Ystad

Travel Guide & Travel Information

If you follow the coastline coming from Trelleborg to the east, you will reach the small harbor town of Ystad by car after about 50 minutes. Until 1658 Ystad belonged to Denmark, in the Middle Ages the town was an important port for herring fishing. Today, ferries run from Ystad to the Danish island of Bornholm and to Swinoujscie in Poland.

Sights

The beautiful old town with over 300 very well preserved half-timbered houses is unique in Sweden. Ystad is known among German tourists today mainly through the "Wallander" novels by Henning Mankell, whose plots are almost all set in Ystad. The places mentioned in the detective novels also exist in real life, for example the home of commissioner Kurt Wallander at Mariagatan 10, a simple building made of red brick.

At Stortorget is St. Mary's Church, whose 16th-century tower is one of Ystad's landmarks. A little further north is St. Peter's Church and the former Franciscan monastery, both built in the 13th century.

Museums

Charlotte Berlins Museum. The former home of Charlotte Berlins is an original furnished bourgeois home from the 19th century
- Address: Dammgatan 23, 271 42 Ystad, Sweden.
- Website: charlotteberlinsmuseum.se
- Opening hours: daily from 27 june to 11 september, guided tours every hour from 11 am to 4 pm.
Ystad Art Museum with a focus on regional art (Denmark, southern Sweden).
- Address: St Knuts Torg, 271 42 Ystad, Sweden.
- Website: konstmuseet.ystad.se
Ystad Monastery
- Address: S:t Petri Kyrkoplan, 271 34 Ystad, Sweden
- Website: www.ystad.se/klostret
Military Museum Ystad
- Address: Nils Ahlins gata 19, 271 39 Ystad, Sweden
- Website: www.ystadsmilitarmuseum.se

Where is Ystad?

Ystad is a town and municipality (Ystads kommun) in the Swedish province of Skåne, about 502 km southwest of the Swedish Capital Stockholm. There are about 20,000 inhabitants living in Ystad.