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Mariakirken

Churches, Cloisters, Christianity
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Per Jahn Lavik
Apart from the king’s estate at Holmen, Håkonshallen and the lower floors of the Rosenkrantz tower, the three parish churches in the centre of Bergen ...

Bryggen

Settlements, Villages, Towns
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Per Jahn Lavik
In the 1300s Bergen was a trading centre of European dimension. The town is thought to have had around 7000 inhabitants and was the largest and most i...

Vågsbunnen

Settlements, Villages, Towns
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Per Jahn Lavik
Vågsbotn was the name of the innermost part of the eastern part of town from Auta-almenning (today’s Vetrlidsalmenning), skirting the bottom of Vågen ...

Strandsiden

Settlements, Villages, Towns
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Per Jahn Lavik
During the 1300s Strandsiden changed from a rural area with a monastery to a pulsating trading centre with boathouses, storehouses and embankment....

Verftet

Livelihood and Craftsmanship
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Per Jahn Lavik
Today the name “Verftet” is linked to both a district and conglomeration of buildings lying protected by Fredriksberg castle. The original shipyard wa...

Sandviken

Livelihood and Craftsmanship
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Per Jahn Lavik Trygve Fett
Close to the tunnel opening at Amalie Skrams vei in Ssandviken, there is a cultural monument of European dimensions; a rope making works that produced...

Fana church

Churches, Cloisters, Christianity
Frederik Konow Lund
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Per Jahn Lavik
In the Middle Ages the stone church in Fana was a place for pilgrimage, containing a miraculous silver crucifix that could heal the sick. A hill to th...

Årstad

Archaeology
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Per Jahn Lavik
Alrekstad (later Årstad) is the birthplace of Bergen. The estate was an estate for Harald Hårfagre and several of his descendants: Eirik Blodøks, Håko...

Håkonshallen

Settlements, Villages, Towns
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Per Jahn Lavik
In 1266 “brann hallin i Biorgyn” (the hall in Biorgyn burned down) the Icelandic annals recount. The building we call Håkonshallen must be one of the ...

The Rosenkrantz tower

Settlements, Villages, Towns
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Per Jahn Lavik
In the Scholeus engraving (section on the right) from the 1850s the fortified king’s estate at the entrance to Vågen has become a modern Renaissance p...

Kalandsvika

Wildlife
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Stein Byrkjeland Bjørn Moe
There is little to say about the opportunity for surveying from the bird observation tower in Kalandsvika: 155 different bird species have been sighte...

Bergenhus

Settlements, Villages, Towns
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Per Jahn Lavik
FROM CASTLE TO FORTIFICATION ...

Korskirken

Churches, Cloisters, Christianity
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Per Jahn Lavik

Domkirken

Churches, Cloisters, Christianity
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Per Jahn Lavik

Fjøsanger road

Livelihood and Craftsmanship
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Per Jahn Lavik

Troldhaugen

Dialects and arts
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Per Jahn Lavik

Munkebotn

Communications
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Per Jahn Lavik

Garnes

Communications
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Per Jahn Lavik

Fantoft Stave Church

Churches, Cloisters, Christianity
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Per Jahn Lavik
When a new church was to be built at Fortun in Sogn in 1883, the old stave church was in danger of being demolished. During the years after J.C.Dahl t...

Kyrkjebyrkjeland

Churches, Cloisters, Christianity
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Per Jahn Lavik

Åsane

Landscape
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Inge Aarseth
Most associate Åsane with ridges, naturally enough (the Norwegian word for "ridge" is "Ås"). A lesser noticed trait in the landscape are the unusual f...

Gaupås

Bedrock
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Haakon Fossen

Reppadalen

Plant life
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Bjørn Moe
The unusual bog landscape, with enormous peat deposits surrounded by steep mountainsides, makes Reppadalen in Arna an exciting, but little visited tou...

Kråmyrane

Plant life
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Bjørn Moe

Sandviksfjellet

Bedrock
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Haakon Fossen
On Sandviksfjellet there are old boulders that have been made into mountains. The stones have been stretched out or squeezed together between huge sla...

Byfjorden

Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Herman G.Gade
Swimming and fishing is fully possible in Byfjorden (By Fjord). The water is of good quality most places, after considerable resources have been used ...

Byparken

Wildlife
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Stein Byrkjeland
It isn't true that hungry students have hunted down basking ducks in the city park Byparken in their spring fervour, as rumours may have it. But, it i...

Fjellsiden

Wildlife
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Stein Byrkjeland
Møllendal graveyard is the winter home of the urban crows in Bergen. Those that do not want to stay overnight in the graveyard, perch in the lush deci...

Fløyfjellet

Plant life
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Bjørn Moe

Munkebotsdalen

Plant life
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Bjørn Moe

Rambjøra

Plant life
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Bjørn Moe Stein Byrkjeland
In Sanddalen and Helldalsåsen the building of houses has increased dramatically. Where there eariery was grazing land, hundreds of families now live. ...

Fjøsanger

Bedrock
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Jan Mangerud
Fjøsanger is known among ice age researchers from around the world. Under an excavation in 1975-77, geologists from the University of Bergen found lay...

Nordåsvatnet

Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Herman G.Gade
The Post-war Era came to Fana with its population growth and modern sanitary equipment. This had nearly catastrophic consequences for Nordåsvatnet as ...

Marmorøyen

Bedrock
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Haakon Fossen

Rådalen

Plant life
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Bernt-Håvard Øyen
"...it would not be of any particular economical interest to support the planting of forest as the forest that can be cultivated will leave much to be...

Stend station

Communications
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Per Jahn Lavik

Horda Museeum

Museums, nature conservation, cultural heritage
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Per Jahn Lavik

Håkonshella

Archaeology
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Per Jahn Lavik

Kalandsvatnet and Klokkarvatnet

Wildlife
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Stein Byrkjeland

Bergen – The Urban Community

Settlements, Villages, Towns
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Per Jahn Lavik
Bergen - our first royal residence city – has for centuries been Norway’s, and for long periods, Scandinavia’s biggest city. The historical monuments ...

Bergen - Rain City

Weather and climate
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Endre Skaar Karsten Eitrheim
"With its strange situation (surrounded by high mountains), this city has the advantage of a beautiful port and considerable shipping, but also the di...

Isdalen

Landscape
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Inge Aarseth
The valley on the inside of the Svartediks dam, a five minutes' bus ride from Bergen centre, is often referred to by Bergen folk as Isdalen ("Ice Vall...

Arnatveit

Settlements, Villages, Towns
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Per Jahn Lavik
On the farm of Arnatveit, high up on the slope above the highway, an old smokehouse remains standing in the courtyard of the main farm property, in th...

Rosesmuggrenden

Settlements, Villages, Towns
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Per Jahn Lavik Trygve Fett
THE COMMUNITIES AROUND SANDVIKEN...

Skuggestranda

Plant life
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Bjørn Moe
PARADISE FOR MOSSES ...