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Arild's medieval chapel with the village and Skälderviken behind

Arild

A terraced fishing village at the foot of Kullaberg, with a medieval chapel, old fishermen's cottages and a long line of visiting painters.

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Arild is a small fishing village on the Skälderviken shore at the eastern end of Kullaberg. The old houses curve around the harbor below a wooded slope, and newer villas climb the terraces above.

A thatched house on Stora Vägen in Arild

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Strandhagsvägen, a quiet lane in Arild

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The chapel

Arild's white chapel, first mentioned in 1475, is Skåne's only medieval fishing-village chapel. Inside are a votive ship and an altarpiece, both from 1738, and the small churchyard around it holds only people drowned at sea.

Painters and summer guests

From the mid-1800s artists came for the light off the sea and the fishing community. The Danish painter Viggo Pedersen ran a painting school here, and Prince Eugen, Richard Bergh and Nils Kreuger all worked in Arild. Summer guests were quieter and grander than in lively Mölle.

Walk around

  • The lanesnarrow streets and fishermen's cottages, some several hundred years old
  • The shorea sea pool at Klötet and rock bathing at Tussan
  • Kullabergtrails lead up to Himmelstorp and Håkull, the ridge's highest point

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