Post code: S-21...
Telephone code: 040
Malmö lies on the west coast of Skåne, facing the Danish capital of Copenhagen across the Öresund. A major port and Sweden's third largest city, it is an important economic and cultural center.
Malmö has numerous historical buildings and parks as well as the Municipal Theatre and
Malmö Opera.
History
A settlement was established on this site in the second half of the 13th century and thanks to its sheltered anchorages in the shallow Lomma Bay, where the vessels of the Hanseatic towns came to fish for herring, rapidly developed. The town's first fortifications were built during the reign of the Danish king Eric of Pomerania, who also granted Malmö its coat of arms in 1473. The town passed to Sweden under the treaty of Roskilde (1658).
The construction of the harbor and the energy and enterprise of a merchant named Frans Suell (statue in Norra Vallgatan) brought the town great prosperity in the 18th century, and it developed still further after the construction of the railroad between Stockholm and Malmö in the following century.
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