The main railroad station is roughly one km north-to-northwest of the castle.
You simply follow Storgatan from the castle, make a left at Järnvägsgatan and stay on this street down to the railroad station.

Some of the "major downtown streets" in this city are Drottninggatan and Storgatan - shopping and restaurant streets -
running roughly from southwest to northeast, Järnvägsgatan, crossing Storgatan,
connecting the railroad station with the major regional hospital (RSÖ), Rudbecksgatan takes you from "the highrise Krämaren"
at the corner of Rudbecksgatan and Drottninggatan to the football and ice-hockey arena Eyravallen
 about a  kilometer southeast of  the castle.
Today you can find several restaurants and pubs with or without entertainment mainly concentrated to the center of town.




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The river Svartån runs from west through the city eastward into Lake Hjälmaren,
which used to make up for quite an important shipping & transportation route to Stockholm
and the East Coast of Sweden via  Lake  Mälaren.
 The river, Svartån, isn't exactly the ideal place to go swimming due to pollution of various sorts.
However, there are quite a few lakes in the county where you can go  swimming, e.g. Norasjön, Hjälmaren, Tisaren, Vättern,
Sottern, Laxsjöarna, Unden, Toften, Skagen and Möckeln.

The Infantry Training Regiment I3 once made its impact on this city but is closed down as so many other regiments throughout the country today.

Going west on highway E18 takes you to Karlskoga and Oslo and highway E20 takes you southwest to Göteborg (Gothenburg). 
 Going southwest on E20 you can pick up highway 50 south which will take you to Askersund, Motala and Jönköping and onto road E4
down to Helsingborg and further to Denmark and Germany.

Going east on E20 or E18 will get you to Stockholm.
Highway E18 runs the more northern route via Västerås
 and connects to highways going to Uppsala or Arlanda International Airport,
 some 35 kilometers north of Stockholm. 
Highway E20 east will  take you to Eskilstuna, Strängnäs, Södertälje and Stockholm.

Highway 50 will take you north to Nora, Lindesberg and  Falun.


"Riksväg 50 är en ca 486 km lång svensk riksväg
som går mellan Jönköping och Söderhamn"  (Wikipedia).

"Under perioden 1962-2001 hette bara delen (Jönköping–) Ödeshög–Örebro riksväg 50,
men 1 oktober 2001 slogs den samman med dåvarande riksväg 60 (tidigare Örebro–Falun),
länsväg 294 (Falun–Alfta) och en del av länsväg 301 till den nuvarande, längre riksväg 50"  (Wikipedia).

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Stora Hotellet & Svartån 2013-08-19

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Position på kartan...

Lat: N 59º 16' 26.3"
Long: E 15º 12' 57.76"

Bra karta?

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Stadsparken i Örebro
        
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Svartån, nära Hamnplan



        
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Wadköping

  
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On Salt

Way, way back in the Roman times, the Roman soldier was given an allowance to pay for the salt he needed.
The Latin word for salt is "sal".  Today there's a word meaning wages paid by the month (or by the year). 
Yes, "salary" is the word. Funny, isn't it ?
Now, I assume you know that salt is a substance also referred to as Sodium Chloride or NaCl.
Throughout history one can read stories about how food of all sorts was preserved,
cured or impregnated with salt mainly to store, preventing it from turning sour.
Salt used purely for seasoning purposes is probably a rather late habit of man.

"Saltern" is the building in which salt is made by boiling or evaporation, also a salt-works, a plot of land,
laid out in pools and walks, in which sea-water is allowed to  evaporate naturally.
Words related to the word salt are found in Italian and Spanish  names of particular dances,
often implying a dance of some sort containing sudden jerking movements, leaping, jumping,
or some sudden change of movement (1600s and 1700s).

There is also early use of the word salt in connection with a description of the sexual desire and excitement of a bitch (1600s).
Salt was "sealt" in Old English, then later it developed into "salt".

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