Halmstad

Halmstad is a port, college, business and leisure metropolis on the mouth of the Nissan river, in the province of Halland at the Swedish west coast. Halmstad is the seat of Halmstad Municipality and the capital of Halland County. The town had a populace of 92,797 in 2012, out of a municipal overall of over 90,000. Halmstad is Sweden's 20th-biggest city by way of populace and positioned approximately halfway among Gothenburg the second one most populous and Malmo.

It is Europe's northernmost town with a whole lot of timber framing architecture. Halmstad, at the time a part of the Kingdom of Denmark, obtained its first town charter in 1307, and the city celebrated its 700th anniversary in 2007. The oldest stays of that first city are to be observed at "Ovraby" upstream on Nissan, just south of and pretty near the modern regiment homes. The stays of the church can nonetheless be seen nowadays among a defunct brick industry and a former landfill.