Where to stay in Bollmora
Most beds sit near the central square and the main road that runs in from Stockholm, within easy reach of the shops, the bus lines, and the wider district of Tyresö. The centre suits travellers who want quick transport into the capital and a quieter base on its south-eastern edge. Hotel rooms are few.
Out toward the lakes and the wooded shore, holiday cabins, guest rooms, and self-catering houses open through the warmer months for the families and walkers who come for the water, the forest, and the Baltic skerries beyond, and these fill quickly across the high weeks of summer. The neighbouring districts of Trollbäcken and Älta hold further rooms among the houses and woods. Book ahead in peak season.
Central Stockholm lies a short ride to the north-west, and many visitors choose its wide range of hotels and travel out to Tyresö by day.
About Bollmora
What is Bollmora known for?
Bollmora is a post-war suburb. It forms the built-up core of Tyresö, south-east of Stockholm, where rows of apartment blocks and a central square rose to house the growing capital in the decades after the war. The lakes and forest lie close.
Tyresö stretches out toward the wooded shores and the open Baltic skerries beyond, while the churches of Bollmoradalen, Trollbäcken, and Älta serve the districts that make up the surrounding suburban town.
What are the main landmarks in Bollmora?
Bollmoradalens kyrka stands among the blocks of the central district, a modern parish church of the post-war town. Trollbäckens kyrka and Älta kyrka serve the neighbouring districts to the west and north. The square is the social hub.
Trollbäckens IP draws crowds to its pitches and tracks, the everyday heart of local sport, while the lakes, the wooded shore, and the open skerries beyond the edge of Tyresö are the great draw for walkers and bathers. The forest paths and the water are sights in their own right.
What is the history of Bollmora?
It began as farmland. For centuries the ground south-east of Stockholm was open country of farms, forest, and lakeshore in the parish of Tyresö, far from the city and its trade. The capital's growth changed all that.
In the decades after the war, when Stockholm spread outward in search of housing, the fields of Bollmora were built over with apartment blocks, a central square, and the services of a planned suburb laid out to take the overflow. The town grew fast. Bollmora became the built-up core of Tyresö, gathering shops, schools, and churches around its square, and the older hamlets of Trollbäcken and Älta filled in with houses as the district spread toward the lakes.
The shore held its appeal. Even as the suburb rose, the forests, lakes, and Baltic skerries on the edge of Tyresö kept their pull, and the town settled into its double life as a commuter base for the capital and a doorway to the water and woods beyond.
Where is Bollmora?
Bollmora lies in the south-eastern part of Stockholm County, on a rise of land between the lakes and wooded shores south-east of the capital. The town sits among forest, water, and low ridges, with lakes close at hand, the open Baltic skerries reaching out to the east, and the built-up edge of Stockholm running away to the north-west. The setting is suburban yet green.
Roads and bus lines tie the town to the capital, while the forest and the shore press in close around the edges of Tyresö.
What is the climate of Bollmora?
Bollmora has a cool temperate climate, like the rest of the Stockholm region. Winters are cold, with frost, snow, and short dark days through the heart of the season, though the nearby Baltic softens the deepest cold that grips the country further inland and to the north. Summers stay mild and bright.
The lakes and shore around Tyresö draw their fullest crowds in the long, light weeks of high summer, when the evenings stretch far into the night. Rain and cloud are common across autumn and spring.
How do you get to Bollmora?
Bollmora sits a short way south-east of central Stockholm, linked to the city by main road and frequent buses. Drivers reach it easily from the capital and the southern suburbs. The lakes and shore lie close.
The nearest large airport and the main rail hubs lie in and around Stockholm to the north-west, which serve as the gateway, while local roads and bus lines tie the town to the wider districts of Tyresö around it.