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![Prospect of Alvøen, Bergen](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/232/kvh_262-x.jpg?itok=LxWnEEWq)
Alvøen
Alvøen is one of the oldest industrial places in Norway. As early as the 1620s a gunpowder mill was built here. The place itself was well situated for industrial activity, lying only 100 m from the waterfall, which provided power for the mill, and a good harbour wherefrom the products were shipped. The success of the gun-powder mill varied in the 1600s and 1700s, but what made Alvøen best known was its paper production.
![Detail from smokehouse, Arnatveit, Bergen](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/232/kvh_265-2.jpg?itok=q06FVq1z)
Arnatveit
On the farm of Arnatveit, high up on the slope above the highway, an old smokehouse remains standing in the courtyard of the main farm property, in the place of the old common courtyard. Today this farm lies at the outskirts of a large housing estate. Most of the farmland of the other farm properties has been sold to benefit the city’s need of sites for the new community of Arna.
![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.
![Domkirken](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/190/kvh_256_domkirken_150.jpg?itok=kfZkGtiZ)
![Fantoft stave church](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/190/kvh_267_fantoft_150.jpg?itok=hZdUT-Rm)
![Garnes station](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/232/kvh_265-3_obs.jpg?itok=A2hKkhnl)
![Korskirken](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/190/korskirken.jpg?itok=LK8XAlZN)
![The church at Kyrkjebyrkjeland was pulled down in 1878.](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/232/kvh-267-1x.jpg?itok=fL3_DjIv)
![The interior of Mariakirken, Bergen](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/232/kvh_256.1.jpg?itok=dmJ7QmNt)
Mariakirken
Apart from the king’s estate at Holmen, Håkonshallen and the lower floors of the Rosenkrantz tower, the three parish churches in the centre of Bergen are what have been preserved from medieval Bergen: Mariakirken, Korskirken and Olavskirken (the cathedral). The Romanesque base of the tower from Nonneseter monastery church on the spit between the two Lundegård lakes can still be seen in the landscape, while the other medieval buildings now lie in ruins: the town’s oldest town hall and wine cellar at Nikolaikirkealmenning, Lavranskirken and Maria Gildeskåle between Mariakirken and Bryggens Museum and the Katarina hospital on the north side of Dreggsalmenningen.