm.
By car
Another way of crossing the Øresund Bridge (both bridge and tunnel) is to drive for yourself. It is a toll bridge, with tolls charged in both directions (entering and leaving Sweden).
By bus
FlixBus has routes from Copenhagen, Oslo, Stockholm and other places.
By boat
Finnlines runs a ferry line between Travemünde in northern Germany and Malmö. The ferry line is mostly directed towards trucks and car drivers, but it is possible to book tickets for pedestrians.
Public transport
Skånetrafiken is responsible for public transport in Malmö and all of Scania.
Taxi
Taxi is also an option, fixed rates begin at 49/59/79 kr for trips within Malmö city.
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