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Rättvik Municipality is a Municipality in Dalarna County, in central Sweden. Its main city is Rättvik.
The municipality has a total population of 10 847. It covers an area of 1933.4 km² and has a population density of 6 inhabitants per km². The city itself has a population of 4,400.
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Geography
Rättvik municipality is situated in the middle of Sweden in the province of Dalecarlia, in between the three Swedish cities Borlänge, Falun and Mora.
It is located in a traditional forest and agriculture environment, which is how most of Sweden looked in the 19th century and earlier. Nowadays, its culture also attracts a significant number of tourists.
The area near Rättvik municipality has the highest population of Brown Bears in Sweden.
Culture
Rättvik is a worldwide-known small town because of its old tradition of folkmusic and the beauty of the surroundings close to Lake Siljan. Many tourists who are visiting Sweden go to Rättvik to experience a traditional Swedish and Scandinavian way of living. In the little village of Nusnäs, the original Dalecarlia Horses or Dalahästar – a handsculpted wooden horse colored orange red and painted with a special pattern – are still being crafted and sold.
Its culture and landscape are by some regarded as being as genuinely Swedish as it gets, at least if genuinely means the image Swedes have from the books of the Nobel Prize winning native authors Vilhelm Moberg and Selma Lagerlöf. For instance, Rättvik still has its picturesque old church located by the water, where it is surrounded by old log cabins where the woodcutters used to live.
Every year the festival "Music at Siljan" is held in the Rättvik at the shore of Siljan.
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See also
External links
- Rättvik (http://www.rattvik.se/) - Official site
- Dalecarlia Horses (http://www.nohemslojd.se/svenska/sidor/products.shtml) - The Originalde:Rättvik