Rottneros Park, Sculpture park in Sunne Municipality, Sweden.
Rottneros Park is a large sculpture park in Sunne covering more than 22 hectares with themed gardens including rose gardens, peony beds, and Japanese-style landscaping. The winding pathways and open green spaces display sculptures from various artists and offer views across the entire horticultural layout.
Svante Påhlson, then owner of Rottneros manor and its mill, began laying out the park in 1932, after the old manor house burned down on the night of Saint Lucy in 1929. He engaged the garden architects Edvard Jacobson and Sven Hermelin, and in the 1950s built a new manor house modelled on Ekeby from Selma Lagerlöf's Gösta Berlings saga. The park is now owned by the Greta and Svante Påhlson Memorial Foundation.
Rottneros is known as "Ekeby" in Selma Lagerlöf's Gösta Berlings saga, and a bronze bust of Lagerlöf by Arvid Backlund stands in the park. A recurring event is the Rottneros Parkfest, formerly Trädgårdsfestivalen, held in mid-July with lectures, exhibitions and artist performances.
The park is open for visits in summer only. The manor house itself cannot be visited, as it is the private home of Svante Påhlson's grandson. The grounds cover 22 hectares west of Lake Fryken, with a large children's playground, Nils Holgersson's adventure park, on site.
The manor house in the park is not open to visitors: it is the private home of Svante Påhlson's grandson. Påhlson built it in the 1950s to resemble Ekeby from Selma Lagerlöf's Gösta Berlings saga, and kept the intersecting north-south and east-west axes centred on it.
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