Lund

Second university town after Uppsala, Lund amounts to 94000 inhabitants (whose a large part is students).

Located in Scanie or "Skåne", Lund has suffered a lot covetousness of Sweden and Denmark.
Founded in 990 by the Danish King Sven Tveskägg, the city became the centre of the first nordic archdiocese in 1104.

The Scanie and the Blekinge come to Sweden after the Roskilde Traity in 1658. The Swedes décided in 1666, to found an university town in this former Danish province.

Despite the Roskilde Traity, Lund has been torn between Sweden and Denmark. A new traity, The Lund Traity, in 1679, stop definitively this rivalry.

Domkyrkan
This imposing grey buildingis the most beautiful exemple of romanesque style in Sweden.
The Cathedrale was inaugurated in 1145 after 65 years of construction.