Travel Reference
In-Depth Information
Inside the Stadhus.
Getting There & Away
AIR
Sundsvall-Timrå Airport
AIRPORT
( 070-522 03 12;
www.sdlairport.se
)
Sundsvall-Timrå Airport is 21km north of Sundsvall; flights serve Göteborg, Luleå, Stock-
holm and Visby (summer only).
BUS
Buses depart from the Sundsvall bus station, near Kulturmagasinet.
Ybuss
runs to Gävle
(Skr240, 2¾ to 3¾ hours, up to six daily) and Stockholm (Skr300, 4½ to six hours, up to
six daily). Länstrafiken Västerbotten buses 10 and 100 run to Umeå (Skr310, 5¼ hours, up
to five daily) via other coastal towns.
TRAIN
Trains run west to Östersund (Skr266, 2½ hours, up to eight daily) and south to Gävle
(Skr265, 2¼ hours, hourly) and Stockholm (Skr373, 3½ to five hours, up to eight daily).
The station is just east of the town centre on Landsvagsalen, which is a continuation of
Köpmangatan.
Härnösand
0611 / Pop 17,556
Once a pre-Viking trading post on the island of Härnön, Härnösand was burned to the
ground three times in the 1700s: once when drunken churchgoers set the place on fire by
accident, once by schoolboy pranksters, and once when Russian Cossacks flattened it in
1721. Härnösand's Storatorget (main square) is lined with attractive neoclassical 18th-cen-
tury buildings, and its pretty harbour fills up with yachts in July when Härnösand celeb-
rates its maritime heritage.
