Astrid Lindgren’s World is a theatre and theme park where visitors can experience characters from Astrid Lindgren’s books in their true settings. Everyone can meet the characters, they perform scenes from the books and improvise situations involving the children in the park. We offer package deals for Astrid Lindgrens Värld look here!
25 Minutes from Mariannelund lays the adventure park "Nils Holgerssons World". Here you can enjoy for exempel; adventure forest, Little Sweden, Shooting stand, Minigolf, Beach and more. We offer package deals for Nils Holgerssons Värld look here!
Skurugata, which is one of the most amazing geological formations in the area, is a 800 m long, 7 to 24 m wide, rock ravine. Standing between the precipitous rock walls, which in some places are 35 m high, makes you feel very small! There is some uncertainty about the origin of this ravine, but the most probable explanation is that it was eroded during the retreat of the inland ice; other suggested explanations are that it is a natural rift or fault.
Astrid Anna Emilia Ericsson was born here, at the farm at Näs in Vimmerby more than 100 years ago. Her father was tenant farmer at the rectory.
This is where Astrid climbed in the "lemonade tree", played with her siblings, jumped in the hay and listened to stories in Kristin´s kitchen.
Her childhood home is still intact. The house is open for guided tours all year round. What a fantastic experience to enter into Astrid Lindgren´s unique childhood home.
You are welcome to visit our candle and gift shop, located in aSmålandish cultural province of natural beauty, approx. 10 km east of Eksjö.
We make our own candles and have a lange assortment of candles and colors in stock. You will find such specialties as tar and beeswax candles. We also have candlesticks, matching napkins, and candle rings.
If you take the small winding road from the church of Rumskulla towards the grazing land, you probably found the right way. You are on your way to Katthult, where the pictures from the film Emil was taken in the early seventies.
Katthult is placed 10 km from Mariannelund and about 25 km from Vimmerby. Here you can walk around the buildings and feel the atmosphere from the films of Emil. In one of the buildings you will find a shop with souvenirs, icecream and cold drinks. If you are in the neighbourhood or looking for a nice excursion, come and visit us.
In 1991 opened the commune of Vetlanda the mine for tourism after extensive safety measures. It was tried to obtain the work environment as authentic as possible. Since 1995 the tourism enterprise is driven privately. Up to 2008 it was operated by family Berggren which constructed a charming surrounding area with picnic and barbecue places close to the nature. In 2009 a German couple took over and is now driving the Kleva mine as a tourist attraction. Thousands of guests from Sweden and a lot of other countries visit the place and enjoy the mine walk and the other activities as well as the beautiful nature and the picnic facilities between May and August every year.
Gold panning in Adel Fors is fun for kids. Why not try to find gold and earn back your vacation, wouldn´t that be nice? There is also more to do such as canoeing, fishing, BBQ, mineral museum, hiking etc. A whole day in the fresh air on an exciting adventure in search of gold.
New in 2012 in Mariannelund is the doll and toy museum. This museum is definitely worth a visit and get memories back from the ´60s and ´70s with Barbie, Elvis, teddybears and Starwars beside eachother! There is also a little shop for secondhand clothing and you can let your old dolls and teddybears repair. The doll and toy museum is open year round.
Karamellkokeri
Mariannelunds Karamellkokeri makes delicious sweets, these are traditional hand made and from authentic recepies. In the small cozy shop you can see through glass how it works to make candy in different flavors and colors.
There is also mustard for sale that is made from their own recipe. This karamellkokeri is 200 m from kullagården, a nice trip on walking distance to this 70 years old family business.
Virum moosepark opened in the spring of 2008 and is run by us, Kjell and Helene Svensson.
We started the business because of our long founded interest in animals and nature. After having been farmers with cows and horses on our farm, we have now changed to moose and deer in our park and hope to show them to everyone who is interested. We want visitors to be able to experience moose and deer in their natural habitat. In beautiful surroundings, you can get close to the animals, observe their behaviour and be fascinated by their special beauty.
One of the largest trees in Europe, with a circumference of about 13.6 m. It turns green and beautiful every year and dominates the whole area on the edge of the hillside among the juniper trees.
Follow the road signs from Venzelholm, between Rumskulla and Ydrefors.
Within a stone’s throw from the big oak tree is Norra Kvills National Park.
Sìnce 2011, Café Valbacken is under new management by Martina and Jurgen Voge.
This pub is at 350 m hight which you reach by climbing the path beside the skiing track.
Under a delicious cup of coffee with something sweet you will enjoy one of the best views of Smaland.
Runkesten ("rocking-stone") Is said to be largest logan stone in the world. The block was deposited here during the melting-phase of the last inland ice, 10,000-12,000 years ago.
A legend relates that the Runkesten was thrown here by a giant, who will put to death anyone who overturns the stone.
Pelarne Church is an attractive one, and is popular with tourists and for weddings. Parts of it plainly date back to the Middle Ages, although it has been substantially altered since. During restorations original medieval frescoes have been uncovered. The eastern walls are thought to have built in the thirteenth century. However, with its chip-covered walls and slate roof, the church has an essentially eighteenth century appearance. The church lies about ten kilometres to the east of Vimmerby town centre.
It was here in “Bullerbyn”, Astrid had her thoughts when she wrote about the "children in Bullerbyn". Astrid´s father Samuel August grew up in Mellangården and owned a time both Sörgården and Norrgården togheter with his brother in law. However, it is not her father's childhood she describes in the books about the Bullerby childern, its her own childhood during the twenties.
When it became current with a newly filmproduction about the childern in Bullerbyn, they couldn´t they find a better place than Sevedstorp, the “correct” Bullerbyn.
Some once said; Eksjö doesn’t really need any museums, the whole town is like a living museum. This is true, but we still want to keep some of the items in specific museums.
One example is Eksjö Museum which hosts the permanent exhibition “ Eksjö throughout the Centuries”. You will also find the Albert Ensgtröm-collections, probably the largest collection of Engström memorablia.
