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![Bryggen](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/190/bryggen.jpg?itok=RnrRUCTs)
Bryggen
In the 1300s Bergen was a trading centre of European dimension. The town is thought to have had around 7000 inhabitants and was the largest and most important in the country. In a European context it was an average size town. At this time the most tightly built town area was still mostly east of Vågen from Holmen in the north to Vågsbotn in the south. Already in medieval times, latest in the 1340s, this area was called Bryggen.
![Domkirken](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/190/kvh_256_domkirken_150.jpg?itok=kfZkGtiZ)
![Fantoft stave church](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/190/kvh_267_fantoft_150.jpg?itok=hZdUT-Rm)
![At lake Gaupåsvatnet.](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/190/nvh_334_gaupas_koronitt_150.jpg?itok=Wq7ffNPu)
![Klokkarvatnet](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/190/klokkarvatnet.jpg?itok=7CkW0qZ8)
![Korskirken](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/190/korskirken.jpg?itok=LK8XAlZN)
![The church at Kyrkjebyrkjeland was pulled down in 1878.](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/232/kvh-267-1x.jpg?itok=fL3_DjIv)
![The interior of Mariakirken, Bergen](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/232/kvh_256.1.jpg?itok=dmJ7QmNt)
Mariakirken
Apart from the king’s estate at Holmen, Håkonshallen and the lower floors of the Rosenkrantz tower, the three parish churches in the centre of Bergen are what have been preserved from medieval Bergen: Mariakirken, Korskirken and Olavskirken (the cathedral). The Romanesque base of the tower from Nonneseter monastery church on the spit between the two Lundegård lakes can still be seen in the landscape, while the other medieval buildings now lie in ruins: the town’s oldest town hall and wine cellar at Nikolaikirkealmenning, Lavranskirken and Maria Gildeskåle between Mariakirken and Bryggens Museum and the Katarina hospital on the north side of Dreggsalmenningen.
![](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/232/berg_12_0.jpg?itok=hv7XxFE6)
![Nordåsvatnet (Helge Sunde)](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/232/berg_50.jpg?itok=Kd0dN7XT)
Nordåsvatnet
The Post-war Era came to Fana with its population growth and modern sanitary equipment. This had nearly catastrophic consequences for Nordåsvatnet as a recreational area. After the runoff water got re-directed to deeper water, and later also to the fjord outside, Lake Nordås won back both its swimming guests and its sports fishermen.