Malmotown.com - The official tourism site of Malmö, Sweden

Malmö is a great city for shopping, with large shopping centres and smaller, more exclusive boutiques. Here you’ll find a wide range of designer and young and trendy fashions. And in terms of square feet, shopping space is due to increase over the next few years. Established shopping centres such as Triangeln, Caroli and Mobilia are expanding, and the end of 2012 will see the grand opening of Emporia in Hyllie, bringing 200 new stores to the mix.

To fully appreciate the breadth of Malmö’s culinary offerings, you need to dine at slightly brutal and innovative Bastard restaurant and visit the falafel van in central Rosengård.

Even if Malmö has previously – mainly in the 1960s and 1990s – had a well-renowned reputation for design, creativity is at an all-time high now in the 2010s. Just some of the new names – such as Hövding (Swedish for Chieftain), Apokalyps, Allthewaytoparis and Swedish Ninja – illustrate the level of self-confidence.

The oldest traces of humans in the Malmö area are a 13,000-year-old settlement discovered by archaeologists near Segebro. The Malmö area is unusually rich in heritage sites from every prehistoric period and provides archaeologists with an important research field for the understanding of how our own society has developed.