Båstad Municipality
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| Sweden with the province Skåne (Scania) highlighted Båstad municipality and seat in Scania See also:Municipalities of Sweden | Coat of arms | |
| Seat | Båstad | |
| County | Skåne County | |
| Province | Scania and Hallandia | |
| Area Rank | 218 km² 242th of 290 | |
| Population Rank | 14,022 (2005) 287th of 290 | |
| Density | 64/km² | |
Båstad Municipality is a municipality in southern Sweden, where the town Båstad is seat with a population of 4,700.
Båstad has most tennis courts in the country, and has fostered many internationally successful tennis players, such as Magnus Larsson. Every summer Swedish Open Båstad in tennis is held here as part of the ATP league. It attracts some 20,000 visitors and puts the town in a festive mood for a few weeks.
Geography
Extending through the northern parts of the municipality, and marking the border to the province Hallandia, is the ridge of Hallandsåsen. This is the highest point in the otherwise flat terrained Scania, with a high of 226 meters. The ridge reached in the public eye in 1997, when a tunnel being dug through the ridge caused fishes in the streams to die and cows grazing on the ridge to become paralyzed. The reason was a substance containing the poisenous substance acrylamide used by the digging company to counteract a surprising high level of groundwater.
See also
External links
- Båstad (http://www.bastad.se/) - Official site (Swedish)
- Båstad Tourism (http://www.bastad.com/eng/index.html)
- Swedish Open Båstad (http://www.swedishopen.org/) - Tennis Tournamentsv:Båstads kommun
