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Steps down to the rock bath at Ransvik

Ransvik

A rocky bathing cove just outside Mölle, known as the first place in Sweden where men and women swam together, with a 1921 coffee house.

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Photo: Guillaume Baviere from Uppsala, Sweden · CC BY-SA 2.0
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  1. Overview
  2. The sin of Mölle
  3. Swimming today
  4. Things to do here
  5. Eat, stay & book nearby
  6. More places nearby
  7. Reviews

Ransvik is a small rocky cove inside the Kullaberg nature reserve, a short walk along the coast from the northwest edge of Mölle. The name means "raven bay", and coal for Kullen Lighthouse was once landed here.

Ransvik Havsveranda in the old coffee house above the bay

Photo: Peterappelros · CC BY 3.0

Mixed bathing at Ransvik around 1910, photographed by Peter P. Lundh

Photo: Peter P. Lundh · Public domain

The sin of Mölle

In the early 1900s Ransvik became known as the first place in Sweden where men and women bathed together. Court photographer Peter P. Lundh sold postcards of the bathers the same day, and the scandal, "the sin of Mölle", only made the resort more famous. The stone paving that makes swimming easy was laid in the 1910s.

Swimming today

  • Get infrom the rocks, the small pebble beach or the jetty, with bathing ladders to help
  • Look under waterRansvik is popular with scuba divers
  • EatRansvik Havsveranda serves lunch and fika in the coffee house built in 1921

The water is about a meter deep at the jetty, and the rocks can be slippery.

Things to do here

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Swimming

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Rock baths with ladders, pebble coves under the cliffs, a town beach in Höganäs and a harbor sauna for year-round dips.

Diving & snorkeling

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Rock walls, small caves and unusually salty water make Kullaberg one of southern Sweden's most popular dive areas.

Hiking

Color-marked trails over Kullaberg's cliffs, beech woods and heath, from short loops to Kullaleden, about 70 km round the peninsula.

Eat, stay & book nearby

More in Mölle

Ransvik Havsveranda

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Café and restaurant in a 1921 seaside cottage at Ransvik cove inside the Kullaberg nature reserve, a 20–30-minute walk along the shore from Mölle harbor. Swedish classics with an Italian touch, coffee and cake, and wine by the sea. Open seasonally; mostly drop-in, but tables can be booked a day ahead.

More places nearby

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Gregers backar

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Kullaberg's second-highest top, 175 meters up, with a near-360° view over Skälderviken bay and a quiet memorial to four pilots killed here in 1956.

Håkull

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Kullaberg's highest point, 188 meters up, with heather, old survey pillars and a view over Skälderviken bay to the Bjäre peninsula.

Himmelstorp

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A thatched, half-timbered farm on Kullaberg's slopes, first recorded in the 1400s, where the path down to Nimis begins.

Josefinelust

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A steep-sided cove on Kullaberg's north shore, reached by old stone steps, with a pebble beach, clear water and five caves.

Kullaberg's sea caves

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More than 20 caves pierce Kullaberg's coast, from Stone Age shelters to a failed silver mine, reached by steep paths or from the water.

Kullen Lighthouse

Sweden's highest-set and Scandinavia's brightest lighthouse, at the western tip of Kullaberg, guiding ships since 1561.

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