Rogaland · Norway Capital
In the destination Stavanger and the Preikestolen.
In the photo: Breiavatnet
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The city
Stavanger is the seat of Rogaland and Norway's oil city on the southwest coast. It has an old town of white wooden houses, the colourful Øvre Holmegate, a 12th-century cathedral and the Petroleum Museum around the harbour of Vågen. It is the base for the Lysefjord, the Preikestolen hike and Kjeragbolten.
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The local experience
The old town of Stavanger: about 170 white wooden houses from the 18th and 19th centuries on cobbled streets on the west side of the harbor, with the Museu das Conservas in a former sardine factory.
The Museu do Petróleo da Noruega, in a building on the edge of Stavanger's harbor that resembles a platform: the history of exploitation in the North Sea, models of platforms, diving and the storm room.
Stavanger Cathedral, begun around 1125: a stone Romanesque nave, a Gothic choir and a carved Baroque pulpit, on the square by the lake Breiavatnet in the city center.
The Pulpit: a nearly flat, square rock platform about 604 metres above the Lysefjord, reached by a mountain trail of around 4 km from the Preikestolhytta car park.
The 42-km fjord between granite walls east of Stavanger, with Preikestolen and Kjerag above, waterfalls such as Hengjanefossen and the village of Lysebotn at the end; explored on boat tours.
A rock wedged in a crevice between two cliff faces about 1,000 meters above the Lysefjord, on the summit plateau of Kjerag; the trail starts at Øygardstøl above Lysebotn and is usually done in summer.
Three 10-metre bronze swords planted in the rock at the edge of Hafrsfjord, south of Stavanger, in memory of the battle in which, according to tradition, Haroldo Cabelos Belos united Norway.
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