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Staalehuset is one of the country’s most spectacular event arenas, and stands proudly in the landscape where it
commands a wonderful view out over the approaches to Haugesund. With a capacity for 20 – 500 guests, Staalehuset
can provide excellent...
Indre Kai (Inner Quay) is an important part of the history of Haugesund. Today this area is filled with restaurants offering fantastic food. This is a great place to sit down and watch life go by, or take a stroll. If you want to learn more about...
This road was built during the Second World War and was the largest project in the history of the highway authorites. About 1000 labourers were engaged here in 1940. There are several look out points along the way where you can take a break and...
The standing stones were registered in 1919. At that time only one of the stones stood upright. The other 6 stones had been taken down and put to use as building material for bridges. The ancient monument was restored in 1952 by Jan Petersen. The...
One of Norway's finest stone monuments from the Iron Age. You will find a group of 7 stones at the farm Erland in Skjoldastraumen. The monument is very rare, because usually such monuments consist of one or two stones. The archaeologists are not...
Arquebus War History Museum is one of Norway's largest museums exhibiting artifacts from the Resistance during WWii. Covering more than 2000 m2, the museum takes the visitor through the dramatic history of the occupation on April 9th 1940, through...
Centrally placed in downtown Haugesund (close to the church) you find Karmsund folkemuseum. The museum concentrates on the history of the town and region. Exhibitions show important parts of this history: farming, herring fisheries, shipping trade...
The gallery's collection comprises of approximately 1700 works making the gallery Western Norway's third largest art institution, with the collections of Bergen and Stavanger occupying the two first places respectively. The gallery has four...
Glacial potholes are round caves in the mountain made by water, ice and stones i the last iceage. In the steep mountain walls at Rullestadjuvet you can see some of Northern Europes largest potholes; several meters in diameter. Some holes are "twins"...
On a winter's day in 1865 a herring fisherman from Jaeren found some incredibly rich copper ore in Vigsnes. By about 1895 Vigsnes was one of Europe's greatest copper mining areas, which in its time generated 70% of Norway's copper export. The Statue...
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