🏛️ Mining Area of the Great Copper Mountain in Falun

← All sites

Falun Mine was a mine in Falun, Sweden, that operated for a millennium from the 10th century to 1992. It produced as much as two-thirds of Europe's copper needs and helped fund many of Sweden's wars in the 17th century. Technological developments at the mine had a profound influence on mining globally for two centuries. The mine is now a museum and in 2001 was designated a UNESCO World Heritage Site.

Read the full article on Wikipedia →

Quick facts

Mining Area of the Great Copper Mountain in Falun is a cultural World Heritage site in Sweden, in Europe. For the living forecast of the area, open World Weather; the details of why Mining Area of the Great Copper Mountain in Falun was inscribed are described by the sourced introduction above (from Wikipedia).

More sites in Sweden

Hanseatic Town of Visby · Naval Port of Karlskrona · Birka and Hovgårda · High Coast / Kvarken Archipelago · Skogskyrkogården · Engelsberg Ironworks · Laponian Area · Decorated Farmhouses of Hälsingland · Varberg Radio Station · Birka and Hovgården · Rock Carvings in Tanum · Church Town of Gammelstad, Luleå · Agricultural Landscape of Southern Öland · Grimeton Radio Station, Varberg · Decorated Farmhouses of Hälsingland · Royal Domain of Drottningholm.

Coordinates are an approximate site centre. Introduction & image: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0), cached 30 days; the page renders even if the feed is momentarily unreachable.