Linköping: where Swedish Saab fighter jets fly

The Swedish Aviation Museum displays Saab fighters and historic aircraft that trace the development of the national aerospace industry born at Linköping during the twentieth century.

Just steps away, the Cathedral of Linköping, Gothic in style, remains one of the best-preserved medieval religious buildings in all of central Sweden.

Heading toward the center, you visit the Gamla Linköping Open-Air Museum, which reconstructs an entire historic neighborhood with nineteenth-century houses transported from throughout the surrounding region.

As evening falls, the university district enlivens venues frequented by the city's vibrant student population, growing steadily over recent decades.

Linköping remains the historic seat of Saab, an aerospace manufacturer that developed some of the most advanced military fighters of the Cold War here, an industrial legacy still central to the city's economy and employment for thousands of engineers.

The Gamla Linköping Open-Air Museum collects over one hundred historic buildings transported from throughout the Östergötland region, recreating an entire functioning nineteenth-century village with still-active artisan shops.