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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.
![Fjøsanger](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/232/berg_49.jpg?itok=x0vBKTNz)
Fjøsanger
Fjøsanger is known among ice age researchers from around the world. Under an excavation in 1975-77, geologists from the University of Bergen found layers from the last interglacial, ca. 115 000 to 130 000 years old.
![The Boat Hall at the Horda Museum houses 26 clinker-built, open wooden boats](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/190/kvh_266_hordamuseet_2_150_0.jpg?itok=hUA-sFmd)
![From Rosesmuggrenden, Bergen](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/232/kvh_261_z.jpg?itok=hlM8smTP)
![Rope making](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/1/kvh-260-verftet.jpg?itok=ViAYY7jN)
Sandviken
Close to the tunnel opening at Amalie Skrams vei in Ssandviken, there is a cultural monument of European dimensions; a rope making works that produced rope and fishing tackle for West and North Norway.
![“The Wall” from 1561](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/232/kvh_259-2s.jpg?itok=ypVjH9al)
Strandsiden
During the 1300s Strandsiden changed from a rural area with a monastery to a pulsating trading centre with boathouses, storehouses and embankment.
![Det Gamle Rådhus (the old town hall), Bergen](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/232/kvh_258x.jpg?itok=BmtzgycU)
Vågsbunnen
Vågsbotn was the name of the innermost part of the eastern part of town from Auta-almenning (today’s Vetrlidsalmenning), skirting the bottom of Vågen to Allehelgenskirken (All Saints’ Church) (at the present Allehelgensgate). In early medieval times Vågen reached almost all the way to Olavskirken (the Cathedral). It was a relatively wide bay inside the premonitory where Korskirken was built. The area was therefore much shorter than what is known as Vågsbunnen today.
![Årstad in the 1890s](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/232/kvh_253-2.jpg?itok=5wIhsIRt)
Årstad
Alrekstad (later Årstad) is the birthplace of Bergen. The estate was an estate for Harald Hårfagre and several of his descendants: Eirik Blodøks, Håkon den gode og Olav Tryggvason. These first kings moved with their courts and guardsmen from estate to estate. From these estates the king ruled the country.
![Litlematre](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/232/mas_10.jpg?itok=wpTaAy0K)
![Storsetehilleren/Matrehola](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/1/kvh_319-3.jpg?itok=VSiOpI2L)
Matrehola
On a large gravel terrace in Matredalen (the Matre valley), a couple of kilometres from the coastal settlement Matre, lies Storseterhilleren, at the end of a large stone block that came rushing down from the mountain. The Matre river runs just over 100 metres to the east of the cave.