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![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.
![Nils Hertzber’s watercolour from 1829 gives us an impression of the burial site with the menhirs at Årbakkesanden.](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/1/kvh_222-1-1.jpg?itok=iSlCbTy_)
Årbakka- The prehistoric site
The prehistoric site at Årbakkasanden with menhirs and burial mounds has been visited, described and illustrated by many learned researchers through the last 350 years. All the same, we still know very little of this unique cultural monument.
![Amateur geologist Torgeir Garmo at work taking out crystals from the rock.](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/232/fjell_15.jpg?itok=mVKJxkJZ)
Ågotnes- crystals
Road cuts and blast areas are a joy to rock collectors, even if the disturbance to nature is ever so disfiguring. These are the best kinds of places to hunt for crystals, which otherwise are removed by weather and wind. In the Ågotnes area there are especially many beautiful crystals to be found.
![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.
![Traces of the dwellings and activity in the quarry.](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/190/nvh_464_takskifer_ulvik_2_150.jpg?itok=tTKVd-vg)
![Varghola](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/232/kvh_235-_x.jpg?itok=oGVCMzhh)
![Urangsvågen-Rubbestadneset](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/232/bo_51.jpg?itok=TOAhYhRU)
Urangsvågen-Rubbestadneset
In 1868 the first stone workers came to Rubbestadneset to take out the granite for the Skoltegrunns Pier, predecessor of the Skoltegrunns wharf in Bergen. Later granite was also taken out from the area, around Innværs Fjord and UransvågenN. The activity probably peaked around 1900, with over 40 men at work. 15 years later, it was finished.
![Portrait of Jonas Lie](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/232/kvh_194_jonas_lie.jpg?itok=TkSZobEx)
![The Salting shed at Trælevika.](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/232/kvh_275-4.jpg?itok=20MdCbWg)
![In the middle of the flat pastures at Torsnes was the farmyard of the estate, undivided until the middle of the 1700s](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/1/kvh_381-2_fonna_112.jpg?itok=3bxpYqSH)
Torsnes
When bishop J.Neumann was on a visitation in Hardanger in 1825 he also visited Torsnes, the seat of the Galtung family. They were then in the process of pulling down the old dwelling house on the farm. As the committed observer of ancient monuments and antiquarian buildings that he was, bishop Neumann has provided us with interesting details: