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![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)
![Svartediket med Vidden i bakgrunnen (Helge Sunde)](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/304/isdalen_endret_til_rgb.jpg?itok=WdgQVjEL)
Isdalen
The valley on the inside of the Svartediks dam, a five minutes' bus ride from Bergen centre, is often referred to by Bergen folk as Isdalen ("Ice Valley") - justifiably, since the area could have been described in textbooks for its ice-carved land forms. The glacier's polishing over ca. 40 ice ages has created a magnificient landscape. The original ice valley climbs up behind Ulriken at the end of Svartediket.
![Korskirken](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/190/korskirken.jpg?itok=LK8XAlZN)
![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.
![Hans Jacob Meyer's sculpture Mother and child from 1954, steeple base, Nonneseter monastery](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/190/kvh_258_meyer_tarnfoten_150.jpg?itok=yxLrWpYT)
![Fra Blåmanen mot Vardegga og Ulriken.](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/190/vidden.jpg?itok=8VZJtCoS)
![Langavatnet, Åsane (Svein Nord)](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/1/berg_6_cmyk_0.jpg?itok=EdtUxacZ)
Åsane
Most associate Åsane with ridges, naturally enough (the Norwegian word for "ridge" is "Ås"). A lesser noticed trait in the landscape are the unusual flat areas that lie between the ridges. The Dalselva River, which was channeled at the end of the 1950s, runs down only 2.5 metres from Lake Langavatnet by Vågsbotn to Flatevad, where it goes over into rapids by Fossekleiva. The layers of gneiss stand nearly vertically, and the mountain surface is so even that one might think it had been planed with a planer.