Dalby is the larger of the two villages described, located 30 minutes from Malmö, Sweden's third largest city. It has a Protestant church built in the 1100s and cliffs known as Dalby Stebrott that are popular for swimming. Agriculture is important in the region, with crops like sugar, potatoes, and rapeseed grown. There are three public schools in Dalby that educate students from ages 6 to 16. The smaller village of Torna Hällestad has beautiful nature, including a valley with a large old tree and pond, and football is a popular sport there.
2. Dalby
• Dalby is the biggest village of the two.
• Dalby is a suburb 30 minutes from Malmö, Sweden’s
third biggest city.
3. Nature
• Dalby is placed in Scania, down in the south of
Sweden. In generally there are many trees in
Sweden, but in south Sweden there are more fields
than forests .
4. People
• In Scania the people have always been more
farmers than woodworkers.
• In Dalby we grow sugar, potatoes and rapeseed.
5. Skrylle
• We have a forest close to Dalby called
Skrylleskogen, where you´re not allowed to destroy
or break anything. It´s called nature servicing.
6. Dalby Stonechurch
• Dalby has the oldest stone church in the northen
countries. It was built in the 1100, but has been
rebuilt a couple of times.
7. The church
• Dalby’s church is a protestant church. Both women
and men can be priests.
• We have gay-marriages, even though far from
everyone gets married here.
• It´s common in Sweden to have children without
being married.
8. Dalby stenbrott
In Dalby you can swim in two places:
• Dalby Stebrott. They consist of cliffs and water in the
middle.
• It´s a pretty famous place in the Lund-area. A lot of
people, both Malmö and Lund, come to swim
there.
9. The Dalby bath
• We also have a public bath, called Dalby Badet.
Here you pay to come inside.
• There are three pools. One big pool, one for kids
from age 4-8 and one for the smallest ones.
• When we swim with
school we also go to
Dalby badet.
10. Schools
In Dalby there are three public schools. They´re called
Nyvång, Haga and Skrylle.
• Nyvång and Haga are public schools. The teachers
decide what the students are supposed to do.
• Nyvång: the biggest of the three schools. It’s a
school with nearly a thousands pupils from age 6-16.
11. Haga and Skrylle
Haga: the second largest school. Pupils with students
from age 6-12. Similar to Nyvång.
Skrylle: the students decide more themselves what to
do, which is both positive and negative.
It has pupils from age 6-12 as well.
12. Torna Hällestad
• Torna Hällestad is a small village, even smaller than
Dalby.
• There is a little market, which sells everything from
newly baked bread to fruits and candy.
13. Nature
• The nature in Torna Hällestad is also beautiful,
maybe even more beautiful than Dalby.
• There is this valley called Björkensdal, which is this
gorgeous place with a pond and a very big and
old tree.
14. Football
• They got a football team called THIF, they have a
club-house with a gigantic football on the roof.
• Football is a big thing in Torna Hällestad. (There are
also many people who have a big interest in
horses.)