The Pine Forest, the Sash Saw and the Scots Trade

Cultural Heritage and Cultural Landscapes

The development which culminated in the great west Norwegian clustered communities in the 18th and 19th centuries, such as we see at Havrå on Osterøy Island, actually first came into being in Viking times, with an incipient division of the farms into smaller units.

The Landscape

The Tourists, the Landscape and the Fantasy Hotels

Tourist travel in western Norway experienced its great breakthrough with the regular scheduled steamship traffic.

From Dense Forest to Open Heathlands

The outer frame - the coast, the fjord and the mountains - are an inheritance from the country's geological history. But what, more than anything else, gives the scene colour and excitement is the plant life.

A True Gold Mine