Below Gårdlösaåsen, the small village of Gårdlösa emerged in the Middle Ages, a unique farming village consisting of a number of large farmhouses often with lavish exterior building details such as cornices and recessed stone slabs. These farms date mainly from the mid-19th century.
But people have lived on Gårdlösaåsen for much longer. The ridge is an offshoot of Listarumsåsen and has been carefully excavated several times. The finds are abundant. There are lots of graves, a number of shipwrecks and judges' rings. Gårdlösa has gained worldwide interest since the discovery of the grave with the remains of the so-called Silver Girl. The grave is dated to the 200s and in it was found a silver jewelry with unique runic inscriptions.
Three names that have put Gårdlösa on the map are Frans Lindberg, the goose painter, whose meticulous depictions of folk life in watercolor were collected in 2009 in a fine memorial book by villagers Kristina Eriksson and Kajsa Josephson, the aviator Charles Lindbergh whose grandfather Ola Månsson lived in Gårdlösa, and Edward Persson, who partially filmed the film Söder om landsvägen in the village in 1936.
The lively village team, which also includes the neighboring village of Smedstorp, is active all year round with exciting activities, including art walks in the artist-dense villages. Smedstorp is within one kilometer and has a railway station that offers hourly services to Simrishamn in the east and Tomelilla-Ystad-Malmö in the west. In Smedstorp there are services in the form of shops, school, childcare, church etc.
