Sølvberget is a giant structure in the middle of Stavanger city centre’s low-rise neighbourhoods. Loved and disliked, like many other things in the city. Big and small, new and old, beautiful and ugly – Stavanger is a city of contrasts. Why does the city look the way it does?
The tour begins outside Sølvberget and continues through Stavanger city centre and “Old Stavanger” to Eiganes, with its villas and parks in the city’s most prestigious western district. The route then heads eastwards, passing the high-rise dreams of the 1980s and today, before reaching Stavanger’s old working-class and community hall districts, as well as the new gourmet street, Pedersgaten. The tour ends at Arneageren, where it began.
Along the way, city antiquarian Hanne Windsholt shares the story of Stavanger’s 900-year urban development: city fires and expansion, building traditions and architecture, demolition and preservation, industries and urban planning ideals, poverty and wealth, building regulations and the sometimes creative ways in which local residents have navigated these rules.
Approx. 4.5 km / 1.5 hours.
The event is part of Kapittel – Stavanger International Festival of Literature and Freedom of Expression, 16–20 September 2026.
More information, the programme and tickets can be found at www.kapittel.no.
At some events at Sølvberget and during the Kapittel Festival, photographs and video recordings are taken for documentation purposes and for use on social media.
