Alingsås, Szwecja

From our home you have 10 km to the nearest city Alingsås, a small picturesque city in western Sweden Alingsås has around 38,000 inhabitants. With an attractive location and a growing number of inhabitants, the town is constantly changing. Yet it still retains its traditional atmosphere.
Throughout the years, the town has retained its character with cobbled streets and old wooden buildings from the 18th and 19th centuries. Alingsås is known as the “Café Town”, due to its large number of cafés and bakeries. In recent years, Alingsås has increasingly also become known as the “Light Town”. Every October, around 70,000 persons visit Lights in Alingsås, northern Europe’s largest event for experimental lighting of public places.
Alingsås is known for Jonas Alströmer who is said to have introduced and popularized the potato in Sweden. Alingsås is sometimes called "Potato City ', and every year, during a week in June, it celebrated with a potato festival.
If you would like to explore the fantastic archipelago on the Swedish west coast you would need to drive 1-2 hours to reach a magnificent landscape with sandy beaches, sun-warmed cliffs, and spots where you can be completely alone. There you will also find attractions as diving, crab fishing, kayaking, bird watching, climbing, mountain biking, and lobster fishing.
You can reach Gothenburg within 35 minutes by train. It is a city for shopping, nightlife, guided tours, museums, restaurants and many other attractions. Scandinavian biggest amusement park Liseberg you will also find in Gothenburg. You can reach Stockholm within less than 3 hours by train.
It is about 1.5 hours drive to Ullared, Sweden's largest and most famous shopping market