One of Sweden's richest bird lakes. Commonly known for the amount of cranes that stop at the lake before flying on towards and from their breeding grounds. On pillars in the lake you find the visitor center Hornborgasjön, an information center including an exhibition about the lake's history and bird life. Hornborgasjön is an over 4000 hectare large nature reserve. The reserve includes mainly the lake and its shoreline, but also some of the old farmland east of the lake.
Experience Museum
Åsle Tå is Sweden's largest preserved croft settlement. Walk along the picturesque village street "Tågatan" that is lined with a dozen crofts and other old buildings, still standing in their original locations.
"Tå" was originally the name of the common land in the traditional Swedish village where the cattle were watered and kept. In time the "landless", those who did not own farms, built their homes on this common land. The number of "Tå people" (tåarna) grew all over Sweden, but with the industrialization, urbanization and emigration in the late 1800s these poor people's villages were accordingly depopulated in a few decades. In most places the cottages were demolished. But not in Åsle, where a historical society that was founded in 1923 decided to keep Åsle Tå for future generations.
Here you can learn more about the 18th-19th centuries and the poverty in Swedish villages. See the authentic interiors and share inhabitants’ touching life stories. The experience of Åsle Tå is reinforced by several cottages which now are populated by life-sized dolls.
The old forge and the mill have been rebuilt and at the farthest end of the street there is now a storehouse, and a traditional barn has been brought here.
The area is also an agricultural museum and an information centre that tells more about the district's rich history. There is a café adjacent to the experience museum.