It’s now possible to experience a world-unique sauna in the heart of Dalarna. As part of a guided tour, you can venture down into a disused mine to experience the newly opened sauna. You can also indulge in a mystical, atmospheric sauna ritual.
A pilot test of a brand new concept is currently in progress, with some of Dalarna's accommodation facilities being certified as Outdoor Qualified by Visit Dalarna. “As a certified Outdoor Qualified accommodation facility, we can create conditions to attract completely new target groups and offer more incentives for the visitor to travel,” says Andreas Hermansson, Outdoor business developer.
Visit Sweden’s yearly sales event, Swedish Workshop, is coming to Falun on May 18-19. Swedish Workshop is an incredibly valuable opportunity for creating and developing contacts with international tour operators, which in turn generate future long-term business partnerships for Dalarna's hospitality companies’, says Tatjana Summermatter, international business developer, Visit Dalarna.
Vasaloppet, the ski race between Sälen and Mora, is the world’s biggest long-distance ski race. In 2022, Vasaloppet will be 100 years old and celebrated with a Jubileumsvasa (Jubilee Vasaloppet), a race in tribute to the pioneers that put the first race together in 1922 with 139 participants. Also a new race, Vasaloppet 10, is intended to be a roughly 10 km long, 100th birthday party.
Lucia is celebrated in Sweden on the 13th of December with a 'Lucia procession'. Every year, a Lucia celebration is selected for broadcast on national television. This year, viewers will be heading to Tällberg, in the heart of Dalarna, which has been chosen for the broadcast of the Lucia procession.
The idea behind “The Edible Country” is to turn Sweden’s outdoors into a gourmet restaurant. Soon you can book an outdoor table in Grövelsjön. - Our table is focused on flavours from Sami cuisine and what nature provides, depending on the season. Visitors can also book us to prepare their food and hear more about life as a reindeer herder and about Sami culture, says Helena Andersson, Renbiten.
Taste of Dalarna is a network of farm shops, artisan producers, craft brewers, cafés and restaurants throughout Dalarna, all of whom are passionate about local produce and local flavours. On tasteofdalarna.se you will find a map showing the location of all the various restaurants, cafés and producers so that you easily can create your own food itinerary in Dalarna.
Sweden is the world’s most sustainable tourist destination. In Dalarna, focus on sustainability is a key factor on a municipal and regional level and for the local businesses. – Sustainability work is part of our business idea, it provides a structured approach that gives customers, employees, and the company a profile that everyone understands the benefits of, says Patrick Lund, Mora Hotel.
A healthy polar bear cub is born in Dalarna. It is unusual that polar bears have cubs in zoos, and only fifty percent of the cubs survive the first critical weeks. 'The first couple of weeks were nerve-racking of course, since it was a big risk that the cub would not survive', says Johanna Berglund, caretaker in the park.
Dalarna means the valleys and the province’s varied, unspoiled landscape is stretching from mighty mountains in the north to rolling farmland in the south. Dalarna is like Sweden in miniature. Culturally, Dalarna is the most Swedish of Swedish provinces too. The iconic Dala horse originates here, just like the red-painted cottages.
The Dala horse became world-famous at the 1939 New York World’s Fair and has been a Swedish icon ever since. The wooden horse can be bought everywhere in Sweden, but it has its roots in the village of Nusnäs outside of Mora in Dalarna. The Dala horse is hand-carved and then hand-painted in the traditional folk art style Dalarna is known for, called ‘kurbits’.
The Dalarna Culture Route is a truly special and unique journey. The cultural passport will help visitors to experience the essence of Dalarna’s cultural heritage by collecting the stamps, take part of special offers and carry out a cultural journey. When the visitor has collected all the stamps they will also have seen the largest cultural heritage sites Dalarna has to offer.
