What can you do in Hälsingland and what can you see and experience? We have not been here as writers and if we go here we will experience, Järvsöbacken, Järvzoo, Stenegård, Ljusdalsbygdens museum, Öjeberget, Ulrika Eleonora church in Söderhamn, stora hälsingegårdars väg, Bodagrottorna in Iggesund, Delsbo forngården, Orbaden in Vallsta, Emigrant Museum in Alfta, Trolldalen in Vaxbo,

Things to see and do in Hälsingland

Göra i Hälsingland

Hälsingland is a province in southern Norrland in central Sweden. It is bordered to the south by Gästrikland, in the west to Dalarna and Härjedalen, in the north to Medelpad and to the east the Bothnian Sea. The landscape has around 150 000 visible ancient monuments.

Göra i Hälsingland
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Hälsingland coat of arms on the Suecia work in the 17th century.

Things to see and do in Hälsingland - facts

  • Part of the country: Norrland
  • County: Gävleborg County, Jämtland County, Västernorrland County
  • Pin: Uppsala Diocese
  • City of residence: Gävle
  • Biggest lake: The Dellen Lakes formed by a meteorite about 100 million years ago.
  • Largest island: Iggesund Island (Sweden's thirty-fourth largest island)
  • Highest point: Garpkölen - 671 metres above sea level.
  • Surface: 14 264 km 2
  • Population: 131 173 (2019)
  • Titular: Duchess Princess Madeleine
  • Element: Nickel
  • Insect: Sulphur yellow court jester
  • Landscape fish: Id
  • Landscape moss: Large bear moss
  • Landscape stone: Dellenite
  • Landscape singing: Did you see that land, Hälsingesången
  • Landscape bird: Barn owl
  • Landscape flower: Linen
  • Landscape animals: Lynx
  • Landscape mushrooms: Pale thorn fungus
  • Landscape apples: Bergvik apple
  • Constellation: The Lion
  • Star: Regulus
  • Weapons: A shield with a black field, a buck in gold with red horns and hooves
  • Nature reserve: Agön-Kråkön Nature Reserve, Kölberget Nature Reserve, Bodagrottorna Iggesund, Kölberget Nature Reserve, which you cross on the Hälsingland Trail, Kyrkön Nature Reserve.
  • Cultural reserve: Västeräng cultural reserve in Hudiksvall municipality in Hälsingland, about farm environment (hälsingegård) and agricultural landscape. Västeräng is a village with four farms outside Delsbo and the farms (fäbodarna) Ersk-mickels, Ol-Ers and Schäftners are located together, while the fourth one called Bommens is a little outside.
  • Våsbo fäbodar in the municipality of ovanåker in Hälsingland with a fädbod environment and agricultural landscape. Four of the valleys (sites) are located north of Lake Våsen, and about a kilometre north of both Edsbyn and the home village of Roteberg. Very little has changed since 1800.
  • National Park: Hamra National Park in Ljusdal municipality
  • Largest centres: Hudiksvall, Bollnäs, Söderhamn, Ljusdal, Edsbyn and Iggesund.
  • Largest watercourse: Ljusnan, which is 443 kilometres long
  • Landscape law: Elk mince pies with pear porridge, pork, barley and root vegetables, Hälsingland cheesecake, Hälsingland hamboni. More about Swedish food.
  • Main sights:  Järvsöbacken, Järvzoo, Stenegård, Ljusdalsbygdens museum, Öjeberget, Ulrika Eleonora church in Söderhamn, stora hälsingegårdars väg, Bodagrottorna in Iggesund, Delsbo forngården, Orbaden in Vallsta, Emigrant Museum in Alfta, Trolldalen in Vaxbo,
  • Famous people: Artist Barbro "Lill-Babs" Svensson, professional footballer Thomas Brolin, TV personality Agneta Sjödin, Po Tidholm, singer Kikki Danielsson, actor Peter Stormare, personality Victoria Silvstedt.
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