A lakeside holiday village

The County Administrative Board of Skåne classifies the area around Bosarpasjön as a cultural environment of particular value, and for a refreshing reason: not for old ruins, but as a leisure landscape that has been used and loved since the middle of the twentieth century. Cottages cluster along the northern and southern shores, and just south of the lake lies Bosarps sommarby, a summer-village settlement with close to fifty built plots. Strolling the little lanes between the cabins, you get a real sense of how generations of families from Hässleholm and beyond have spent their summers here.↗↗

The most charming survivor of that era sits on the northern shore. The local sports club Sjövikens IF started out here in 1954 around a mini-golf course (then called bangolf), together with a café that in the 1950s and 60s doubled as a corner shop for the cottage owners. The course and café, originally built by one man, Thure Persson, are still run by the club today, so a round of putts with the lake glittering in the background is as much a piece of living heritage as a leisure activity.↗↗