General issues • Surface: 449.964 km• Language: Swedish, plus as
minority: Yiddish, Romani, Sami, Meankieli and Finland.
• 87% Luterans• Population: 9,644,864• Density: 20.6/km^2• Indepence: 6/6/1523 from
Denmark• Constitutional Monarchy• Prime minister: Fredrik
Reinfeldt
• National anthem: Du gamla, du fria
• Royal motto: «For Sverige i tiden»
• National holiday: 6/6• Currency: Swenks krona• GPA: $393.774 billion• UTC +1• In ONU since 10/19/1946• EU member since 1/1/1995• Seats in EEP: 20
About history
• Swedish middle age starts with the arrival of the benedectine monk Ansga (Fr) in 829
• In 1000 the king Olof Skotknung converted and starts contacr with European culture
• Between XII-XVIII The Anseatic League was born (confederation of nordic city)
• 1510-20 King Christian II of Denmark invades the country and executes many Swedish noblemen
• The Church was opposing to a strong monarchy and the Parliament declares that the king is also the head of the swedish Church
• Gustav Vasa excapes from the jail and he conquers Stockholm
Stockholm• Aka «northern Venice»• 59°21’N 18°4’E• Stockholm was an
important place for iron’s commerce (from the cave of Bergslagen)
• It’s said that Birger Jarl is the founder of Stockholm to protect Sweden from the invasions from the sea
• 1252: for the 1° time Stockholm is mentioned in an official document
• 1419: Stockholm becomes capital city
• 1520: Massacre ordered by Christian II of Denmark
• 1521: Gustav Vasa enters Stockholms and for Sweden starts a new Era
Lappland• Samis are the inhabitants
of Lappland• Lappland is divided
between Norway, Sweden, Finland and Russia
• Lappland covers ¼ of Sweden’s territory
• Main activity: Sami’s breeding of reideens
• Most important city: Kiruna
Kiruna 1/27-2/1: Annual snow festival
which includes:1. Open Swedish Chammpionish
in show scultures)
2. Jumps with snowmobile
3. Reindeer riding
4. Exposition of pulling dogs
LKAB Infomine, the biggest underground mine in the world
An aerospacial center can be visit (Esrange) and from here is possible to start a travel of 2h to pierce the Borealis Aurora
Ice Hotel (Jukkasjarvi) This particular hotel is built
from 30.000 tons of snow and from 4000 ice blockes.
This hotel is built with the same technique used by US Army during the 2° world war.
This hotel counts nearly 60 rooms, an hall, a bar (sponsored by Absolute vodka), a church and a open theatre.
The structure is made is made between october and december and lasts until april.
Harads’ Hotel Britta and Kent Lindvall wanted
to give to turists in which they were in touch with nature
Each ‘room’ is made of a cube (4x4x4) of aluminium (with a mirror glass)
A room has:
1. A bed
2. An hall
3. A kitchen
4. A bathroom
5. A deck on the top
Midsummer 2° for importance The region of Dalecarlia (N-O of
Stockholm) follows strictly the tradition and the inhabitants wear traditional costumes
Picking upflowersis the main activity of the festival(flowers compose wreath which decorate the tree)
The tree is the fulcrum of the festival
Traditional menù: Potatoes, Snaps, Salmon and Herrings
Bjorn Rune Borg For six times, Borg had
been n° 1 of men’s ranking (in total 109 weeks)
He gained two times the Gold Medal from Svenska Dagbladet
Palmarès:• 6 «French Open»• 5 in-a-row at
Wimbledon• 2 Masters Cups
Ingemar Stenmark 86 wins in the World Cup He gained two times the
Gold Medal from Svenska Dagbladet
In 1979, Stenmark recived a very important prize, the Holmenkollen medal, which is the most important medal for the Alpine Skiing
Event 1° 2° 3°
Olympic Games 2 0 1
World Championship 3 1 0
Total 5 1 1
Nils Liedholm Position: Att midfielder Nickname: «The Baron» Total score: 137 4° eldest player with
Milan (38 years) Palmarès as player:
• 4 Serie A• 2 Allsvenskan• 2 Latin Cups• 1 Olympic Gold
Medal, (London 1948) Palmarès as trainer:
• 2 Serie A • 3 Coppe Italia
Gunnar Gren Position: Forward Nickname:
«The Professor» Total score in Serie A:
45 (for 217 apps) He played also in
Fiorentina & Genoa Palmarès as player:
• 1 Serie A• 1 Allsvenskan• 1 Latin cup• 1 Guldbollen• 1 Gold Medal,
(London 1948)
Gunnar Nordahl Position: Striker Nickname: «The Fireman» Apps/Gls: 172 (149) in
Allsvenskan Apps/Gls: 221 (210) in Serie A Palmarès as player:
• 4 Allsvenskan • 4 Allsvenskan Top
Scorer • 2 Swedish Cup• 2 Serie A • 5 Serie A top Scorer• 4 Coppe Italia• 2 Latin Cups • 1 Olympic Gold Medal,
London 1948• 1 Olympic Games Top
Scorer
Zlatan Ibrahimovic Position: Striker Only Ibrahimovic won 8
Guldbollen (7 of this were in-a-row)
He gained a black belt in Taekwondo
Ibrahimovic played in Sweden (Malmo FC), Netherlands (Ajax), Italy (Juventus, Inter and Milan), Spain (Barcellona) and France (Paris Saint-Germain)
He refused to go to London (Arsenal) and he said: «Zlatan doesn’t need to do any audiction»
He is the current captain and the strongest player of Sweden’s national team
Ibrahimovic’s palmarèsClubo (A) Eredivisie (2):o KNVB Cup (1):o Johan Cruijff Shield o (J) Serie A (2): 2004–05, 2005–06 (both
revoked due to the Calciopoli scandal)o (I)Serie A (3)o Supercoppa Italiana (2)o (B) La Liga (1):o Supercopa de España (2)o UEFA Super Cup (1)o FIFA Club World Cup (1)o (M) Serie A (1): o Supercoppa Italiana (1)o (P) Ligue 1 (1)o Trophée des champions (1)
Individualo Golden Foot (1): 2012o FIFA Puskás Award (1): 2013o FIFPro World XI (1): 2013o UEFA Team of the Year (3): 2007, 2009, 2013o UEFA Champions League 2012-13: Highest Assists [69]o ESM Team of the Year (3): 2006–07, 2007–08, 2012–13o Ligue 1 Player of the Year (1): 2012–13o Ligue 1 Team of the Year (1): 2012–13o Ligue 1 Top Goalscorer (1): 2012–13o Serie A Top Scorer (2): 2009, 2012o Serie A Foreign Footballer of the Year (5): 2005, 2008,
2009, 2011, 2012o Serie A Footballer of the Year (3): 2008, 2009, 2011o Serie A Team of the Year (2): 2010–11, 2011–12o Supercoppa Italiana 2011: Man of the Matcho Guldbollen (8): 2005, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011,
2012, 2013o Jerringpriset (1): 2007o Swedish Male Athlete of the Year (2): 2007, 2010
ABBA 1970-1982 Total album. 8 1974: ABBAs win the
Eurofestival with Waterloo
Nearly 400 million copies
Only Volvo gained more than ABBAs
In Stockholm there’s a museum dedicated to ABBA
BASSHUNTER Jonas Erik Altberg aka
Basshunter, is a Swedish singer, songwriter, record producer, and DJ (Electronica, eurodance, trance and electronic dance).
Basshunter has so far released a total of six albums, two of which have been released in the United Kingdom.
Greates hits:
1. Boten Anna
2. Vi sitter i Ventrilo och spelar Dota
3. Now You're Gone
4. All I Ever Wanted
DADA LIFE The duo consists of Olle Corneer
and Stefan Engblom and was formed in 2006
Their simbol is a champagne bottle between two bananas
In two years they … of DJ Magazine's Top 100, from position #89 to #24
On October 26, 2013, Dada Life broke the Guinness World Record for the world's largest pillow fight at a Dada Land Compound event at the Aragon Ballroom in Chicago and had 3,813 participants
In fall 2012, Dada Life embarked on a tour of the same name, visiting over 40 cities in the US and Canada, playing to over 100,000 fans and reportedly using more than 8,000 lbs of bananas and 3,000 bottles of champagne
SWEDISH HOUSE MAFIA Swedish House Mafia was a
Swedish electronic dance music which officially formed in late 2008.
The supergroup placed at number ten on the DJ Magazine Top 100 DJ Poll 2011 and have been called "the faces of mainstream progressive house music."
In the DJ Magazine Top 100 Poll 2012 they were ranked at number 12
On June 24, 2012, the group announced via their website that they would split up after embarking on "One Last Tour," which ended at Ultra Miami 2013 on March 24, 2013.
The instruments that they used were: music sequencer, synthesiser, sampler, drum machine, personal computer, turntables, keyboard and Logic Pro.
Ingmar Bergman He is recognized as one of
the most accomplished and influential film directors of all time.
He was gratuated in history and in licterature.
He falls in love with the theatre, later he meets cinema and he starts a new carrier
Bergman became famous in ‘50s with “The seventh Seal”
3 Oscars for the Best Foreign Film
6 Golden Globe for the Best Foreign Film
Ingrid Bergman She won three Academy
Awards, two Emmy Awards, four Golden Globe Awards and the Tony Award for Best Actress.
She is ranked as the fourth greatest female star of American cinema of all time by the American Film Institute.
She’s famous for:
1. Casablanca
2. Cary Grant (by A. Hitchcock)
3. For Whom the Bell Tolls
4. Under Capricorn
Greta Garbo Her real name is Greta Lovisa
Gustafsson Nickname «La divina» One of the most famous
actress of all time 13 mute Films and 15 with the
sound Federico Fellini named her
«La fata severa» because ‘she is the founder of a religious order called cinema’
1 oscar of the carrier 4 nominations for «Best
actress»:
1. Anna Christie, 1930
2. Romance, 1930
3. Margherita Gauthier, 1937
4. Ninotchka, 1939
Kerstin Anita Marianne Ekberg
Anita Ekberg is surely a famous actress thanks to Federico Fellini with:
«La dolce vita»
«Boccaccio 70»
Apart these two films, she hadn’t realized anything relevant.
Percy Barnevik Percy Nils Barnevik (born 13
February 1941) is a Swedish business executive, aka, CEO and later Chairman of Asea Brown Boveri (ABB).
Co-Founder of Hand-in-Hand, a no-profict organisation.
For many times Fortune named him manager of the year.
Quotes: Think global and act of local. Someone is a leader if he is
able to persuade his colleagues to do something impossible, in theirs opinion, and he helps them.
Carl von Linné His father was very interested
in botanic and changed his surnane in Linneus (latin form of Linn «Linden», tiglio)
He laids the foundations for the modern biological naming scheme of binomial nomenclature.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau sent him the message: "Tell him I know no greater man on earth.“
Carl von Linné created three different classifications for:
1. Plants (24 Classis)
2. Animals (6 Classis)
3. Minerals (4 Classis)
Alfred Nobel Swedish chemist, engineer,
innovator, and armaments manufacturer, Alfred nobel is famous for his invenction, the Dynamite
He invented dynamite while he was trying to give to Sobrero’s discovery something to control her power, the nitro-glycerin
Clay+nitro-glycerin=Dynamite After this discover, Nobel founded
many companies to test Dynamite and he became rich
In his will, the claimed his volunty to give his money to deserving people who does something important for:
1. Chemistry 2. Literature3. Peace4. Physics5. Medicine
About «the Vasa» It’s the only vassel left of the
XVII century 52m x 69m x 1200tonns 95% of the vassel is original In 1990, Carl Gustav XVI
inagurated a museum for the Vasa The king Gustav II Adolf wanted
his construction A crew of 400 people, under the
supervision of Henrik Hybertson, construpted this vassel and they took 2 years to finish it
The mistery of runic stones 800-1050 Vicking age It’s said that Odin sculpted
them in order to spreed misteries of Sky and Earth
The first stone translated shows the mistery of Sigurd the nordic version of st. George
Not much left about Middle age because culture was spreaded with an oral tradition
No paper? Use stones! Rok Runestone shows the
longest story about nordic legends
Ale’s stones 59 stones in a vertical position Noboby knows the reason for
this name The structure of Ale’s Stones is
a «Stone boat» (67X19 m) 1500-1000 a.C, Iron Age Actually, nobody knows the
function of Ale’s Stones:• Place for the workship of the
Sun• Like a Calendar to understand
when were solstices
Skansen• Skansen is the first open air
museum and zoo in Sweden and is located on the island Djurgården in Stockholm, Sweden.
• It was founded in 1891 by Artur Hazelius to show the way of life in the different parts of Sweden before the industrial era.
• This horse is a symbol of Sweden. The King donated, as a gift, one to Clinton when he came to Sweden.
• Skansen also shows a miniatury of an average city.
The «big six»1. Brown Bear
2. Wolf
3. Lynx
4. Wolverine
5. Moose
6. Muskox
1. 2.3m x 1.25m x 350 kg
2. it’s not easy to see a wolf, 70 kg
3. lives in the northern area, but as well as for wolves is not easy to find a linx, 1,30m
4. Only 100 are survived and they are very protected, they attack Sami’s reindeers because they have problems in founding their loot
5. They are loot for hunters
6. 225-400kg, they can reach 60kph