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Nils Hertzberg’s prospectus from 1825 of “Ålmerket” and the site of the long ship shed.

Kinsarvik

29.04.2018 - 11:55

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.

The quartz quarry in the mountainside above Kvalvikane

Kvalvikane

27.05.2018 - 15:24

In Ålvik quartz has long been used to produce ferro-silicon. The quartz was collected from the other side of the fjord, from the mountainside above Kvalvikane.

Skredhaugen

Skredhaugen

27.05.2018 - 15:27

This little mountain in the picture sticks up because the layers are tilted on their sides.

Toftøyna

27.03.2019 - 15:07

Hans Jacob Meyer's sculpture Mother and child from 1954, steeple base, Nonneseter monastery

Nonneseter Monastery

12.06.2018 - 19:11

Model of the king’s estate around 1300

Bergenhus

12.05.2020 - 14:50

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