Music & culture

David Bengtsson

Ystad and Österlen's interest in culture is impossible to miss. Here live active theater companies next door to historical relics. Innovative design lives side by side with classical painting. Large music scenes offers current concerts and local outdoor cinemas show movies for smaller groups.

In villages and along country roads you will find dedicated craftsmen and booksellers, antique shops and flea markets, open studios and museums born of special interests. All year round, film, music and history live in the area, and every Easter the art round is a cultural injection that, together with the spring sun, fires the starting shot for the summer season.