Coffee comes in porcelain cups and cake is eaten with a proper pastry fork at Dahlbergs Cafe, the old-fashioned konditori in the heart of the Gamla Linkoping open-air museum. The cafe occupies the 18th-century Tornbergska garden building at Kryddbodtorget, surrounded by cobblestones and red wooden houses, and the whole experience is pitched as a small time-travel: classic Swedish pastries - Budapest slices, Paris waffles, raspberry mazarins, prinsesstarta - alongside daily bread deliveries from .....

Sweden's folkpark entertainment tradition has a living museum piece in Gamla Linkoping: the yellow wooden Folkparksteatern, built in 1921 in Linkoping's Folkets Park to drawings by Axel Brunskog and moved across the street into the open-air museum in 2014-15, where it was restored to its 1920s form. The relocation - triggered when housing was planned for the park site - was treated as a full reconstruction of a folk-park environment: the original entrance building with its ticket kiosks was recr.....

A hotel for all the senses is how Linkoping's The Box sells itself, and the formula is social-first Scandinavian: smartly planned compact rooms, generous common spaces, and everything under one roof. Quality Hotel The Box stands at Aspogatan 7 in the Ebbepark district, 2.5 kilometres from the city centre - a ten-minute bus ride or half-hour walk from Linkoping Central Station - next to Linkoping City Airport, the E4 motorway and a stone's throw from the Bilborsen Arena (Linkoping Arena), which m.....