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...The signature red colour of cottages and timber buildings seen all over the Swedish countryside, but most frequently in the country´s central regions, actually originates from the more than 1000-year-old Stora Kopparberg copper mine in Dalarna´s regional capital Falun – a Unesco World Heritage Site – where iron pigments are used to produce the ”Falu red” calcamine paint, the colour which many foreign visitors name among their most powerful impressions of Sweden...