Sandviken

Sandviken is a locality and the seat of Sandviken Municipality in Gavleborg County, Sweden with 22,965 population in 2010. It is located about 25 km west of Gavle and lies about 190 km north of Stockholm. The rail adventure to Stockholm takes approximately 2 hours and to Arlanda, Sweden´s foremost global airport, no more than 1.5 hours.

Sandviken is the house town of the main high-era Swedish engineering concern Sandvik and the primary workplace of the agency became positioned in Sandviken till January 2012 whilst it changed into moved to Stockholm.Sandviken is also home to a number of cultural activities: Kulturskolan approach "the cultureschool", Sandviken Big Band, Sandviken Symphonic Orchestra and a huge variety of musicians within the location. Sandvikens Art Gallery suggests at some stage in the year numerous exciting exhibitions. Amongst the many popular tourist attractions within the municipality, the subsequent need to be singled out for special mention: the appealing antique, cautiously restored industrial villages in Gysinge and Hogbo Bruk with their forges and smithies, handicraft, manor homes and possibilities they provide for outside recreation.