Växjö

Växjö is the largest city in Kronobergs län in the region Småland in Sweden. In April 2013 Växjö's Smålandsposten reported a municipal population of 84,800 inhabitants.

Understand
The town itself is a small university town with many beautiful lakes. Växjö is in glass country. There are many glass works in the small towns surrounding it, and they produce both functional products and works of art.

By train

 * is in the Southern part of the city centre. There are direct trains from Copenhagen and its Airport (Kastrup) in Denmark. Furthermore, there are trains from Malmö, Gothenburg and Stockholm (change in Alvesta).

By car
Several car routes intersect at Växjö. Route 23 connects to Malmö South-West of Växjö, Routes 25 and 30 connects with the E4 highway in west and north-west, Route 37 carries traffic to Northern and North-Eastern Småland, Route 25 continues eastward towards Kalmar and Route 27 South-East towards Karlskrona.

Get around
Växjö is a small town, so your feet will be sufficient for the center of town with main street Storgatan as the artery. The rest of the city can be reached by bicycle or bus. City buses and buses to the country side can be found at the railway station and are operated by Länstrafiken. Växjö owns a University with many international students. It is a steady growing city and a centre in Smaland. Växjö airport (VXO) make it easy to fly in from Germany (Weeze/Duesseldorf) and Netherlands.

Do
Walk around the lakes, if the weather is nice. Växjösjön lies near the train station just south of the cathedral.

Some of the glass works in the region are worth visiting. They produce functional glass and glass-based products, as well as works of art. An example being Kosta Boda. They offer a paid, guided tour of their workshop in English (takes a little less than an hour). Visiting any of the glass works will require a car, as they are not well-reached via public transport.

Visit the relaxing Teaterparken park or the park around the cathedral.


 * Åsnen runt is a 4+ day bicycle route that goes through Växjö and round the lake Åsnen some 20 km south of town.

Buy
Almost all shops in center of town are on the main street, Storgatan. Nothing that you can't buy everywhere else in Sweden though.

Two larger centers of shopping malls lies in the east of town called Samarkand and I11 after the former regiment. Both reachable by bus nr 3.

There is a Swedish army surplus store not too far from the city center. Follow Liedbergsgatan to the south, cross the railway tracks and take right on the first crossing.

Go next

 * Jönköping - A city on the shore of lake Vättern.
 * Kalmar - An old city by the coast of Småland.
 * Karlskrona - Is a naval town in Blekinge.