Kalmar län och Öland
Iglasjön is located about 11 km southwest of Torsås. A cozy lake with a jetty and barbecue area. Iglasjön is one of the municipality's largest lakes. In terms of size, it measures eight hectares, has an average depth of 1.5 meters and measures at most a dep…
Barnebo with its mighty stone walls from the 1860s and the beautiful giant oak is well worth a visit. Adjacent to the stone wall is old pastureland with an interesting herb flora.
Transjön is Torsås municipality's largest lake. A lovely excursion destination, with an associated nice barbecue area. Transjön borders the villages of Torhult, Skruvemåla, Lövsmåla, Kringlemåla and Troxhult.The length of the lake is about 1000 meters and h…
Känn historiens vingslag på denna magiska plats där resterna efter Emmas torp finns. Väl där, kan man läsa om Emmas öde och om hur hon överlevde sina tre män och 11 barn.
The Thuja forest was planted in the 19th century. Severe storms in recent years have taken a heavy toll on the stately stand and today only a few trees remain. The ongoing restoration of the adjacent younger tuja stands has unfortunately also been severely…
Oldest is the 350-year-old Bogate Pine, long dead but still standing
The Trollskogen nature reserve is one of Öland's most visited nature areas. There are shingle fields, meadows with grazing animals and old pine forest where the ivy winds around many wide-crowned oaks. There are several hiking trails here and in Trollskogen…
Vilhelm Moberg's childhood school was built in the late 1870s, nestled in the forest of Påvelsmåla, where Moberg attended school from 1906 to 1912. In the 1930s, the outdated school was abandoned, and a new one was built in Moshult. In the 1960s, the origin…
From the trail you can see Lake Törn. The village center of Parismåla still has the old road in the center of the village. The winding gravel road and stone walls, mature pollarded trees, garden fences with gates to the road characterize the village. There…
A railroad runs from Trollskogen to Fagerrör, built in the early 1900s to transport timber from the crown park. Today, the railroad is open to tourists during the summers and the bathing area is a popular destination.
The Gullabosleven is carved in oak. It was made for the Gullabo Craft Fair in 2000. The material used was a 5 m long oak log weighing about 4 tons. The ladle is 4.64 meters long and 1.07 meters wide and weighs 350 kilos. The wooden ladle is said to be one o…
In the northern part of Hallasjö there is an ancient ecclesiastical monument in the form of a plague cemetery. One half of the impediment (the unusable ground) has been excavated and during this work human bones were found. A wooden cross has been erected o…
Welcome to visit the wolf pit in Fastlycke - one of Kalmar County's best preserved wolf pits! In Magnus Eriksson's law from the 14th century, it was prescribed that every farm should keep wolf nets. In 1864 this obligation ceased to apply and thereafter wol…
The watermill was built in 1882 and operated until the 1920s. The water mill was probably built in 1882 by the farmer Johan Jonasson who owned the farm Norra Gullabo 1:8. The mill was in operation until the 1920s when it was donated to Torsås Hembygdsföreni…
Bevarad varggrop lokaliserad i Väghyltan. Vargen var ett stort problem fram till mitten av 1800-talet och människorna byggde därför varggropar för att fånga in dem. En djup grop grävdes och täcktes med ris och på en spetsad stolpe i mitten agnades ett bete.…
