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![The boathouses at Svåsand.](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/1/kvh_383-2.jpg?itok=KK04JZW2)
Svåsand
Down by the fjord at Svåsand, close to the main highway, there is a long row of boathouses, one of the well-preserved, older boathouse locations along the Hardanger fjord. It is the farms at Svåsand that have their boathouses here, four main farms with origins far back in time.
![The long house at Golta, Sund](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/1/kvh_276-1.jpg?itok=qlke6iyO)
Golta- Long house
In the years between the wars a major registration of houses and house costumes, house construction methods, fireplaces and forms of housing clusters was started in West Norway – an ambitious mapping of everything that came under the name “Registration of Culture and Geography in West Norway”. One of the places of which material was gathered in 1938 was an old multi-room house at Golta; new and interesting material for the researchers from the Historical Museum, but well known within the local building tradition through several generations.
![Sash-saw](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/1/kvh-375-stekka.jpg?itok=RgEApthy)
Berge
Down by the fjord on the farm Berge in Tørvikbygd, is Stekkavika – a sheltered eastward facing harbour, protected against the fjord by headlands and rocks, even manifest in the name. Here is also a comprehensive milieu of coastal industry, with boathouses and sea-sheds that belong to the farms Berge, Heradstveit and Halleråker. Belonging to the farm Berge there is also a mill-house, circular saw, workshop for sloop building, and – a little further up into the woods – the old water-powered sash-saw.
![Bruosen](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/1/kvh_376-1_z.jpg?itok=OZpy9qgo)
Bru
Bruosen is one of the few river harbours in the county. As landing place for the churchgoers, this place and the boatshed environment follow a tradition that goes back to the Middle Ages, but the country store of today is much younger.
![Smokehouse in Vikøy](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/1/kvh_372_z.jpg?itok=BTL-Cz8e)
Vikøy
Through Adolph Tidemand’s detailed close-ups of smokehouses in Kvam, the vicarage in Vikøy, where he lived during his painting trips through Hardanger, has obtained a central position in the Norwegian national romanticism.
![Eidfjord church.](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/1/kvh_403-3.jpg?itok=tfrzqYxj)
Eidfjord church
The old stone church at Eidfjord has an open position on the terrace at Lægreid. In a diploma from 1310 it transpires that Torgeir on Sponheim donated a gift for the erection of the church in Eidfjord. Thus we can assume that the church was under construction at the time. The elements in the style confirm such a dating.
![Sysendammen](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/232/eid_37.jpg?itok=ibwv5qBG)
![Goltasund bridge and Goltasundet](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/190/kvh_276_goltasundet_150.jpg?itok=1CBSE3io)
Goltasundet
For generations the land-seine was the most important tool for catching herring and mackerel, and therefore a suitable casting bay was worth its weight in gold. Goltasundet (the Golta sound) on Golta was such a place. Here the herring often drifted in and fantastic casts might be made here.
![The Salting shed at Trælevika.](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/232/kvh_275-4.jpg?itok=20MdCbWg)
![St. Ludvig.](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/232/kvh_274-4s.jpg?itok=gXvooPsW)
Tyssøy
B.E.Bendixen, who has written about “The Churches in Søndre Bergenhus Amt”, believed even around 1900 that there was evidence at Tyssøy of the church or the chapel of the Holy Ludvig (Louis). Two large stone blocks had lain in the western wall of the church’s nave, and this wall showed a length of 16 meters in the terrain.