Flen

Flen is a town in Södermanland County which 6,200 people call home. Flen municipality, Flens kommun, contains the surrounding countryside, with a total of 16,000 inhabitants.

Settlements

  • Flen
  • Malmköping
  • Hälleforsnäs
  • Sparreholm
  • Mellösa
  • Bettna

Understand

Flen grew during the early 20th century, where the Stockholm Gothenburg rail line crossed the line between Grängesberg and Oxelösund.

Get in

Get around

Sörmlandstrafiken runs an extensive bus network that covers all settlements.

See

  • 🌍 Swedish Urban Transport Museum (in Malmköping, north of Flen). Surprisingly enough, though Malmköping is barely a town, it has a museum for urban rail, with trams from most Swedish cities with such.
  • 🌍 Sparreholm Palace (Sparreholms slott). A palace with some unusual museum collections, such as an exhibition of jukeboxes.

Do

Drink

  • Blaxsta Vineyard (Blaxsta Vingård). Sweden's first winery, and one of the northernmost in the world.

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