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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.
![A rainy day at the Fish market, in the 1930s. (Alf Adriansen)](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/232/berg_23.jpg?itok=-R4cMftI)
Bergen- Rain City
"With its strange situation (surrounded by high mountains), this city has the advantage of a beautiful port and considerable shipping, but also the disadvantage that once on land one cannot get to the city without great inconvenience. This is because the weather in the vicinity of these high mountains is extremely unpleasant and rainy. There has even evolved an expression that is always rains in Bergen, and we have not experienced anything to counteract this saying." (a quote by the Dutch professor Fabricius after a visit to Bergen in ca. 1780).
![Bleie](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/232/ull_15.jpg?itok=TPU13Vi-)
Bleie
"What an adventure it was, that big ships came from foreign lands, to collect something so simple as ice. They came like a gust from the wider world, to a little, forgotten village society", wrote local historian Knut L.Måge.
![Hardanger Folk Museum](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/190/hardanger20folkemuseum.jpg?itok=qxQqq1YB)
![The Boat Hall at the Horda Museum houses 26 clinker-built, open wooden boats](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/190/kvh_266_hordamuseet_2_150_0.jpg?itok=hUA-sFmd)
![Håhaugsteinen](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/232/kvh_388-2.jpg?itok=DKaS4quO)
![](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/304/hakonshella_kvh_262-1_0_0.png?itok=8_yavUCr)
![Nils Hertzberg’s prospectus from 1825 of “Ålmerket” and the site of the long ship shed.](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/232/kvh_390-4.jpg?itok=xZB1WC6Y)
Kinsarvik
Kinsarvik has probably been a centre for the inner Hardanger districts back in prehistory. History tells us that in medieval times there was a marketing place, a “kaupang”, here; a connecting point in the communications between east and west. There were supposedly around 300 residents here but the place was likely wiped out in a great fire.
![From Måge](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/1/kvh_394-1.jpg?itok=hO2-z3lh)
Måge
Steatite is a type of stone that is abundant in Hardanger. There are large steatite deposits in the mountain below Folgefonna. These deposits are visible both in Krossdalen in Jondal, at Kveitno in Odda and at Måge in Ullensvang. There are many traces of steatite quarrying in Hardanger, and one of the largest fields is in the hillside above Måge.
![Oksen](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/232/ull_37.jpg?itok=oTLfqSL6)