Alvastra
27km/17mi north of Gränna, at Ödeshög in Östergötland, Road 50 goes off on the left, running at some distance from the shores of the lake, and comes in 8km/5mi to Alvastra, with the ruins of a Cistercian abbey (founded 1143), at the foot of the Omberg (Hjässan, 263m/863ft; viewing platform), a range of hills 10km/6mi long which is wooded on the east side and falls steeply down to Lake Vättern on the west.
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Väversunda
6km/4mi from Alvastra, off the road to the right, is Väversunda, which has a 12th century Romanesque church with a triumphal cross (replica: the original is in the National Museum in Stockholm). To the east lies Lake Tåkern, the haunt of large numbers of birds, which features in Selma Lagerlöf's "Wonderful Adventures of Nils" and in Bengt Berg's animal stories.
