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The Best Attractions In Afjord Municipality

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Åfjord is a municipality in Trøndelag county, Norway. It is part of the Fosen region. The administrative centre of the municipality is the village of Årnes. Other villages in the municipality include Revsnes, Harsvika, and By. Åfjord is located on the northwestern side of the Fosen peninsula, northwest of the city of Trondheim. It is located between the municipalities of Bjugn and Roan and to the west of Verran, with Indre Fosen to the south.The 955-square-kilometre municipality is the 114th largest by area out of the 422 municipalities in Norway. Åfjord is the 253rd most populous municipality in Norway with a population of 3,263. The municipality...
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The Best Attractions In Afjord Municipality

  • 3. Hegra Festning Stjordal
    The Battle of Hegra Fortress was a 25-day engagement in the 1940 Norwegian Campaign which saw a small force of Norwegian volunteers fighting numerically superior German forces from a fortified position. After initial fighting around the Meråker Line railway line, the Norwegians pulled back into Hegra Fortress and held off further German attacks before surrendering on 5 May as one of the last Norwegian units active in southern Norway.
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  • 4. Stiklestad Nasjonale Kultursenter Verdal Municipality
    Stiklestad is a village and parish in the municipality of Verdal in Trøndelag county, Norway. It is located 4 kilometres east of the town of Verdalsøra and about 2 kilometres southeast of the village of Forbregd/Lein. The village is mainly known as the site of the Battle of Stiklestad on 29 July 1030. Stiklestad Church is located in the village and it is assumed to have been erected on the exact spot where King Olaf II Haraldsson fell in the battle. The king was buried in Nidaros , canonised there on 3 August 1031, and later enshrined in Nidaros Cathedral. Following the Lutheran reformation of 1537 the saint's remains were removed and their precise resting-place has been unknown since 1568.
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  • 5. Kystriksveien Steinkjer
    County Road 17 , also known as the Coastal Highway , is a Norwegian highway that runs from the town of Bodø in Nordland county to the town of Steinkjer in Trøndelag county . It is 630 kilometres long and includes six ferry crossings. The road runs along the coast of Nordland and Trøndelag counties through 28 different municipalities. This road is a much more scenic, albeit longer and more time-consuming, route than the inland European Route E6 highway.Prior to 1 January 2010, this was National Road 17 , but control and maintenance of the road was transferred to the counties from the national government on that date, so now it is a county road.
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  • 7. Vaernes Church Stjordal
    Værnes Church is a parish church of the Church of Norway in Stjørdal municipality in Trøndelag county, Norway. It is located in the village of Prestmoen, just south of the town of Stjørdalshalsen. It is located along the Stjørdalselva river, just east of the Trondheim Airport, Værnes. It is the church for the Stjørdal parish which is part of the Stjørdal prosti in the Diocese of Nidaros. The white, stone church was built in a long church style around the year 1100 by an unknown architect. The church seats about 320 people.
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  • 8. Hell Stasjon Hell
    Hell Station is a railway station located in the village of Hell in the Municipality of Stjørdal in the Trøndelag county, Norway. It is located at the intersection of the Nordland Line and the Meråker Line.
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