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![Xylograph of the shipyard, Bergen](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/232/kvh_260-1_0.jpg?itok=JGCkIcM5)
Verftet
Today the name “Verftet” is linked to both a district and conglomeration of buildings lying protected by Fredriksberg castle. The original shipyard was founded in the 1780s by Georg Brunchorst and Georg Vedeler. It was called Gerogenes Verft (the shipyards of the Georgs), and here ships were both built and repaired in the years after 1786.
![Troldhaugen, Bergen](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/232/kvh_263-2xx.jpg?itok=6ohWsEhp)
![Boatshed](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/232/kvh_335-3.jpg?itok=egD0W5wD)
![Boat engines, Norwegian Engine Museum in Skånevik](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/190/kvh_189_motormuseum_1_150.jpg?itok=CDwNdWQJ)
![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.
![D/S «Seimstrand» at bay in Salhus around 1906](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/232/kvh_264-1.jpg?itok=9ymiBDPa)
Salhus
Salhus has been a connecting point for sea travellers far back in time. The name probably derives from the Old Norse word sáluhús, “house for travellers”. The name may indicate that this was a place for an inn even in the Middle Ages. The place is eminently situated in the route to and from Bergen. For travellers coming by boat from Sogn and Nordhordland, Salhus is the last stop before Bergen. Travellers from the communities in Voss also came this way earlier when they were going to Bergen
![Rådalen](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/304/radalen_endret_til_rgb.jpg?itok=vQIYLmtp)
Rådalen
"...it would not be of any particular economical interest to support the planting of forest as the forest that can be cultivated will leave much to be desired in the way of growth potential." These words stem from the economist that at the end of the 1800s was sent to Stend to inspect the planned reforestation in person. The pioneer G.A.Wilson put the economist's words to shame. The spruce that was planted in Rådalen in the period 1867–1869 became a landmark. No other stand of forest in Scandinavia can boast more trees per unit area.
![Old pine forest (Bjørn Moe)](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/232/berg_31_0.jpg?itok=MQkkp4J8)
![Foglefonna and Sandvikedalen with Hardangerjøkulen in the distance.](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/232/etne_40.jpg?itok=QkNKWy9j)
Mosnes
The permanently-protected Mosneselva River, with its meltwater from Folgefonna, runs out into Åkra Fjord by the roadless and uninhabited Mosnes. Those who once lived here were forced to surrender to the ravages of Nature. In the autumn of 1962 there was a flood so great that the people were driven from their farms.
![English Yew tree i Langebudalen.](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/190/nvh_247_barlind_etne_150.jpg?itok=JDhAo7PB)