Torna Hällestad
Encyclopedia
Torna Hällestad is a locality
situated in Lund Municipality
, Skåne County
, Sweden
with 572 inhabitants in 2005.
The town church, dating from the 12th century, features mural paintings from the 15th century. Three runestones, dating from the 10th century, were walled in to the structure in the 19th century.
Urban areas in Sweden
Urban area is a common English translation of the Swedish term tätort. The official term in English, used by Statistics Sweden, is, however, locality. There are 1,940 localities in Sweden . They could be compared with census-designated places in the United States.A tätort in Sweden has a minimum of...
situated in Lund Municipality
Lund Municipality
Lund Municipality is a municipality in Skåne County, southern Sweden. Its seat is located in the city of Lund.As most municipalities in Sweden, the territory of Lund Municipality consists of a lot of former local government units, united in a series of amalgamations. The number of original...
, Skåne County
Skåne County
Skåne County is the southernmost administrative county or län, of Sweden, basically corresponding to the historical province Scania. It borders the counties of Halland, Kronoberg and Blekinge. The seat of residence for the Skåne Governor is the town of Malmö...
, Sweden
Sweden
Sweden , officially the Kingdom of Sweden , is a Nordic country on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe. Sweden borders with Norway and Finland and is connected to Denmark by a bridge-tunnel across the Öresund....
with 572 inhabitants in 2005.
The town church, dating from the 12th century, features mural paintings from the 15th century. Three runestones, dating from the 10th century, were walled in to the structure in the 19th century.