Karlshamn - Karlshamn

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Karlshamn is a city in the Blekinge province of southern Sweden.

Understand

Get in

Karlshamn is connected by railway, and the nearest major stations are Kristianstad to the west and Kalmar to the east.

DFDS Seaways provides a few places for passengers on their near daily service to Klaipeda in Lithuania, on board ro-ro freight ferries. The journey takes around 15 hours.

Get around

By taxi

• TaxiKurir Karlshamn, ☏ 46 455 81 000. Smart phone app offers address based routing and calculates price according to them. (updated Aug 2020)

See

• Axel Olsson's statue of Karl-Oskar and Kristina

• The Cultural Centre, Vinkelgatan 8. Historic buildings of Swedish punsch factory, the silver forge, the art gallery, the print workshop and merchant houses converted into a museum.

• Eriksberg. A wildlife park with a conference centre, and Scandinavia's only wild population of European bison. 

Do

• Kreativum Science Centre, Strömmavägen 28.

Buy

Eat

Drink

Sleep

• Hostel Karlshamn, Surbrunnsvägen 1C, tel. 46 454 14040. Double 420 kr.

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