Helsingborg and one of its many sculptures

In the north harbour of Helsingborg, You find the new culturehouse "Dunkers Kulturhus" , the architect is Kim Utzon who creates buildings in a sculptural, continental style.

The statue, in front of the Culturehouse, is called Cosmic room. The sculptors name is  Bengt Amundin. It was created in 1955 for the exhibition H55.

Henrik Larsson

In Helsingborg, in Scania, Sweden You find a bronzesculpture of our famous footballplayer Henrik Larsson.

He is placed along the beatiful bordwalk of Helsingborg, In the bakcground You find an old bath from the late 19th century. You also get a glimpse of the lovely road that leads to Kullaberg.

Born in 1971 he is now a footballplayer-manager for Landskrona BoIs. He has played for Feyenoord for four years, then left for Celtic in 1997. He won four league titles in seven years with Celtic, scoring 242 goals in 315 competitive matches. In 2004 he went to Barcelona. LAter he returned to his hometown Helsingborg where he played in HIF

He announced his retirement from football on 20 October 2009

The sculptors name is Björn Elmert

Fredriksdal- the openairmuseum in Helsingborg

Fredriksdal, the openair museum in Helsingborg is Scania in miniature, with buildings, systematical garden, botanical garden, old sorts of animals, kitchen garden and flowerbeds






This pig is a "Linderödssvin", from the Linderöds ridge in Scania

The Sound

Here in the Öresund Parc in Helsingborg, You get a glimpse of Öresund, the gateway to the Baltic Sea, one of the livliest sounds in the world. It its only 4 kilometers to Denmark and Elsinore

Saint Nicolai and the Dominican monks

Up on the shoreridge in Helsingborg, this memorialmonument shoes the place where the old Dominican convent lied during the middle ages. The dominican munks came to Seeland and Scania in the 13th century. Here they built a monastery, like the one on the picture.They also had a brickfactory close to the monastery, where they produced bricks for the building of the Keep in the 14th century and Saint Mary's Church down on the beach.After the reformation, all the churches and monasterys in Helsingborg and the rest of Scania were torned down and the monks were driven out of the country. It lasted till the late 1960's untul it waw alowed to build a monastery in Sweden.