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Sankt Hans Hill

Sankt Hans Hill, Recreational park in northern Lund, Sweden

Sankt Hans Hill is a park and recreational area in northern Lund, between Norra Nöbbelöv and Norra Fäladen. Its main feature is a broad, rounded grassy hill rising to about 85 metres above sea level, with a pale unpaved path curving along the lower slope and a narrower track climbing the flank. The vegetation is planted, and the Valkärra stream flows through the area.

The area was grazing common land for Lund's residents before 1947, when the council turned it into a waste dump. The Swedish source dates the landfill to 1947–1967, not 1954. The modern hill and park took shape in the 1970s, and a decontamination project began in 2013.

The name Sankt Hans comes from a spring that once lay just east of the hills, where Lund residents celebrated Midsummer's Eve, called Sankt Hans afton in Scanian, until the 1940s. The well has vanished and attempts to find it failed. Lundakarnevalen holds social events here, and local schools and preschools use the area as an outdoor classroom.

The hill lies in northern Lund between Norra Nöbbelöv and Norra Fäladen, with a mown strip and unpaved paths along the slopes; the summit, about 85 metres above sea level, gives a view over the Lund plain toward Malmö and, in favourable conditions, Copenhagen. In winter the slopes are used for sledding. The annual Sankt Hans Extreme race offers 10 km, 5 km and a 6-hour ultra class on a 2.5 km loop.

The hill is sometimes jokingly called Monte Composto because it was built on a former waste dump. The name Sankt Hans comes from a spring that once lay just east of the present slopes, where Lund residents celebrated Midsummer Eve until the 1940s; the spring has vanished and searches for it failed.

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