Ystad Sweden
Sweden

6 Cruises availables At departure or passage at this port

Seabourn Cruise Line (2 Cruises)

Silversea Cruises (4 Cruises)


Frequently Asked Questions

At the harbour quays, a few hundred metres from the first cobbled lanes. The medieval centre is within walking distance: no shuttle is needed to start the visit.
Its half-timbered houses: close to three hundred of them, from modest workshops to merchant homes with carved beams. That is rare heritage in Scandinavia, where timber and daub usually lost out to fire. Ochre, pink and green façades lean over the lanes, and hollyhocks storm the walls from July.
Because from the tower of St Mary’s a watchman sounds a horn every quarter hour at night, to signal that all is well. The tradition has continued since the eighteenth century; originally it was a fire warning. With a favourable wind, the horn carries to the harbour basin.
A brick silhouette standing on the main square since the thirteenth century, reworked through storms and changing fashions. It is from its tower that the watchman blows his horn. The interior is open, and the square below is the best place to start wandering.
A monastic complex founded in 1267, among the best preserved in Sweden. Its cloister opens onto a medicinal herb garden where currant bushes grow beside sage, and the adjoining museum covers local history. It is a few streets from the main square.
Because Henning Mankell’s novels made it the world capital of Scandinavian crime fiction. The film studios on the outskirts, where the television series were shot, open their sets to visitors. In town, you can build your own route: the square, the cafés, Mariagatan where the fictional detective has his flat.
An alignment of fifty-nine standing stones in the shape of a ship’s hull, 67 metres long, raised about 1,400 years ago facing the Baltic above the fishing hamlet of Kåseberga, roughly 19 km east. You get there by excursion or taxi, then on foot up through the meadows.
No, and archaeologists still argue about it: burial site, solar calendar, memorial. That is part of the appeal. The reward is the view, between an immense sea and fields of rapeseed.
The half-timbered centre, St Mary’s church, the Franciscan monastery and the lanes around Stora Östergatan fill a morning. Ale stenar needs a separate half-day: unless the call is long, you have to choose between the town and the stones.
Yes, on the long sand beach along the Sandskogen forest east of the quays, with its bathing cabins and a spa establishment opened in the late nineteenth century. It is the walkers’ option, or that of anyone who prefers sand to cobbles.