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Architecture

Architecture in Norway is more than the National Opera in Oslo. In Fjord Norway you will find a rich variety of interesting buildings and construction, both ultra modern design, traditional housing and specific styles of architecture such as the famous Art Nouveau buildings in Ålesund and Bryggen, the old Hanseatic wharf in Bergen.

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Vik

Hopperstad Stave Church

Hopperstad stave church is one of the oldest and biggest stave churches in Norway.


Copyright © Høgskulen i Volda

Giske

Skjonghelleren

Skjonghelleren is situated on Valderøy in Giske municipality, and is an exciting cave 57 metres up in the mountain side. The cave has got a 100 metres deep...


Copyright © Odd Bjørn Bendiksen

Flora

WWII Relics

Flora: In 1942 the Germans built an artillery site in Havreneset with 6 French 155 mm guns. After the war the guns were removed, but one is still standing. In...


Copyright © Tor Inge Vormedal

Haugesund

Haugesund Town Hall

Haugesund Town Hall was a gift from shipowner Knut Knutsen OAS and his wife Elisabeth. The town hall was designed by architects Gudolf Blakstad and Hermann...


Copyright © Terje Rakke/Nordic Life/Fjord Norway

Aurland

Bakka church

Nærøy community in the parish of Aurland consists of the small villages: Dyrdal, Styvi, Tufte, Bakka and the inhabitants in the Nærøy valley/Gudvangen. The...


Copyright © Øyvind Giske/ Industrikopi

Kristiansund

Fishing village of Grip

Situated 14 km out to sea, the island of Grip is part of Kristiansund municipality. It is a small fishing community made up of more than 80 islands of all...


Kvekerhuset på Stakland

Tysvær

Quaker House, Stakland

The only remaining intact Quaker House in Scandinavia with its own cemetery. Open by arrangement.


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Kvam

Ingebrigt Vik Museum

One of the few museums exhibiting sculptures in Norway. It is an attractive, octagonal building in the centre of Øystese, and contains almost all the works of...


vev

Naustdal

Vevring church

The altarpiece from ca. 1510, made as an altarpiece in Lübeck, is a so-called Maria-altarpiece with Reformation utforming. Altar candlesticks from 1707,...


Copyright © Hanne Sundbø

Strand

Mølleparken

The beautiful park by the Director`s residence, established in cooperation with the milling company at Tau, is now open to the public. Brugsløa is an old barn...


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