Boden, Sweden Tourism

40km/25mi northeast of Luleå up the valley of the Luleälv is Boden (pop. 29,000), a garrison town and railroad junction where the mineral railroad from Gällivare to Luleå cuts across the main north-south line. The military stamp of the town has a long tradition. The Boden fortress built here in 1901 was almost entirely blasted from the rock and