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We can offer wilderness around the corner, proper winters, light summers and time for one another. Lycksele, Town in Lapland, with a gilt-edged life.

Eight Seasons

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This year the Eight Seasons exhibition will be on display at the Forestry Museum in Lycksele - an object and picture narrative on the life and history of the Sami people.

The name of the exhibition refers to the Sami traditionally having divided the year into eight seasons in order to describe the seasonal changes.

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The Lycksele Sami heritage is on display at the Sami residence. Here you will find cots, sheds and an old Sami girls' school. We welcome anyone with an interest in the culture of the Nordic indigenous people. The Sámi Association

Lycksele's own Team Pontare wound up third in the 2009 Körslaget (Choir Battle) competition on TV4.

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Underground Church

The Underground Church at Kristineberg

lördag, 26 januari 2008

History
In the mid-1930s Boliden Mining Ltd started ore mining at Kristineberg. A totally new community grew up next to the deposit. Kristineberg could be compared with a new Klondyke. In 1943, when the dressing plant was finished, the company had about 500 employees, and the total population in the formerly rather small village was now close to 1 000 persons.

The Revelation
In 1946 something happened which really put Kristineberg on the map and made a great stir way outside Kristineberg and way outside county and country borders. When the smoke had settled after a blast about 100 metres down in the mine, a two-metre tall figure was discovered on the mine wall - a Christ figure had revealed itself. People flocked in order to look at Christ in glittering quartzite and with an ankle-length mantle. The shaft was filled up later on - but the discovery, which has inspired to a lot of works of art and prophesies, has never ceased to fascinate all over the world.

Text: Guldriket

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Daily guided tours at 13.00 and 15.00

Admission

Adults: SEK 160

Children under 12: SEK 100

Children under 6: Free of charge

Family (2 adults and a maximum of 3 children under 12): SEK 400

Last Updated ( måndag, 21 september 2009 )