Ranua Travel Guide — Things to Do, Food & Hotels
municipality in the region of Lapland in Finland
About Ranua
Over half of the Ranua area consist of mires and bogs shattered around, the rest being temperate lowland forest. The landscape is fairly flat and the highest peak reaches just 277 meters above sea level. Waters from the over 30 km long lake Simojärvi flow into Baltic Sea through river Simojoki, which is notable as it is one of those very few rivers still having their original Baltic Sea salmon population breeding. Ranua had been inhabited by semi-nomadic forest Sámi until the 1600s when the first Finnish settlers arrived. There has been some kind of settlements by the lake Simojärvi for ages, but until the early 1900s the area has been very sparsely populated, and even nowadays virtually all the people reside by the river banks and lakesides. Many islands in Simojärvi appears to have been
Top Attractions in Ranua
Explore the best things to see and do in Ranua:
- ★Cloudberry picking
- ★Japan House
- ★Ranua church
- ★Ranua vicarage and village museum
- ★Ranua Zoo
- ★Saukkojärvi school and local history museum
- ★Simojärvi-Soppana
- ★Ylimaa battle monument
Where to Eat in Ranua
Must-try local food and restaurants:
- 🍴Restaurant Wild Arctic
- 🍴Scanburger Keskusgrilli
Where to Stay in Ranua
- 🏨Arctic Guesthouse and Igloos
- 🏨Hotel Ilveslinna
Ranua Travel Guide Sections
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