Quiet fishing village but still so lively. Of all the communities and villages in Österlen, Kivik is perhaps the best known and for many reasons. Kivik's market, the apple market, Kivik Art Center, Kivik's musteri, yes, the list can be made long.
In the village's harbor area, Buhres fisk is a major magnet for visitors. The Musteriet, which produces a variety of fruit-based products, employs many people and spreads the name Kivik across the country. The range of shops, cafés, bed & breakfast establishments, hotels and restaurants, as well as dentists, hairdressers, bus companies, haulage companies, a local history museum, petrol station, cinema, bakery, retirement homes and schools is impressive.
The buildings are of a very mixed character, from old half-timbered houses down in the older parts of the village along winding narrow streets to ultra-modern villas near Moriabacken. Fritiof Nilsson the Pirate stands as a statue down the harbor, his book "Bombi Bitt and I" is a classic and many of the Pirate's tales are set in Kivik.
The market field is classified as a Natura 2000 area, mainly because of the high natural values of the sandy soils. The rare natural type of sandy steppe occurs here and occasionally the field pipit nests in the sparsely populated land. Below the steep sea wall, a road from Kivik leads past the beach to the next small fishing village, Vitemölla. Simrishamn is about 19 kilometers south and Kristianstad 55 kilometers north.
From Kivik there are good bus connections both north and south. Byalaget in Kivik: info(at)byalagetpakivik.se. Kivik is home to Österlen's oldest local history museum, started in the 1890s. The history of Kivik is told here, from the Stone Age to the present day.
For example, you will learn more about fishing and shipping from when Kivik was one of Sweden's largest shipping communities, how the poor peasant life could create a breeding ground for entrepreneurship and Sweden's Apple Kingdom and how Scandinavia's largest market has its roots in a trade network from the Bronze Age's mysterious Kivik grave and the mythical Iron Age's Maletofta...
Read much more at www.kiviksmuseum.se.
