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The beautiful, ungovernable Rjukan waterfall had the power, and the engineer, Sam Eyde, and the physicist, Kristian Birkeland, had the know-how.
Rjukan
Mikaelshulen, or St. Mikael's Cave, is a mountain cave in the steep cliff face on the eastern side of Norsjø in Skien.
Skien
Skien sluse er en del av den første utbyggingen av Telemarkskanalen, Norsjø-Skienkanalen, som blei påbegynt i 1854 og offisielt åpnet i 1861.
Lunde
Organic herb garden with approx. 400 spices and medical plants, roses, old perennials and lilies.
Siljan
Osebro is the best preserved part of Porsgrunn town.
Porsgrunn
Oppelv Skåtøy is a network of ten companies on Skåtøy, which deliver everything from accommodation, food & drink, art & culture, as well as activities.
Skåtøy
Exciting copper mine in a small community built upp due to mining.
Åmdals Verk
North of Løveid locks in Skien, along the Telemark Canal, lies Mikaelshulen - a mountain cave set in the rockface approx. 30 meters above the water surface.
Skien
The Glaser mine is the first mining project of Fossum iron works, and the earliest dated iron ore mine in Norway, completed in 1543.
Skien
Øvre Verket represents one of the most important culturally historic places from the years of industrialization in Norway.
Ulefoss
The Ibsen Staircase is a concrete and granite structure with a bust of Henrik Ibsen. It features 32 steps adorned with quotes from "Peer Gynt".
Skien
During the WWII Vemork in Rjukan was in focus for their production of heavy water. The heavy water war stopped the Germans in developing the atom bomb.
Rjukan
The rocks in Steinvika were created in the earth's antiquity, for approx. 461-451 million years ago, in the latter part of the period called the Ordovician.
Langesund
The Rjukan Waterfall is unfortunately much less impressive than it used to be as most of the water has now been diverted into pipes running to the Vemork power station.
Rjukan
The Skinnarland Collection houses more than 100 works of art by sculptor Knut Skinnarland and a replica of his studio in Rauland.
Rauland
Vinjestoga is the childhood home of the poet, journalist and linguist Aasmund Olavsson Vinje (1818-1870).
Vinje
Fjoneferja i Nissedal, MF Nissen, transport passengers and cars, from Fjone to Framnes, across the 500 meter wide Fjonesundet, .
Nissedal
Brekkeparken in Skien is a lovely park with beautiful flower beds, and with lots of history in the main building and the old houses from Telemark.
Skien
Gorningen, Siljan (Geopark): Explore 10,000 years of history, from early settlement to timber floating. Central to the Gea Norvegica UNESCO Geopark.
Siljan
The Kulturlandskapssenteret accepts groups all year round and has a visitor section at Holm Landhandel and the Kulturlandskapskulen right next to Hjartdal church.
Hjartdal