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![Norheimsund seen from Tolo around the turn of the former century.](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/1/kvh_371-1xx.jpg?itok=N0nElTs1)
Norheim
Norheim, “the farm by the narrow sound” is mentioned in a diploma from the Middle Ages and in an inheritance document. This is one of the large farms in Hardanger, of those that belonged to the powerful families; Sandven in Kvam, Torsnes in Jondal, Aga in Ullensvang and Spånheim in Ulvik.
![Odda around the turn of the former century, with the new Hotel Hardanger](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/1/kvh_398-2.jpg?itok=OKXQDlUB)
Odda- The tourist town
The pioneering tourists in the 1830s-40s brought a momentum in the tourist traffic to the fjord and mountain country Norway. At the time Odda was a hidden Shangri-La at the bottom of Sørfjorden; the farm and the church on the green headland at the fjord. But when the steamship traffic opened the fjord landscape for tourism, in a few years Odda parish in Søndre Bergenhus County became the focal point for travellers in West Norway.
![The mountain farm Øyna in Reinsnos.](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/1/kvh_399-1x.jpg?itok=xrSyoFMA)
Reinsnos
The mountain settlement Reinsnos is situated at nearly 700 metres above sea level at the end of the Reinsnos lake; an entry point to the Hardanger plateau.
![Sandven hotel](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/232/kvh_371-1.jpg?itok=3gVdslLW)
![The décor from the Skogasel house](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/232/kvh_376-2.jpg?itok=QmBEEr5T)
![The smokehouse at Vika](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/232/kvh_378-3.jpg?itok=bQsLSdp6)
![Smokehouse in Vikøy](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/1/kvh_372_z.jpg?itok=BTL-Cz8e)
Vikøy
Through Adolph Tidemand’s detailed close-ups of smokehouses in Kvam, the vicarage in Vikøy, where he lived during his painting trips through Hardanger, has obtained a central position in the Norwegian national romanticism.
![“Standing girl”, 1908, bronze.](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/232/kvh_368-2.jpg?itok=avOcb-xD)
![Dwelling house and store from the Øystese hamlet.](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/1/kvh_370-1.jpg?itok=7m6cFMFJ)