Stathelle become a seaport from 1774. The place has retained much of its original construction and trading environment, and most of the buildings have exterior from 1830 to 1940 in the Empire style, or "Stathelle-Empire" as it is called.
Examples of this can be found in Strandgata. In Glosebakken and Rådhusbakken we see good examples of Stathelle style. Fogdegården and City Hall are also worth a look.
Take a trip over the bridge and out to the island where Fredric Croft Croft's venerable old villa is located. It was designed by architect Haldor Børve and listed in drag style / historicism in 1890-95.
At Rugtvedt in Bamble, a new exciting locality has emerged, a sandy beach that was…
Bamble is dominated by two types of landscape with completely different geological…
The Olav church ruin (Skeidi church) are the ruins of a stone church built before 1150 in…
Great hiking area near Rognstranda in Bamble. Beautiful forests and flora.
Bamble's Landscape - Exciting Geology Through Millions of Years
Langesund customs warehouse as it stands today was erected in 1869.
Tollpakkboden is a log-built warehouse, the main part of which dates from the early 1700s.
The old guardhouse is now a customs museum, with artefacts found there from long ago.
The landscape with the escarpments, "flauane" in Norwegian, is characteristic of the…
The rocks in Steinvika were created in the earth's antiquity, for approx. 461-451 million…
The history of Langøytangen lighthouse station dates back to 1828.
Tangen Fort, located at the far end of Langesundstangen, is a popular hiking area just…
As the first geopark in Scandinavia, Gea Norvegica became member of the Global Geoparks…