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. O ...

Nordland Nordland (; , , , ) is one of the three northernmost Counties of Norway, counties in Norway in the Northern Norway region, bordering Troms in the north, Trøndelag in the south, Norrbotten County in Sweden to the east, Västerbotten County to t ...

county,

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. The

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is located on the island of

Moskenesøya Moskenesøya () 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 Moskstraumen, one of th ...

in the

Lofoten Lofoten ( , ; ; ) is an archipelago and a Districts of Norway, traditional district in the county of Nordland, Norway. Lofoten has distinctive scenery with dramatic mountains and peaks, open sea and sheltered bays, beaches, and untouched lands. T ...

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, above the

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, about southwest of the city of Tromsø. Reine Church is located in the village. The village has a population (2023) of 297 and a

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of . The '' Lofotposten'' newspaper is published in

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and it covers news all over

, including

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

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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. '' Allers'', 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 Ingo Kühl set up a temporary studio in a rorbu 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.

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:Ingo Kühl "Moskstraumen I" Reine, Lofoten.jpg, ''Moskstraumen I'', Ingo Kühl (* 1953) 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 Reine-Aerial-2023.jpg, Reine and surroundings seen from the south

References

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