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The Ostra chests are easily recognisable with their characteristic style.

Mjøsvågen

18.06.2018 - 20:03

Around Mjøsvågen here is still a compact marine use area. Some of the buildings are common boathouses, but most of them also house small enterprises and workshops. This is where the farmers from Øvsthus, Mjøs, Hole and other farms have supplemented their meagre incomes as smiths, brass moulders, clog makers, chest builders and decorative painters.

Kossdalsvegen

Kossdalen

18.06.2018 - 20:01

Ole Bull's villa, Valestrand

Valestrand

18.06.2018 - 20:03

The bridge at Mørkhølen

Mørkhølen

13.12.2018 - 08:48

Section of the lid of the chest painted around 1830, by Nils Johannesson Tveiterås

Tveit

16.06.2018 - 17:28

Rosemåling

Frette

06.03.2019 - 15:48

From the old road along the Åkrafjord

Åkrafjorden

19.06.2018 - 18:46

“The Karla Tannery”, Valestrand

Valestrandsfossen- tanning industry

18.06.2018 - 20:04

Valestrand became a centre for the tanning industry in Osterøy; one of the old crafts that has developed into a local industry with many places of work. From the 1870s ever more ventures were started. Many of the large sea houses we see today around the bay have been places for tanning and leather enterprises.

Lysøen, Os

Lysøen

27.03.2019 - 12:54

Lysøen, this fairytale castle with its Russian-inspired onion dome on the corner turret, stands as a reminder of the diversity of the period called Historicism and a monument to a versatile artist; a key figure in the Norwegian National Romanticism.

Ferstad, Os

Ferstad

16.06.2018 - 14:12

Ferstad is well worth a visit. The farm lies on a little hillock south of Lekven: a beautiful official residence from the 1700s.