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![Grytøyrelva](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/232/nv_482.jpg?itok=xhxzmzEq)
![Odda around the turn of the former century, with the new Hotel Hardanger](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/1/kvh_398-2.jpg?itok=OKXQDlUB)
Odda- The tourist town
The pioneering tourists in the 1830s-40s brought a momentum in the tourist traffic to the fjord and mountain country Norway. At the time Odda was a hidden Shangri-La at the bottom of Sørfjorden; the farm and the church on the green headland at the fjord. But when the steamship traffic opened the fjord landscape for tourism, in a few years Odda parish in Søndre Bergenhus County became the focal point for travellers in West Norway.
![Opo](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/232/odda_32.jpg?itok=X8hRVGS1)
![The stave church in Røldal](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/190/kvh_55-1.jpg?itok=s4rVLQ2e)
Røldal
The stave church in Røldal was one of the key pilgrimage churches in West Norway. The church was probably built between 1250 and 1350, and in the high Middle Ages Røldal was the most important destination for pilgrims in the country beside the Nidaros cathedral. It was the crucifix that attracted people to midnight mass on midsummer night. That was when it excreted its miraculous sweat.