As the northernmost city in Sweden, Kiruna is used to seemingly endless winters, short, cold summers, and relative isolation in the vast expanse of Swedish Lapland. Its population, just shy of 20,000, ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. David Nikel is a travel writer covering cruising and Scandinavia. In Northern Sweden, an entire city is being relocated in a ...

The relocation of Kiruna in Sweden’s Arctic has reached its most symbolic moment yet, as the city’s landmark wooden church is moved whole to a new site after standing in place for more than a century.

Sweden's historic Kiruna Church needed to be relocated due to an expanding iron ore mine in the area. Rather than demolishing it or trying to carefully disassemble it for the move, the decision was ...

When mining forced the Swedish town of Kiruna to move in 2014, city planners promised a fresh start. But residents say the new town has lost the warmth that defined the old one - both in spirit and ...

IN four years time, the sleepy northerly Swedish town of Kiruna will have relocated somewhere else due to large scale mining in the area. At the turn of the 19th century the area consisted of a ...

The Kiruna Church and its belfry are being moved this week along a 5-kilometer (3-mile) route east to a new city center as part of the town’s relocation. The world’s largest underground iron-ore mine ...

Kiruna Town Hall, designed by Danish studio Henning Larsen, is the first building completed as part of the £1 billion relocation of Sweden's northernmost town. Henning Larsen designed the circular ...

KIRUNA, Sweden–It is a tough slog trying to relocate an entire city—just ask the people of this Swedish mining town dozens of miles above the Arctic Circle. For the Kiruna municipality, the process ...

Kiruna, an iron ore mining town in Swedish Lapland 87 miles into the Arctic Circle, is sinking. Ten years ago, Sweden’s state-owned mining company LKAB, which supplies 90 per cent of the European ...