Old Town: Drottninggatan, Tyska Torget- German Square, Queen Street, Rådhuset, Town Hall, Hedvigs Kyrka, St Olai Kyrka, Hörsalen, Trädgårdsgatan, Spiralen, Linden, Domino
Tyska Torget (German Square) is the main square in the city. Here you find the impressive Town Hall (Norrköpings Rådhus, built 1907-10), massive in size with its 68m high brick tower with a clock and a golden statue of St Olof and Hedvigs Kyrka, a church built in 1673 for the German inhabitnats. From there Drottninggatan (Queen Street) continues as the main shopping street with several department stores, three shopping malls (Linden, Spiralen and Domino), special shops, fastfood chains and restaurants, many housed in beautiful historical buildings. The church St Olai Kyrka (inaugurated 1767) is a main sight, a yellow baroque building with a campanile (city clock tower) in the same style. Norrköpings Hörsal, at Hörsalsparken, is a baroque concert building that used to house St Johannes Church, now in a larget neo-gothic building. The lower part of Drottningg is less beautiful with 60s modernist buildings and malls. Norrköping is known for its yellow and orange trams, many quite old. It is one of only three cities in Sweden that has trams (Gothenburg and Stockholm are the other ones). Drottninggatan is trafficated by many of these trams. Parts of Norrköping are quite hilly, so is a part Drottninggatan and its surroundings. Cobbed streets, many nice restaurants and trams creates a nice atmosphere at Drottninggatan. |