Jaap van 't Veen's photos with the keyword: Simrishamn Municipality

Kungagraven (King's Grave) is a grand Nordic Bronze Age double burial, about 3.500 years old. Thee mound has a diameter of 75 metres. The site has been used as a quarry and its stones carried off for other uses. The cists are adorned with petroglyphs carved into the stones. In 1748 two farmers discovered the 3.25 meter tomb constructed with ten slabs of stone. Several years passed before it was discovered that the slabs of stone in the tomb were adorned with petroglyphs. Between 1931–1933 a thorough excavation was undertaken and the remains of a Stone Age settlement were found under the massive cairn. The mound has been named Kungagraven due to its size, long before it was known to contain two burials. The restoration of the site was based on etchings from the 18th century and conjecture. A new chamber was constructed out of concrete and a tunnel extended into the cists. It is possible for visitors to enter the tomb and to see the engraved stones.

Sankt Nicolai kyrka (St. Nicholas’ Church) is dating back to the 12th century and was first mentioned in 1161. The nave was added during the next century. The church - named after Sankt Nicolaus, the patron saint of the sea men - was originally a chapel for fishermen and as the town expanded, has been built on substantially. It became its present size at the end of the Middle Ages. The exterior of the church was changed in 1953 when the white plaster was knocked down and the original facade of quartzite appeared, something that gives the church its external character. The church is located in the centre of the city of Simrishamn, next to the Stortorget, the central square. The flowers are from a Crimson Hawthorn.

Glimmingehus is considered to be the best-preserved medieval castle in Sweden. The construction of the castle was started in 1499 (completed in 1505) knight Jens Holgersen Ulfstand, who apparently terrorised the farmers of the region in the service of the king of Denmark. Sweden’s province of Skåne was part of Denmark at the time. The impressive castle is more of a ‘keep’. Glimmingehus contains many defensive arrangements of that era, such as parapets, false doors and dead-end corridors, 'murder-holes' for pouring boiling pitch over the attackers, a moat and drawbridge. The castle is 30 meters long, 12 meters wide; the highest point comes to almost 26 meters. The lower part of the castle's stone walls are 2.4 meters thick and the upper part 1.8 meters. Glimmingehus looks imposing, just a big stone box located on the vast fields of Österlen. Nowadays the castle is a museum; on site there are also a restaurant with medieval dishes, a shop and a coffee house.