Here in the Valle area we are not modest – the area is marketed as “Vallevägen - the world's most beautiful road”. Roughly 20 small business owners have joined forces to highlight the area's assets and resources. This involves both artists, producers, traders and B&B’s. The nature in the area is characterized by the kame landscape with its rolling hills. This type of landscape is considered unique in the world - it was formed when the inland ice retreated. There are over 60 km of hiking trails, and the area is known for all the tens of thousands cherry trees that blossom here during May.
Torprännan Nature Reserve is a well preserved and representative part of the west slopes of the mountain Billingen, with a notably deep valley below, called Torprännan. Torprännan and some other smaller valleys up in the slope were created by powerful water flows when the inland ice sheet melted.
The diabase has formed a slope that is markedly steep in places. The lower parts consist of open fields and pastures, which further up the slope give way to pastures with planted oak. The area is abundant in wild cherry trees, but in the upper parts of the reserve pine forest dominates. On the slope you will find a few old crofts, house foundations and the abandoned plots where crofts once stood.
The farmhouse on Torp’s farm was built during the 18th century and has preserved interior details in Empire style from the beginning of the 19th century. The rest of the buildings on the farm are from the early 19th century. In the times of the “indelning” conscription system, the farm was used as the residence of a cavalry captain with Royal Västgöta Regiment, which was stationed on Axevalla Moor. The farmstead with its surrounding garden is architecturally historic.