Bara is a

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situated in

Svedala Municipality Svedala Municipality (''Svedala kommun'') is a municipality in Skåne County in southern Sweden, just southeast of Malmö. Its seat is located in the town of Svedala. The present municipality is the result of a series of amalgamations, carried ...

Skåne County Skåne County ( sv, Skåne län, link=no ), sometimes referred to as Scania County in English, is the most southern county, or , of Sweden, basically corresponding to the traditional province Scania. It borders the counties of Halland, Kronobe ...

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with 3,444 inhabitants in 2010. Bara is approximately 12 km east of central

Malmö Malmö (, ; da, Malmø ) is the largest city in the Swedish county (län) of Scania (Skåne). It is the third-largest city in Sweden, after Stockholm and Gothenburg, and the sixth-largest city in the Nordic region, with a municipal populat ...

History

North of Bara (area called Bara Kyrka) lies Bara church and in 1964, the construction of modern Bara started south of the

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. Originally Bara was its own municipality but in 1977 it became a part of

Community facilities

In Bara there are grocery stores and fast food, health and cultural services in the form of a dentist, health centre and library, as well as a bank, an ICA store and estate agents. Bara has two primary schools (Spångholmsskolan and Baraskolan) and four pre-schools. Spångholmskolan is currently undergoing renovation, and so are two of the four pre-schools. In October 2009, the idea of expanding and renewing central Bara began to take shape under the project name "New Bara." In short, the idea consists of "investments in housing, a completely new cityscape, commercial premises, services, new infrastructure and spectacular leisure attractions. In December 2010, a new multi-sports hall (Kuben) was inaugurated as part of this project, it is mainly used for sports or afterschool activities. Since then, 60 rental apartments have been built in the so-called "New Bara" and a total of over 1000 rental and residential apartments and villas are planned. On 14 February 2011 construction began on a new school in Bara. The name has not yet been determined.The new school in Bara
South of Bara lies a PGA golfcourse. It was introduced by

Annika Sörenstam Annika Charlotta Sörenstam (; born 9 October 1970) is a Swedish professional golfer. She is regarded as one of the best female golfers in history. Before stepping away from competitive golf at the end of the 2008 season, she had won 90 inter ...

on 12 June 2009.Annika Sörenstam inviger golfbanan

References

Populated places in Svedala Municipality Populated places in Skåne County {{Skåne-geo-stub