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![The rock carvings at Bakko.](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/190/kvh_384-23.jpg?itok=SkUv1D2l)
Bakko
Everyone knows the famous painting by Tidemand & Gude “Brudeferden i Hardanger” (The Wedding Party in Hardanger) one of the great icons in the National Gallery. Some have, in a humorous lack of respect for this masterpiece linked the concept of “bride’s passage” to another pictorial presentation in Hardanger. This is found on the farm Bakko in Herand, carved in the rock by an unknown artist around 3,000 years ago.
![Herandsholmen](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/232/kvh_383-2.jpg?itok=1_UHuD_P)
![The guesthouse](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/1/kvh_366-1.jpg?itok=GUuS5PEL)
Kongstun
In the Middle Ages the farmers were under obligation to transport state officials. The bishops were entitled to 18 horses when they travelled about on visitations, and the king could requisition free transport.
![The state residence at Holmen painted by Catharine Kølle, undated.](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/1/kvh_359-2.jpg?itok=akYYierY)
Holmen
HOLMEN AND THE KØLLE FAMILY Holmen lies by the fjord, innermost in Ulvikpollen. Originally this was a small smallholding or coast dweller’s place belonging to the farm Håheim. Major Johan Henrik Palludan obtained leasehold for a part of Holmen in 1773, and erected a grand house, as he was the head of Nordre Hardangerske kompani. In 1806 Mrs Palludin sold Holmen to the somewhat eccentric theologian Kristian Kølle, and thus the Kølle family came to Ulvik. Today the Kølle house in Holmen is gone, today it is the residence of the principal of the State horticultural school that occupies the ground – a villa in the dragon style from the turn of the previous century.
![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)
![Bruosen](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/1/kvh_376-1_z.jpg?itok=OZpy9qgo)
Bru
Bruosen is one of the few river harbours in the county. As landing place for the churchgoers, this place and the boatshed environment follow a tradition that goes back to the Middle Ages, but the country store of today is much younger.
![Håbrekke farm](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/232/bru.jpg?itok=oPLcku2-)
![Sandven hotel](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/232/kvh_371-1.jpg?itok=3gVdslLW)
![Tangarås](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/1/kvh_377-2.jpg?itok=GLZcKtJn)
Tangarås
From his loft window on the doctor’s farm at Tangarås the young Hans Ernst Kinck had a view of the fjord and the Mauranger mountains. The fjord settlements in West Norway made a strong impression on the young boy when his family moved from Setesdal, from “the stifling mystique of the ballad”, to Strandebarm in 1876. The new district doctor bought the old captain’s farm at Tangarås, which had for some time been a military head farm after Håbrekke further into the settlement.
![Hunter carvings](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/1/kvh_373-3.jpg?itok=ZQEWPiHG)
Vangdal
At Salthamaren in Vangdalsberget it is thought that salt was burned some time in history, and deep layers of coal in the ground show that fire has been made up here several times. But they were hardly salt-burners, the first people who stopped here. Some of them carved figures into the rock. On top of the rocky outcrop, furthest out on the cliff, a group of Stone Age hunters carved animal figures. More than 1,500 years later Bronze Age farmers drew ship figures at the foot of the rock. Both these works of art - some of the oldest in Hordaland – are still visible, carved in the rock at Salthamaren.