Engelsberg - one of Sweden's World Heritage Sites Sweden's World Heritage sites includes marvelous architecture, such as the Hanseatic Town of Visby and Drottningholm Palace, wonderful nature, such as the High Coast and Laponia, and historical sites, such as the Viking Town Birka and Tanum Rock Carvings. This blog entry however is about one of the lesser known and consequently also not much visited World Heritage sites in Sweden - Engelsberg Ironworks. Mining has long been an important industry in Sweden and two of the Swedish World Heritage sites aim to preserve historical mining sites. One of those is the copper mine in Falun and the other is Engelsberg Ironworks. The Swedish district Västmanland is today somewhat of a backwater. That has not always been the case though. Once the area was more prosperous than today
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