Rättvik Municipality

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**Rättvik Municipality (*Kommun*)**
Rättvik in Dalarna in Sweden Map outlining the municipalities of Sweden	Coat of arms Image:Rättvik.png
	Municipal facts
	Seat	Rättvik
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	County	Dalarna County
	Province	Dalarna
	Area Rank	1,932 km² 43rd of 290
	Population Rank (2005)	10,864 x of 290
	Population density	5.6/km²

Rättvik Municipality is a Municipality in Dalarna County, in central Sweden. Its main city is Rättvik with a population of 4,400.

1 Geography
2 Culture
- 2.1 Recourses
3 See also
4 External links

[edit] 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.

[edit] 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.

Rättvik's church

Its culture and landscape are by some regarded as being as genuinely Swedish as it gets. For instance, Rättvik still has its picturesque old church located by the water, where it is surrounded by old "church stables" where the church visitors used to leave their horses.

Every year the folk music festival "Music at Siljan" is held in Rättvik, by the shores of Siljan.

The annual summer opera festival, the Dalhalla Opera, takes place 7km north of the town in an open-air theatre located in a former limestone quarry.