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For about 1000 years Tokke has had an export industry of whetstones. For Norwegian Vikings whetstone from Eidsborg was an effective weapon for throwing as the historic sagas tell us.
Høydalsmo
Tinn Museum is a open air museum with houses from before the Black Death and onwards. The oldest building, a cage, was built before 1350.
Rjukan
Visit the magnificent Heddal Stave church in Notodden - the largest wooden stave church in Norway.
Notodden
Vinjestoga is the childhood home of the poet, journalist and linguist Aasmund Olavsson Vinje (1818-1870).
Vinje
Norway's only porcelain factory, Porsgrund's Porcelain Factory, is located in Porsgrunn and is known for high quality and innovative design. Visit the factory outlet and make a great purchase.
Porsgrunn
Strømtangen fyr is one of three lighthouses in Kragerø and lies between Rapen and Skjørsvik. The other two lighthouses are Jomfruland and Stavseng.
Kragerø
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
Støle Church is a charming little wooden church from 1892. It is located on the old coastal road between Kragerø and Risør, 15 minutes drive from central Kragerø by ferry and car, or 20 minutes by car from the E-18 in Sannidal.
Kragerø
350m high cliff with buoyancy!
Dalen
Bamble's Landscape - Exciting Geology Through Millions of Years
Langesund
At Porsgrund's Porcelain Factory, you can see how porcelain painters decorate porcelain, including the world-famous straw pattern.
Porsgrunn
Myllarheimen in Arabygdi, Vinje, is the home of the artist and fiddler Torgeir Augundson (1801-1872), better known as the "Millerboy".
Rauland
The Rjukan Railway was built by Norsk Hydro, and opened in 1909. It's a unique railway which enabled Sam Eyde to build a power station and factories.
Miland
The history of Sondre Norheim begins in Morgedal, Telemark.
Morgedal
Kapitelberget Skien: Medieval crypt church built on a 430M-year-old coral reef. A protected site with unique Silurian fossils.
Skien
Glasergruva Mine (1543): Norway's oldest datable iron mine in Skien. Discover the history behind Fossum Ironworks & this protected monument.
Skien
Gorningen, Siljan (Geopark): Explore 10,000 years of history, from early settlement to timber floating. Central to the Gea Norvegica UNESCO Geopark.
Siljan
Snipetorp, Skien's oldest residential quarter and residence of Henrik Ibsen's parents, survived the city fires in 1854 and 1886.
Skien
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 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