Rena is a small town in eastern Norway. It is the administrative centre of Åmot

Åmot

Åmot is a municipality in Hedmark county, Norway. It is part of the traditional region of Østerdalen. The administrative centre of the municipality is the village of Rena...

 municipality in the Norwegian

Norway

Norway , officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a Nordic unitary constitutional monarchy whose territory comprises the western portion of the Scandinavian Peninsula, Jan Mayen, and the Arctic archipelago of Svalbard and Bouvet Island. Norway has a total area of and a population of about 4.9 million...

 county

Counties of Norway

Norway is divided into 19 administrative regions, called counties . The counties form the primary first-level subdivisions of Norway and are further divided into 430 municipalities...

 of Hedmark

Hedmark

is a county in Norway, bordering Sør-Trøndelag, Oppland and Akershus. The county administration is in Hamar.Hedmark makes up the northeastern part of Østlandet, the southeastern part of the country. It includes a long part of the borderline with Sweden, Dalarna County and Värmland County. The...

. Rena is a rather rural but picturesque town, and is situated at the meeting point of Glomma

Glomma

The Glomma or Glåma is the longest and largest river in Norway. The long river has a drainage basin that covers a full 13% of Norway's area, all in the southern part of Norway.-Geography:...

 (Norway's longest river) and Rena rivers (a tributary to Glomma). The latter is one of the best for fishing in Norway.

Its population was 2,009 in 2005. There is a train station of the Røros Line in Rena.

A campus (modern school building and student dormitories) of Hedmark University College

Hedmark University College

Hedmark University College is a høgskole, a Norwegian state institution of higher education, in the county of Hedmark, Norway. The college's four campuses are located in Hamar, Elverum, Åmot and Stor-Elvdal...

 is located there. There are two Chinese restaurants, a public cinema, several hotels and an abandoned cardboard factory (Rena kartonfabrikk) that was torn down in 2007.

The valley of Østerdalen

Østerdalen

Østerdalen is a valley and traditional district in Hedmark County, in Eastern Norway. It consisting of the municipalities Rendalen, Alvdal, Folldal,Tynset, Tolga and Os in the north, Elverum, Stor-Elvdal, Engerdal, Trysil and Åmot in the south.-Geography:...

, where it lies, is a mountainous and forested area used by the military for special forces training; the Norwegian army

Norwegian Army

Norway achieved full independence in 1905, and in the first century of its short life has contributed to two major conflicts, the Cold War and the War on Terror. The Norwegian Army currently operates in the north of Norway and in Afghanistan as well as in Eastern Europe. The Army is the oldest of...

's Rena military camp is located nearby. The surrounding area is abundant in lakes, forests and rivers.

Rena is the starting point of the Birkebeiner

Birkebeiner

The Birkebein Party or Birkebeinar was the name for a rebellious party in Norway, formed in 1174 around the pretender to the Norwegian throne, Eystein Meyla...

 Mountain bike race.

Also, Rena was the host of Anders Behring Breivik

Anders Behring Breivik

Anders Behring Breivik is a Norwegian terrorist, paranoid schizophrenic and the confessed perpetrator of the Norway attacks on 22 July 2011: the bombing of government buildings in Oslo that resulted in eight deaths, and the mass shooting at a camp of the Workers' Youth League of the Labour Party...

 farm where police believe he planned the 2011 Norway attacks

2011 Norway attacks

The 2011 Norway attacks were two sequential terrorist attacks against the government, the civilian population and a summer camp in Norway on 22 July 2011....

that killed 8 people in a blast in Norway government center in Oslo and 68 people in a shooting in a summer camp in Utoya.