(CN) — The Indigenous Sami village of Ran, located in the Västerbotten region in northeastern Sweden, will be the first of four such villages to sue Sweden in an effort to obtain exclusive hunting and ...

Silicon Valley-based ReGen Villages has teamed up with Swedish architecture firm White Arkitekter to develop ReGen Villages Sweden, a vision for smart, self-sufficient communities throughout the ...

A rare example of Swedish village architecture is on offer in Sala, a rural town in Sweden’s Vastmanland County, about 90 minutes north of Stockholm. Even more rare: The entire hamlet of 70 ...

Entire Swedish village for sale: Sätra Brunn, in Vastmanland County, about 90 minutes north of Stockholm, is one of Sweden's oldest health resorts. Courtesy Christie's International Real Estate.

This lack of rural density was exacerbated by the Great Partition land reforms, which from 1750 onwards split up villages across Sweden, so that each landowner had their land in the same place. As a ...

As my train from Stockholm Arlanda Airport sped north toward Gävle, paralleling the Baltic Sea, my excitement grew. When we passed verdant fir forests and tidy red cottages, I thought of how I had ...

Not only did the introduction of railways in Sweden in the 1850s revolutionise travel. It also gave thousands of Swedish villages and towns large gardens, which were often the first public gardens ...