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![Prospect of Alvøen, Bergen](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/232/kvh_262-x.jpg?itok=LxWnEEWq)
Alvøen
Alvøen is one of the oldest industrial places in Norway. As early as the 1620s a gunpowder mill was built here. The place itself was well situated for industrial activity, lying only 100 m from the waterfall, which provided power for the mill, and a good harbour wherefrom the products were shipped. The success of the gun-powder mill varied in the 1600s and 1700s, but what made Alvøen best known was its paper production.
![Troldhaugen, Bergen](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/232/kvh_263-2xx.jpg?itok=6ohWsEhp)
![Skåråsmyri marsh and disappearing signs of the peat cutting that once was, though an old road still shows the way through the landscape](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/190/kvh_299_fra_skarasmyri_150.jpg?itok=FS_lVXZV)
![Fartein Valen’s house, Valevåg.](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/232/kvh_174_y.jpg?itok=RtlxskCg)
In Memory of Fartein Valen
“Fartein Valen is the key figure within newer Norwegian music. Not by way of being more popular than other younger composers, but because he aims at things higher, which he is fully confident of being able to reach since he commands all techniques. But there is a price to pay for reaching above the ordinary, and there is a price to pay for demanding more than the ordinary from the listeners. This is something Valen has experienced”.
![Tyssedal power station](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/1/kvh_397-1_obs.jpg?itok=jm_PI6LQ)
Tyssedal
Today Tyssedal appears like a classical industrial community, a picture of modern Norway from the turn of the former century until today. A/S Tyssefaldene was established in 1906, and on 1 May 1908 Tyssedal power station was put into operation. The work on the first stage of the facility was completed in a short time, with a work force of 500 men. They built water tunnels, regulation reservoirs, power station, penstocks, harbour, cableways, office buildings, houses and 6 km of power lines in the wild mountains above Odda to provide the new melting plant with power.
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![The chest from Sekse, painted by Gunnar Årekol in 1813.](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/232/kvh_388-3.jpg?itok=12rL18qi)
![Rosemåling](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/304/frette.jpg?itok=NK9-3KWy)
![From Måge](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/1/kvh_394-1.jpg?itok=hO2-z3lh)
Måge
Steatite is a type of stone that is abundant in Hardanger. There are large steatite deposits in the mountain below Folgefonna. These deposits are visible both in Krossdalen in Jondal, at Kveitno in Odda and at Måge in Ullensvang. There are many traces of steatite quarrying in Hardanger, and one of the largest fields is in the hillside above Måge.
![Kyrkjegard, Leirvåg](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/304/leirvag.png?itok=NlLeQEfI)