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noon-4pm Wed-Sun, daily Jul & Aug)
Duck into underground dungeons, check out ye olde instruments of retribution, peer into
the windowless 'punishment' cells, and enjoy the tableaux of slatterns and miscreants get-
ting merry inside one of Sweden's first penitentiaries.
Furuvik
AMUSEMENT PARK
(
www.furuvik.se
; adult/3-12yr Skr199/169; 10am-7pm mid-Jun-mid-Aug; )
Families mob Furuvik amusement park in summer, thanks to its roller coasters, Aqua
Jungle pool area with water slides, and ape enclosure at the zoo. Furuvik is 12km south-
east of Gävle; take a local train to Furuvik stop (seven minutes, every two hours).
Limön
ISLAND
(boat tours adult/child each way Skr50/30)
From late May to late August up to three daily 45-minute
boat tours
on the M/S
Queen
Silvia
run from Södra Skeppsbron to the island of Limön, part of the surrounding ar-
chipelago. The island has a
nature trail
and several forested walking paths, and a
mass
grave
and
memorial
to the sailors of a ship that was lost here in the early 1800s.
Joe Hillgården
MUSEUM
One of the houses in Gamla Gefle is a museum marking the birthplace of the US labour-
union organiser. Hill was wrongly convicted of a murder and executed in Utah in 1915.
Some of his folk songs form part of the memorial here.
Heliga Trefaldighets kyrka
CHURCH
The oldest church in Gävle has an 11th-century rune stone inside, as well as incredible
woodcrafter decoration - the work of German craftsman Ewardt Friis.
Sleeping
