Highly: The city of the Aurora Northern in Norway

Highly it is a small village situated to the north of Norway, this city possesses a very current shield that devised in 1976 which shows the tip of an arrow in reference to the quartz arrows tips, which date from the Paleolítico, found in the city.



The city covers a geographical area of 3.815 km2 situated to the edge of the Altafjorden, extends on large wooded lands and on the plateau of Finnmarksvidda. The River Altaelva has formed one of the largest tubes of Europe, that goes since the plateau to the fjord Altafjorden.

Highly, besides it is situated next to one of the oldest and important deposits of cave painting of the entire world, Hjemmeluft that date approximately of the 4200 a. C. to the 500 a. C., which counts on more than 3.000 done drawings in rock, like ships, animal, human beings and you arm. These traces were declared world heritage in 1985 by the UNESCO.

Besides in this city the first traces of the culture were found Komsa (call thus by the Mount Komsa).

The Main activities in the city of high with the commerce, microcomputer industries, education and public utilities. The city is also very known by its industry of shales. Besides the city with two northern eccentricities in the world, one is the Hotel of Ice or call also “Igloo Hotel” and the restaurant Subway.

The Museum of High is located in the city with the same name to the north of Norway, is the summer museum but visited of the world with more than 1000 visitors for day. It shows as exposition to the public paintings of the local area and of nearby representative cultures, besides the cave paintings that are part of the world heritage, this museum opened its doors in June of 1991, winning the prize of the European Museum of the Year in 1993.

In High also it expects a without number of adventures, like you affirm the majority of tourists, such as to enjoy the northern dawn, the sun of midnight, the mountains, besides sports of snow as motorcycles of snow and the sledges hauled by dogs, and all this is complemented with the excellent climatic condition that is used to presenting this city along the year and of its stations. In High the first observatory of Auroras Northern of the world at the end of the 19th century was built, for which Highly the surname of “The City of the Aurora Northern”was won.