Welcome to Kalmar

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Enjoy holidays with sun and swimming, shopping and entertainment, art and culture. Kalmar offers the opportunities of a large city but also the proximity and charm of a smaller place. Within walking and bicycling distance, you can enjoy beaches, parks, forests, meadows, cobblestone streets, shops, museums, cafés and galleries. And an honest-to-goodness castle with pinnacles and towers. Today Kalmar is a modern city with broad scope, but wherever you go, you feel the pulse of history. Several important meetings have taken place here. The best known is the Union Meeting of 1397, when the Kalmar Union was formed. Sweden, Denmark and Norway were a united kingdom up until 1523, when Sweden broke away and Gustav Vasa became king.