states: [sweden]
category: cultural
year: 2001
location: Town of Falun, Dalarna Province
region: Europe and North America
latitude/longitude: 60.6047200000, 15.6308300000
The enormous mining excavation known as the Great Pit at Falun is the most striking feature of a landscape that illustrates the activity of copper production in this region since at least the 13th century. The 17th-century planned town of Falun with its many fine historic buildings, together with the industrial and domestic remains of a number of settlements spread over a wide area of the Dalarna region, provide a vivid picture of what was for centuries one of the world's most important mining areas.
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