The Borgholm Castle was built between 1669 and 1681 for Queen Hedvig Eleonora, and designed by Nicodemus Tessin the Elder. In its vicinity sits the Solliden Palace, summer home to the royal family.
The limestone pavement habitat of southern �land, known as Stora Alvaret. has been entered as a site of the UNESCO World Heritage program. Features of this are the manyrare species found; prehistory sites such as Gettlinge and Eketorp; numerous old wooden windmills left standing, some of which date to the 17th century; and the special geologicalalvar landscape.
For a decade, �land has been organizing an annual harvest festival called Sk�rdefesten that takes place every October. In terms of this event, the island's farmers gather with farmers from the rest of the country and sell their crops and let those that are interested take part in everyday life on their farms, among other activities. There are also many art exhibitions for display during Sk�rdefesten especially during the art night Konstnatten.
The romantic poet Erik Johan Stagnelius was born in the �land parish of G�rdsl�sa in 1793 and lived there until 16 years of age. He wrote several poems about the island. More modern writers living on or writing about �land include novelist Margit Friberg (1904�1997), poet Anna Rydstedt (1928�1994), novelist Birgitta Trotzig (1929-2011), poet Lennart Sj�gren (1930-), children novelist Eva Bexell (1945-), poet Tom Hedlund (1945-), novelist Johan Theorin (1963-), poet and novelist Magnus Utvik (1964-) and novelist Per Planhammar(1965-)
