Erasmusu in Sweden (Pablo en)
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An entire year living in Sweden gives to you hundreds of experiences. And not all of them can be gathered in only one blog. This blog collect little experieces in Sweden, pieces of advise, unnoticed details, etc (en)
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An history without luck
Although Umea was founded in the early 1620’s, if you walk through its streets you won’t find any old building. You can not compare Umea with other Erasmus destinations in this sense. Therefore, Umea is not best known by its touristic places, although it can offer...
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The city devasted by fires
Birches are a very common tree in the nature lands along Sweden. But even though it, Umea is very well known in Sweden and other parts of the world as the City of Birches. Everywhere you walk in the city you will find them in the streets and parks. Silver birches, with...
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A Fast development
Umea was built in 1622 but until last decades it has not been a very important city in Sweden. The harsh climate, the long distance with the capital and the repetitive fires and Russians invasions that have devastated it are the reason. But since the middle of the last...
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Rivalry between neighbours.
Is it very interesting how history marks the development of the relationships between countries. In Spain, we have always studied at school about the historically rivalry between Spain, England and France, since it concerned very much. But this kind of rivalry has...
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Umea, the sunny city?
It is really funny to see how Umea citizens are very proud of the amount of annual hours of sunshine they have. In several touristic information I have always read: “Come to Umea, the city with more than 1800 annual hours of sunshine! ” Ok, it is possible than they...
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A University city
Umea is a young city. Not only because of his recent history but due to the quick development since 1965, when the university was established. The importance of its 2 universities, Umea University and the Forestry School of SLU (the Swedish University of Agricultural...
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A young city for young people
As I told you, Umea is a very young city. It has to be it, since it was named Youth Municipality of the Year in 2008. This award was given due to the great effort of the city the involvement of the young people and its future. The young character of the Umea city is...
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Festival Umeå Autumn light
On Friday, November 19, 2010 the fifth edition of the Festival Umeå Autumn light was ingaugurated. With the theme;Love in Umeå,; reflected the festival of love, the love of the city, to each other, to the light or perhaps the unfortunate love. Love characterizes our...
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The Night Forest
As I told you in other post, during the month of November, the fifth edition of the Festival Umeå Autumn light was inaugurated. It consisted of different light installations with love as the basis at various locations in central Umeå. Several of these light...
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1000s lamps
The fifth edition of the Festival Umeå Autumn light consisted on different light installations designed by artists which involved light as a tool to reference to the love of this city. But, despite being designed by specialist, the community was also involved on it....
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Love - a tribute to Umeå and its inhabitants
In the middle of town, on one of the most central locations in Umeå – the Vasagatan façade, the ligth installation ”Love - a tribute to Umeå and its inhabitants” was chosen to be placed., in the context of the fifth edition of the Festival Umeå Autumn light....
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Ice love
The fifth edition of the Festival Umeå Autumn light consisted on different light installations designed by artists which involved light as a tool to reference to the love of this city. All of them were beautiful, but the one that I most liked was this one. Iskärlek,...
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Love-play
Among the light installations of the fifth edition of the Festival Umeå Autumn one of them covered an entire square with a play-garden, named “Kär-lek”, or “Love-play”. It was placed in the Renmarkstorget, the square in front of the Tourist office. It...
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Booty Call
Among the light installations of the fifth edition of the Festival Umeå Autumn, one of them was very curious and, at the same time, very funny. It was placed in Kungsgatan, the main commercial street of Umea. The art work, called “Booty Call”, was a humorous...
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Dancefloor in the park
Other funny installation of the fifth edition of the Festival Umeå Autumn is called Ballroom, and it was placed in the Rådhusparken park. The dance floor is a natural place for budding love. Therefore the artists of the installation wanted to invite you to dance in...
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Unrequited love
A light installation of the fifth edition of the Festival Umeå Autumn is located at the river bank, using the trees of the south of the Station Café. The art work is named Unrequited love and was made by the artist Sofie Weibull. It was built with plexiglass and...
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Meeting Light
Another light installation of the fifth edition of the Festival Umeå Autumn was located at the river bank, using the trees in the southern part, in Varvsgatan. It was named “Meeting Light” and designed by True Ahrens and Therese Sundqvist. South bank of the river...
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the Glass House 2014
One of the symbols of Umea as the European Capital of Culture 2014 is the Glass House 2014. It is located in the City Hall Square, in the centre of Umea downtown, just at the site of the statue of the Standing Man. This building is a cube that measures 5. 5m per side...
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the Credo 2014
One of the activities that is included in the schedule program of the Glass House 2014 is the Credo 2014 Project. It takes place ach day at noon inside this house. It consist of the presentation in short speech of different people from the city, old or young, famouns or...
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The 8 seasons of the European Capital of Culture year of Umea 2014
The activities during the European Capital of Culture year of Umea 2014 follow a scheduled program. The character of the activities depends on the time of the year, of course. They are different depending on the season of the year, since they affect us in or way of...
