Enkoping, Sweden
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industrial firms and new firms were established, mainly in the engineering field. As a result a large proportion of the population is now employed in industry. After a great fire in 1799 the town was rebuilt on a rectangular plan, which is still preserved in the town center. Most of the buildings are relatively low. The Church of Our Lady (Vårfrukyrkan), built of gray stone, was a bishop's church in the 12th century, but has been much altered and restored since then. On the Minksund are the ruins of a Franciscan friary (restored), the ground-plan of which can still be recognized.

Around Enköping there are large numbers of rock carvings from the Bronze Age, particularly at Boglösa, to the south of the town.