Ramberg' is the administrative centre of Flakstad

Flakstad

Flakstad is a municipality in Nordland county, Norway. It is part of the Lofoten traditional region. The administrative centre of the municipality is the village of Ramberg...

 municipality, in the Lofoten

Lofoten

Lofoten is an archipelago and a traditional district in the county of Nordland, Norway. Though lying within the Arctic Circle, the archipelago experiences one of the world's largest elevated temperature anomalies relative to its high latitude.-Etymology:...

 islands, Nordland

Nordland

is a county in Norway in the North Norway region, bordering Troms in the north, Nord-Trøndelag in the south, Norrbottens län in Sweden to the east, Västerbottens län to the southeast, and the Atlantic Ocean to the west. The county was formerly known as Nordlandene amt. The county administration is...

, Norway. It is located on the island Flakstadøya

Flakstadøya

Flakstadøya is an island in Lofoten in Nordland county, Norway. It is located in Flakstad municipality.The island is connected to Moskenesøya in the west by Kåkern Bridge, and to Vestvågøya through the undersea tunnel Nappstraumtunnelen....

 and has approximately 350 inhabitants,.

There is a library, a small shopping centre, a post-office, a petrol station, a cinema, a youth club, a pub and a bank, the primary school, including 7th-10th class and the police station for Flakstad and Moskenes. Ramberg is also famous for the beach with white sand.

There is a troll at Ramberg: Rambergmannen, or Per Grå, it can be seen when driving in the direction of Vestvågøy. The tale tells that the reason that he looks so sad is that he never got married. He was old and rich, but lonely, and one day he came to Ramberg. There he met a beautiful girl and fell in love with her. He proposed to her, but she did not accept, and the poor troll got so sad that he sat down by the mountain and stayed there until the sun came up and turned him into stone. He still stands here today. and looks at all the pretty girls at Ramberg. We say that the rocks which are falling down are his tears.

The local church: it is known there has always been a church in Flakstad since 1430 and the current one is the second one at this place. The timber used for the church comes from Russia - the people of Flakstad exchanged fish for timber during the Pomor trade

Pomor trade

Pomor trade , is the trade carried out between the Pomors of Northwest Russia and the people along the coast of Northern Norway, as far south as Bodø...

. This is why the steeple has a Russian-orthodox look.