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Mountainbike Sweden Åre Sunshine 02
Mountainbike Sweden Åre Sunshine. This photograph is used as a geographic witness to the place, not as evidence of the historical date shown in the chapter.
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- Mountainbike Sweden Åre Sunshine
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BEFORE MODERN SPORT
Åre
How settlement, access and winter sport shaped Åre.
Scroll to read the contour through time
Åre is a locality and one of the leading Scandinavian ski resorts situated in Åre Municipality, Jämtland County, Sweden with 3,200 inhabitants in 2018.
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BEFORE TOURISM
Work and settlement beneath the snowline
Sami people settled in the mid-17th century to take advantage of good reindeer pasture.
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1882
A route reaches Åre
Tourism started to grow with the establishment of a railroad in 1882, and Åre's first Grand Hotel was erected in 1896.
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Åre panorama from top
View from the top of Åre ski center. This photograph is used as a geographic witness to the place, not as evidence of the historical date shown in the chapter.
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- View from the top of Åre ski center
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1954
Winter becomes organised
It hosted the Alpine World Championships in 1954, 2007 and 2019, and has hosted more than 100 FIS Alpine Ski World Cup events throughout the years.
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THE LIVING MAP
The mapped place
Åre is recorded at 63.398° N, 13.079° E. Its catalogue reference reaches 1,274 metres. A modern resort map compresses terrain, exposure and access into a diagram. This exhibition keeps the underlying contour visible so the place does not become only a list of facilities.
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Mountainbike Sweden Åre Sunshine 02
Mountainbike Sweden Åre Sunshine. This photograph is used as a geographic witness to the place, not as evidence of the historical date shown in the chapter.
- Visual description
- Mountainbike Sweden Åre Sunshine
- Nature
- original
- Medium
- Open-licence photograph
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- Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0
TODAY
Åre now
Taking advantage of the Åreskutan fell, Åre Ski Area has become the major centre for alpine skiing in Sweden, sporting more than 30 modern ski-lifts.
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THE LEDGER
Sources and credits
This exhibition is built from local, institutional and sporting records. The source ledger keeps the claims visible and leaves space for correction as further local evidence emerges.
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Artefacts in order of appearance
Mountainbike Sweden Åre Sunshine 02
AOD.EU.ARE.V00 · original · Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0
Åre panorama from top
AOD.EU.ARE.V01 · original · Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0
Editorial record
Full European Beta edition. Place evidence is adapted from the linked Åre overview under CC BY-SA 4.0 and remains subject to named historical and local review. Cartography is generated from the PeakWave location catalogue.