Country Sweden Seat Färgelanda ISO 3166 code SE Province Dalsland | County Västra Götaland County Time zone CET (UTC+1) Municipal code 1439 | |
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Färgelanda Municipality (Färgelanda kommun) is a municipality in Västra Götaland County in western Sweden. Its seat is located in the town of Färgelanda.
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The present municipality was formed in 1974 when "old" Färgelanda Municipality (which in 1967 had absorbed Ödeborg) was amalgamated with Högsäter.
Its coat of arms are based on a medieval seal depicting a harrow. It symbolizes agriculture.
Localities
Tourism
The scarsely populated municipalities in the historical province of Dalsland, with a total of 50,000 inhabitants, have a unified tourism information. Färgelanda with its low population is preferring to boast its nature. There are several opportunities for fishing, and Ellenösjön is a popular lake for pikeperch fishing. The nature revserve in Kroppefjäll offers walking lines and a mountaneuos nature. There are also good possibilities for canoeing and swimming in the many lakes and streams.
Färgelanda also has an old and well-preserved ancient history. Rock carvings in Ödeborg are located by Brötegården Museum; furthermore there are some 140 grave fields from the Iron Age scattered in the municipality. Something in between a museum and a folk museum is Ödeborg's Fornsal, with more than 6,000 objects gathered from Dalsland in the last millennia.