Falköping

Falköping stands between the table mountains of Mösseberg and Ålleberg in the farming country of Falbygden. The surrounding landscape is rich in prehistoric tombs, including passage graves dating from the fourth millennium before Christ. The town was mentioned in early medieval writings and in the law of Västergötland. Its twelfth-century church of St Olaf made it a place of pilgrimage. Danish troops burned Falköping during the Northern Seven Years' War in the sixteenth century, but the town was rebuilt.