Nora

Nora is a town in Västmanland.

Understand

Göthlinska gården, a preserved bourgeoise dwelling house at the main square

The town centre still has a large number of wooden houses from the 18th and 19th century. In the nearby lake, there is a large island with an adventure park for children. Nora is renowned for its ice cream parlor NoraGlass, which sells freshly made ice cream.

Nora is one of three towns in Sweden considered to have especially well preserved wooden buildings town centres (the other towns being Eksjö and Hjo).

Get in

Regular bus traffic from Örebro, 25 km to the south from Nora.

Get around

See

Steam engine of Nora Bergslags Veteran-Jernväg

• Nora Bergslags Veteran-Jernväg. a museum railway based at the Nora railway station at the lakeside. The museum railway has a network of 25 kilometer of normal gauge track. This is one of the most genuine old railway environments in Sweden. The station building at Järle is the oldest one in the country. The strech between Nora and Ervalla was the first normal gauge railway in Sweden, opened for traffic March 5, 1856. Several old steam powered locomotives are maintained by volunteers. In summer, a small diesel train takes tourists to Pershyttan, a few kilometers away (see below). 
• Götlinska gården. a Swedish Heritage building and a museum, situated at the main square. 
• Pershyttan. an earlier ironworks, which can be reached by the museum railway train. 

Do

Buy

Leon. Sandbergs Bosättningsaffär

• Leon. Sandbergs Bosättningsaffär. a store for household goods, which has been run by members of the Sandberg family since 1859 in its premises at the main square 

Eat

Drink

Sleep

Connect

Go next

Pershyttan

• In nearby Pershyttan (4 km) the old iron works are located. The guided tour takes you inside the buildings to see how pig iron was made from iron ore. Nearby, an old mine has been reopened to visitors, though only with a guide. The mine isn't very deep underground and you can always still see daylight.
• Gyttorp, a small former industrial village, with an interesting residential architecture, drafted in the 1940s by the British-Swedish architect Raöph Erskine (1914-2005).
• Kopparberg (50 km to the north) is a village with some beautiful old buildings to visit. The tourist office is located in one of these, the Tingshus (Courthouse) from 1642. Next door is an old archive building from the mining company Berslagsarkivet, 1876-1877), and a very old grain seed warehouse from the 17th century. Around the corner, there is a small country life museum where the local pensioners give you a personal tour of the premises: a photographer's studio, a shoemaker, a postal office and a goldsmiths workshop. In a shed outside a small reconstruction has been made of a mine. The town also has a beautiful old church (1635) with separate bell tower and stables.
• Grythyttan with its famous restaurant academy.