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Reine [3] is the administrative centre of Moskenes Municipality in Nordland county, Norway.The fishing village is located on the island of Moskenesøya in the Lofoten archipelago, above the Arctic Circle, about 300 kilometres (190 mi) southwest of the city of Tromsø.
The Hameau de la Reine (French pronunciation: [amo də la ʁɛn], The Queen's Hamlet) is a rustic retreat in the park of the Château de Versailles built for Marie Antoinette in 1783 near the Petit Trianon in Yvelines, France. It served as a private meeting place for the queen and her closest friends and as a place of leisure.
This spring waters gardens planted with fig and pomegranate trees. The village of Reineh stretches over the southern slopes of the hill it abuts. It contains approximately 800 residents, half of them Muslims and the other half schismatic Greeks, with some Protestants as well. The reason for the latter is that an English mission has been active ...
The administrative centre of the municipality is the village of Reine. Other villages include Sørvågen, Hamnøya, and Å. The 119-square-kilometre (46 sq mi) municipality is the 322nd largest by area out of the 357 municipalities in Norway. Moskenes is the 338th most populous municipality in Norway with a population of 954.
It existed in the early Viking Age, maybe earlier, and was located on the southern coast on eastern Lofoten, near today's village Kabelvåg in Vågan Municipality. The Lofotr Viking Museum with the reconstructed 83-metre-long (272 ft) longhouse (the largest known) is located near Borg on Vestvågøya , which has many archeological finds from ...
Hamnøya [2] is a small fishing village in Moskenes Municipality in Nordland county, Norway.It is located on a small peninsula on the eastern side of the island of Moskenesøya, about 1.5 kilometres (0.93 mi) northeast of the village of Reine, along the Vestfjorden.
Reine Church (Norwegian: Reine kirke) is a parish church of the Church of Norway in Moskenes Municipality in Nordland county, Norway.It is located in the village of Reine.It is one of the two churches in the Moskenes parish which is part of the Lofoten prosti in the Diocese of Sør-Hålogaland.
The following year the Mission of Saint-Philippe-de-La Reine was founded. In 1917, the place was incorporated as the United Township Municipality of La Reine-et-Desmeloizes-Partie-Ouest. In 1922, the village itself separated from the united township and formed the Village Municipality of La Reine. [1]