When Linnaeus came to Ravlunda on his journey to Skåne, he was captivated by nature and believed that there could be nothing more beautiful in the whole country. It is close to Haväng and the sea, where the Verkeån river reaches the Baltic Sea and divides the sandy beach.
Here you can look for amber and enjoy wild thyme and sand cloves. Here stands the Havängsdösen and broods its secret. Up on the steeply sloping embankment you can see "as far as you like". The firing range north of the dolmen has been in use since the mid-1950s. Many people visit the field when there are no exercises going on, and you can get strong nature experiences of marsh harriers, sheep, tree frogs and deer.
Ravlunda village is located about two and a half kilometres due west, just south of the rolling hills of Brösarp. Hasse and Tage's "The Apple War" and Astrid Lindgren's "The Brothers Lionheart" were recorded. The church has been given a somewhat unique placement at the top of the village and has been here since the 1100s. Two very well-known Swedish cultural personalities rest in the cemetery: Olle Adolphson and Fritiof Nilsson the Pirate.
Fritiof himself wrote the text of his tombstone: "Below are the ashes of a man who had the habit of putting everything off until tomorrow. However, he improved to the limit and died on January 31, 1972." People have lived in the area around Ravlunda for a very long time. There are plenty of Bronze Age graves and there is much to suggest that Ravlunda was once the meeting place of the district council. In 2009, extensive excavations began at the old Maletofta shopping centre, a stone's throw from the Verkeån river. The so-called bracteate with face masks from Ravlunda is a unique gold plate that shows the skillful art of forging in the area.
Ravlunda was given its own famous description in 1746, the dean Floraeus' local history book in true Rudbeckius spirit, Flores antiquitatis Scanicae. Floreus takes it well, but places the cradle of culture in Ravlunda. Highway 9 passes just east of the village and there are bus connections further north towards Kristianstad and south towards Simrishamn. The distance to Brösarp, which has a wide range of services, is about four kilometres.
To the south on Highway 9, Kivik is the nearest major town, which also has a lot of services to offer. The museum railway runs through Ravlunda, which is operated by the Scanian Railways, mainly in the summer, an experience from the heyday of steam trains. The train runs between Brösarp and St. Olof and attracts many passengers. South of Ravlunda is Torup's estate and Vitaby.
The Ravlunda parish village association is a very active association. For a number of years, Ravlunda has a distillery with a restaurant and the museum "Fun-on-wheels" with lots of toy and model cars, a bunch of mopeds and a collection of scooters. In addition, a couple of really fun model railways.
