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The Best Attractions In Skelleftea

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Skellefteå is a city and the seat of Skellefteå Municipality in Västerbotten County, Sweden, with 32,775 inhabitants in 2010. The municipality had approximately 72,000 inhabitants at the end of 2013.The city is a historically industrial city with mining being a large industry, especially for gold – hence the nickname Gold Town. Politically it is a Social Democratic stronghold. The city is a well-known ice hockey town, with its main team Skellefteå AIK playing in the Swedish top division: the SHL, which they have won on several occasions. The city was incorporated in 1845 and grew to its current population size mostly in the 1950s and 1960s, growi...
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  • 2. Lejonstromsbron Skelleftea
    Lejonströmsbron is a wooden bridge in Skellefteå, Sweden, crossing Skellefte River between the boroughs Sunnanå and Prästbordet, near the parish church for Skellefteå landsförsamling. The bridge was completed in 1737 and is the oldest wooden bridge in Sweden. With its 207.5 meters Lejonströmsbron was for a long time Sweden's longest wooden bridge, until a 230-meter long wooden bridge was built in Gimonäs in Umeå in 2006.During its first years of operation there was a bridge toll to pass Lejonströmsbron, as follows: A walking person - 1 öre A rider on horseback - 3 öre Carts pulled by a horse - 6 öre Wagon pulled by several horses - 12 öreIn 1868 a speed limit was introduced over the bridge. If you drove or rode faster than a pedestrian, you could be fined five riksdaler. Lejo...
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  • 11. Vasterbottens Museum Umea
    Västerbottens museum in the Gammlia area of Umeå, Sweden is a county museum with responsibility for the cultural history of Västerbotten County. The museum consists of the Gammlia open-air museum, a ski exhibition , an exhibition of Fishing and Maritime , the popular movement archive of Västerbotten County and a number of Sami camps. The museum is working all over Västerbotten County with, amongst other things, numerous contract activities, mainly in the archaeological field. The museum produces the quarterly journal Västerbotten for the Västerbotten County district association.
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