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Å i Lofoten or short Å is a place with about one hundred inhabitants on the Lofoten Islands in Norway, on the east side of the island Moskenesøy. The name, etymologically related to Ache and Latin aqua, means as much as Bach.

Accessible Å over the sea with a ferry from Moskenes to Bodø and overland via the opened in 1992 Kong Olafvs veg on Sørvågen.

The largest part of the town and also the freshwater part of the Johan B. Larsen family and their descendants.

The city lives mainly from tourism during the summer months. The two resident museums represent an important contribution to the representation of culture in Lofoten dar. Å is predominantly a fishing village museum and consists of 23 buildings that are 150 years old and are still in its old place. These include some rorbus, boat houses, a blacksmith shop and a bakery and a Trankocherei.

Add Å is now the Norwegian Fisheries Museum and the stockfish museum in which the thousand-year history of the commodity is explained stockfish. Not only the proper drying of the fish stock is explained, and the 18 grades and quality standards of the fish are explained. Even today, in the summer in the city, drying racks for stockfish - the Tørrfiskgestelle - find whose main customer is the B. Larsen A / S from Sørvågen.

Especially for tourists walking on the west side of the island to place Stokkvika is interesting. The campsite offers views of the Moskenstraumen and Værøy. The place is located - as part of the fishing village museum - a youth hostel ( Vandrerhjem ).

Add Å the end of the European route is 10