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![Varghola](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/232/kvh_235-_x.jpg?itok=oGVCMzhh)
![Bronze keys and remains of a wooden stick from Døso.](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/232/kvh_234-1_b.jpg?itok=EoET9UiR)
![The monks leave their mark at Lysekloster](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/232/os_24.jpg?itok=Q5bQc7i9)
Lysekloster- The monks and nature
Lysekloster was the largest agricultural property in the country when it was phased out during the Reformation in 1537. In its prime this cloister encompassed two-thirds of all the farms in Os. The monks introduced and cultivated new plant species and it was probably they who stocked the waters with fish not indigenous to the area. This legacy from the Middle Ages has left a lasting mark.
![Smedholmen, Fitjar](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/232/kvh_219-_bu.jpg?itok=RVN_WnRB)
![Liarbø, Fitjar](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/232/kvh_216-3_liarbo216a.jpg?itok=4A2LYm0f)
![Strandflat and scree by land](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/232/fi_14.jpg?itok=4i8IcPpe)
![Gjerde church at Etne](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/232/kvh_186_y.jpg?itok=6BRujecm)
![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.
![Lyse Monastery, reconstruction](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/1/kvh-239_lysekloster.jpg?itok=bc_kHrFJ)
![Lyse chapel, Os](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/1/kvh_238-1.jpg?itok=QUOPChLG)
Lyse chapel
The small white-painted chapel with the red brick tiled roof just south of the monastery ruins at Lyse was built in 1663 as a local chapel for the monastery estate, following the takeover of the property by the District Recorder (Stiftskriver) Niels Hanssøn Schmidt two years previously. The chapel, with its harmonic proportions, lies in the cultural landscape beside the grand monastery estate, witness to a time gone by. But even today, there is a tradition of high mass on the 2nd day of Ascension in Lyse Chapel.