When Linnaeus came to Ravlunda on his journey through Skåne, he was enchanted by nature and felt that there could be nothing more beautiful in the whole country. It is close to Haväng and the sea, where the Verke River reaches the Baltic Sea and divides the sandy beach.
Here you can search for amber and enjoy thyme and sand cloves. This is where Havängsdösen is brooding over its secret. Up on the steeply sloping embankment you can see "as far as the eye can see". The shooting range north of the doze has been in use since the mid-50s. 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 church village is located about two and a half kilometres due west, just south of the rolling Brösarp hills, where Hasse and Tage's "The Apple War" and Astrid Lindgren's "The Brothers Lionheart" were filmed. The church has a somewhat unique location at the top of the village and has been here since the 12th century. Two very well-known Swedish cultural personalities are buried in the churchyard: Olle Adolphson and Fritiof Nilsson Piraten.
Fritiof himself wrote the text for his tombstone: "Here below are the ashes of a man who had the habit of putting everything off until tomorrow. However, he improved to his utmost and really died on 31 January 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 county council. In 2009, extensive excavations began at the old trading centre of Maletofta, a stone's throw from the Verkeån river. The so-called bracteate with face masks from Ravlunda is a unique gold plate that shows skilful blacksmithing in the area.
Ravlunda received its own famous description in 1746, the dean Floraeus' hometown book in the true Rudbeckius spirit, Flores antiquitatis Scanicae. Floreus is not wrong, but he places the cradle of culture in Ravlunda. National road 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.
Southwards on motorway 9 is Kivik the nearest larger town, which also has a lot to offer in terms of services. The museum railway runs through Ravlunda and, mainly in summer, is operated by Skånska Järnvägar, an experience from the heyday of steam trains. The train runs between Brösarp and St Olof and attracts many travellers. South of Ravlunda is the Torup estate and Vitaby.
The Ravlunda parish village association is a very active organisation. For a number of years Ravlunda has had a distillery with a restaurant and the museum "Kul-på-hjul" with lots of toy and model cars, a bunch of mops and a collection of scooters. Plus a couple of really fun model railways.
