Reine is the

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Moskenes Municipality Moskenes is a municipality in Nordland county, Norway. The municipality comprises the southern part of the island of Moskenesøya in the traditional district of Lofoten. The administrative centre of the municipality is the village of Reine. Oth ...

Nordland Nordland (; smj, Nordlánnda, sma, Nordlaante, sme, Nordlánda, en, Northland) is a county in Norway in the Northern Norway region, the least populous of all 11 counties, bordering Troms og Finnmark in the north, Trøndelag in the south, N ...

county,

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. The

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is located on the island of

Moskenesøya Moskenesøya (lit. ''Moskenes Island'') is an island at the southern end of the Lofoten archipelago in Nordland county, Norway. The island is shared between Moskenes Municipality and Flakstad Municipality. The tidal whirlpool system known as Mos ...

in the

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, above the

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, about southwest of the town of Tromsø.

Reine Church Reine Church ( no, Reine kirke) is a parish church of the Church of Norway in Moskenes Municipality in Nordland county, Norway. It is located in the village of Reine. It is one of the two churches in the Moskenes parish which is part of the Lofo ...

is located here and it serves the northern part of the municipality. The village has a population (2018) of 314 which gives the village a

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of . The local newspaper is the ''

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''.

Overview

Reine has been a trading post since 1743. It was also a centre for the local fishing industry with a fleet of boats and facilities for fish processing and marketing. There was also a little light industry. In December 1941, the Germans burnt part of Reine in reprisal for a raid on the Lofoten Islands by British troops. Today

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is important, and despite its remote location, many thousands of people visit annually. The village is situated on a promontory just off the

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highway, which passes through the village. Reine is located immediately to the south of Sakrisoya and Hamnøya. ''

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'', the largest weekly magazine in Norway, selected Reine as the most beautiful village in Norway in the late 1970s. A photograph over Reine from the mountain Reinebringen (altitude ) has been used for the front page of several tourist brochures and books. In 1999 the painter

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set up a provisional studio in a

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and painted the view over the harbor to the mountain range. In January 2015, Reine was the site from which

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launched ''Coca-Cola life'' in Norway, referred to by the company as "our smallest launch yet". More than half the town's residents (around 200 out of 307) attended this open-air event despite being mid-winter. In 2016–2019, a stone staircase was built up to Reinebringen, which made the mountain (previously considered steep, muddy, and difficult to climb) easily accessible.Reinebringen Hiking Guide
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Gallery

File:Reine Lofoten.jpg, Reine in 2005 File:Reine-3.jpg, Reine seen from Reinebringen File:Reine night.jpg, Reine at night (midnight sun) File:Gunnar Berg Fiskebåter ved Reine.jpg, The fishing fleet at Reine, Gunnar Berg (1863–93) File:Reine Lofoten 2009.JPG, View of Reine File:Reine - Lofoten.jpg, Reine village shore with the fish drying racks Reine-20-Regenbogen-2019-gje.jpg, Reine with rainbow Reine-38-2019-gje.jpg, Fishermen's boathouse

References

External links

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