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![“The triangle” at the Fish Market in Bergen about 1865](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/artikkel/admin/kvh_71-1.jpg?itok=L3Biib-b)
The City and the Stril country
The relationship between Bergen and its neighbouring districts, normally known as “Strilelandet”, has, over the centuries, given rise to greater conflicts than the contacts between any other Norwegian city and its nearest hinterland.
![The well constructed two-storeyed house at Skjørsand in Fusa around the end of the 19th century](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/artikkel/williamh/kvh_115-1.jpg?itok=9oZt9U1b)
Vernacular Architecture and the Landscape
![Glesvær](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/artikkel/admin/kvh_glesvaer.jpg?itok=KrbUacrX)
![Hieronimus Scholaeus’ prospect of Bergen](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/artikkel/admin/kvh_66-1_0.jpg?itok=VaMPfemx)
Bergen – The Urban Community
Bergen - our first royal residence city – has for centuries been Norway’s, and for long periods, Scandinavia’s biggest city. The historical monuments round the Vågen bay tell us that the city has been of national, historical significance.
![The industrial settlement of Ytre Arna in the 1880s](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/artikkel/admin/kvh_110-1.jpg?itok=IUKv2baB)
The Urban Settlements
The development of urban settlements after 1850 is a historic process of great significance for the cultural landscape. Besides the great land reforms and the new ways of working in agriculture, the changes in the settlement pattern and the building of a road network with roads, bridges and cuttings were the single factors which have most significantly contributed to the metamorphosis of the county’s physical visage in the last 150 years.
![Rosendal Barony, Kvinnherad](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/232/kvh_196-1s.jpg?itok=ox8jA2u-)
Rosendal Barony
The Barony of Rosendal lies in the grounds of the old noble estate of Hatteberg, on the north side of the Hatteberg river, around one kilometre up from the sea. The three noble estates Seim, Mel and Hatteberg constituted the core of the large estate taken over by Ludvig Rosenkrantz in 1662, after he was married to Karen Mowat in 1658.
![The captain's farm at Fet in Uskedalen](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/232/kvh_195-1.jpg?itok=7AcmSR3a)
![Stained glass painting in “Målabuo”.](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/232/kvh_199.2x.jpg?itok=QjuFUhzb)
![Maters Fjord with Holmedalsberget in the background.](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/232/kvi_37.jpg?itok=mDDqfdul)
Holmedalsberget
If you want to be on your own for a long day in a magnificent deciduous forest in demanding terrain, then HOLMESDALSBERGET is the right place. This is a big forested area by Matres Fjord in the southwestly part of Kinnherad. Here, we find one of the largest deciduous forests in Hordaland. The forest stretches over several kilometres.
![Møkjedalen (Bjørn Moe)](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/232/kvi_22.jpg?itok=iPMTpA3a)