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Stortorget is Malmö's main square, laid out from 1538 after the Monastery of the Holy Spirit and its cemetery were cleared. It is lined by the Town Hall of 1547, the Governor's Residence, Jørgen Kock's House and the Hotel Kramer, and at its centre stands John Börjeson's equestrian statue of King Charles X Gustav, made for the exhibition of 1896.

Lilla Torg is a cobbled square in Malmö's old town, created in the 1590s as a market place beside Stortorget. A brick market hall covered it from 1903 until 1968; today it is framed by half-timbered and brick houses, among them Hedmanska gården from the 1590s and the Faxe House from the 1760s, whose ground floors hold restaurants with outdoor tables.

St. Peter's Church is Malmö's oldest preserved building, a three-aisled Brick Gothic basilica with transepts built in the 14th century as the town's only parish church. Inside are late medieval wall paintings and a carved altarpiece made in 1611, and the tower with its tall spire rises over the old town between Stortorget and the railway station.

Malmö Konsthall is a hall for contemporary art near Triangeln in central Malmö, designed by Klas Anshelm and built in 1971–1974 of concrete, glass, wood and aluminium. Its large open exhibition room, lit through skylights and a north-facing light well, hosts changing exhibitions, talks and films; the older Hantverkshuset next door holds the bookshop and restaurant.

Pildammsparken is a 45-hectare park in Malmö laid out around two former reservoirs that once supplied the town with water. It was the site of the Baltic Exhibition of 1914, from which the Margareta Pavilion and the flower-lined Blomstergatan survive, and its central lawn Tallriken, a circle 160 metres across, is used for events, with sculptures along the paths.