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Culture & History in Halland
A borderland for centuries — Danish until 1645 — Halland keeps its history in fortresses, a bog-preserved medieval man, and a UNESCO-listed radio station.
Varberg Fortress guards the coast as it has since the 1280s; inside it, the county museum displays the Bocksten Man, one of Europe's best-preserved medieval bodies. East of town, the 1920s Grimeton Radio Station still transmits on machinery so remarkable UNESCO listed it.
Add Tjolöholm Castle's Arts-and-Crafts fantasy in the north, the Halmstad Group's surrealism at Mjellby, and a coastline of fishing-village heritage.
All culture & history in this guide
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Varberg Fortress
700 years of border history above the sea
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Grimeton Radio Station
UNESCO World Heritage — the last machine transmitter
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Tjolöholm Castle
Sweden's finest Arts-and-Crafts country house
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Halmstad Castle
The Danish king's coral-pink castle on the Nissan
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The Bocksten Man
A 14th-century man, clothes and all, found in a bog
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Mjellby Art Museum
Home of the surrealist Halmstad Group
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Hallands Konstmuseum
The county art museum on the Nissan in Halmstad
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Teckningsmuseet, Laholm
Sweden's museum of drawing
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Rian designmuseum
Design museum in Falkenberg's old granary
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Hallandsgården
Open-air museum of old Halland farm buildings
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Bexell's talking stones
Aphorisms carved on forest boulders at Torstorp
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Medieval churches
Romanesque stone churches across the plain
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History of Halland
From Danish province to Swedish beach county
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Fishing heritage
Harbours, smokehouses and the läge villages
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Public art in Halmstad
Picasso's Woman's Head and a town full of sculpture
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Varberg's kallbadhus
The 1903 Moorish-style cold bath house