Fana
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History
Prior to 1972, Fana was an independent municipality which territory also included today's boroughs of YtrebygdaYtrebygda
Ytrebygda is a borough of the city of Bergen, Norway.-Location:Ytrebygda is located southwest of the city center. It was originally part of Fana municipality that was incorporated in Bergen in 1972, and later part of the Fana district, but was administratively a separate district in 1990...
, Fyllingsdalen
Fyllingsdalen
Fyllingsdalen is a borough of the city of Bergen, Norway, located south-west of the city centre in the valley to the west of Løvstakken. The early name of the valley, Fynö dalen, was the origin of the name of the farm which gave Fyllingsdalen its name, Fyllingen...
, and the southernmost part of Årstad.
Geography
Fana is at 159.7 km2 the geographically largest of the city's boroughs. Most major industries in Fana are located near NesttunNesttun
Nesttun is an urban centre and neighbourhood in the southern parts of the city of Bergen, Norway, located approximately 10 km south of the city centre. It was the centre of Fana municipality, which merged with Bergen in 1972, and is today the administration centre of Fana borough. Nesttun...
, the administrative centre of Fana until the municipality was incorporated into Bergen. The north-eastern part is dominated by residential areas, being home to the majority of the borough's population, while the rest of the borough contains mostly forest, mountains, some farmland, in addition to a few minor settlements such as Fanahammeren
Fanahammeren
Fanahammeren is a residential area in Bergen, Norway. Located several kilometers south of the main body of the city, Statistics Norway considers it a separate urban area. On January 1, 2008, Fanahammeren had a population of 3647 and a population density of 1317 per square kilometre. The urban area...
, Nordvåg and Krokvåg.
Landmarks
Gamlehaugen
Gamlehaugen is a mansion in Bergen, Norway, and the residence of the Norwegian Royal Family in the city. Gamlehaugen has a history that goes as far back as the Middle Ages, and the list of previous owners includes many of the wealthiest men in Bergen...
is located by Nordåsvannet in northern Fana, south of Fjøsanger. The mansion is the residence of the Royal Family
Norwegian Royal Family
The Royal Family of Norway is the family of King Harald V of Norway. In Norway there is a distinction between the Royal House and the Royal Family. The Royal House includes only the King and his spouse, the Queen, the King's eldest son with spouse, being the Crown Prince and Crown Princess, and the...
in Bergen, and is surrounded by a park. It was commissioned by Christian Michelsen
Christian Michelsen
Peter Christian Hersleb Kjerschow Michelsen was a Norwegian shipping magnate and statesman. He was the first Prime Minister of an independent Norway from 1905 to 1907...
, a shipping magnate and later Prime Minister of Norway, in 1899, and he lived there until his death in 1925. While the park is open to the public at almost all times, the building is only open for a few hours a day in the summer and receives about 2000 visitors a year.
Hop
Hop
Hop or hops may refer to:* Hop, a kind of small jump, usually using only one leg* Hop , a genus of climbing flowering plants* Hops, the female flower clusters of one species of hop, used primarily as a flavouring and stability agent in beer...
is the location of Troldhaugen
Troldhaugen
Troldhaugen was the home of Norwegian composer Edvard Grieg and his wife Nina Grieg. Troldhaugen is located in Bergen, Norway and consists of the Edvard Grieg Museum, Grieg’s villa, the hut where he composed music, and his and his wife's gravesite....
, a museum and home of the composer Edvard Grieg
Edvard Grieg
Edvard Hagerup Grieg was a Norwegian composer and pianist. He is best known for his Piano Concerto in A minor, for his incidental music to Henrik Ibsen's play Peer Gynt , and for his collection of piano miniatures Lyric Pieces.-Biography:Edvard Hagerup Grieg was born in...
1885-1907.
A replica of the Fantoft Stave Church has been located in Fana since 1997. The original burned down in 1992, 109 years after it was moved to Bergen in 1883.
- Fantoft stave churchFantoft stave churchFantoft Stave Church is a reconstructed stave church in the Fana borough of the city of Bergen, Norway.The church was originally built in Fortun in Sogn, a village near inner or eastern end of Sognefjord around the year 1150. In the 19th century the church was threatened by demolition, as were...
(built 1150, rebuilt 1997). - Fana churchFana ChurchFana Church is located in Fanahammeren in the borough of Fana in Bergen, Norway. The existing stone building celebrated 850 years anniversary in 2003, but the church building history is long and complicated...
Sport
Many notable sports teams come from the Fana area, such as IL Gneist, IL Bjarg and Fana IL and the athletics club FIK BFG FanaFIK BFG Fana
Friidrettsklubben BFG Fana is a Norwegian athletics club from Fana in Bergen, founded in 1987 as an umbrella team for Bjarg, Fana and Gneist.BFG Fana uses the Fana stadion, and hosted the Bislett Games in 2004....
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Transport
European route E39
E 39 is the designation of a 1330 km long north-south road in Norway and Denmark, running from Klett just south of Trondheim to Aalborg, via Orkanger, Vinjeøra, Halsa ... Straumsnes, Krifast, Batnfjordsøra, Molde ... Vestnes, Skodje, Ålesund ... Volda ... Nordfjordeid ... Sandane, Førde,...
passes through Fana. Between the border with Årstad north of Fjøsanger and Hop, E39 is the 4-lane dual carriage road Fritz C. Riebers veg. At Hop, E39 branches off from the 4-lane road and passes through two tunnels to Nesttun, wherefrom it continues south-westwards through Valla
Valla
-People:*Esat Valla, Kosovar Albanian painter* Gerd-Liv Valla, Norwegian trade union leader*Kristin Valla, Norwegian writer and journalist*Kristin Hille Valla, Norwegian politician for the Centre Party...
and Kaland
Kaland
Kaland is a village in Meerut district. It is 6 km from Sardhana and 22 km from Meerut. It is famous for cansugars.Mr Devendra also from this village which has no. 1 place in Kalashre community....
before entering Os
Os, Hordaland
Os is a municipality in the county of Hordaland, Norway. Due to its proximity to Bergen, Os is experiencing strong population growth. -History:...
. From Hop, Fritz C. Riebers veg continues southwards as Rv 580
Norwegian national road
Norwegian national road , are roads thus categorized by the Norwegian Public Roads Administration which also maintains them...
to Lagunen Storsenter
Lagunen Storsenter
Lagunen Storsenter is one of the largest shopping centres in Norway, and was in 2002 the fifth largest in Scandinavia, with a turnover of 2,540 billion Norwegian kroner. It is located in the borough Fana in Bergen, Norway's second largest city. The shopping centre was opened in 1985. It has 135...
. Eastwards, Rv 580 follows E39 to Nesttun, where it branches off and runs through Haukeland and Espeland
Espeland
Espeland is a village in Arna borough in Bergen, Norway. As of January 1, 2008, the population of the Espeland urban area is 1937. The urban area covers a land area of 2.14 square kilometres, and has a population density of 905 per square kilometre. Espeland is known for the Espeland concentration...
to Indre Arna
Indre Arna
Indre Arna is a settlement in Arna borough in Bergen, Norway. While Indre Arna is relatively far from most of the city by road, an 8-minute train journey through Ulriken connects Indre Arna to the city centre. On January 1, 2008, the Indre Arna urban settlement, as defined by Statistics Norway, had...
in Arna
Arna, Norway
Arna is a borough and suburb of Bergen, Norway and a former municipality in Hordaland county.Arna has approximately 12,000 inhabitants. Situated behind mount Ulriken, Arna is geographically close to downtown Bergen, but it takes some time to drive there by road as there is no road tunnel as of yet....
borough.
Prior to the construction of Fritz C. Riebers veg, the main road between central Bergen and Fana had been Rv 582, which passes through Storetveit, Paradis, Hop, Nesttun and Skjold from Årstad borough to Lagunen Storsenter. Other significant roads include Rv 546 from Lagunen Storsenter through Fanahammeren to Krokvåg, Rv 585 from Landås
Landås
Landås is a neighbourhood in the city of Bergen, Norway. Landås is located by the western side of the Ulriken mountain massif, from south-east of Haukeland University Hospital to Nattland almost 3 km further south. It was the last part of former Årstad municipality to be urbanised, the...
in Årstad through Nattland
Nattland
Nattland is a neighbourhood in Årstad and Fana boroughs in Bergen, Norway. It is located south of Landås and north-east of Paradis, although, like every neighbourhood outside of Bergenhus borough, it has no clearly defined borders...
to Paradis, Fv 163
Norwegian county road
A Norwegian county road is a highway in Norway that is owned and maintained by the local county municipality. Some of the roads have road signs. The signs are white with black numbers.-History:...
over Fanafjellet to Nordvik, and Fv 183 past Bjøllebotn
Bjøllebotn
Bjøllebotn is a residential area near the commercial centre Nesttun in Bergen, Norway.Bjøllebotn has about 250 residents living in 100 houses, mostly detached and villa houses. At the time of the founding of Bjøllebotn in the 1970s, the roads were made up of gravel. Bjøllebotn expanded twice in the...
to Myrdal.
Due to the insufficient standard of E39, the main road between Bergen and Os and Stavanger
Stavanger
Stavanger is a city and municipality in the county of Rogaland, Norway.Stavanger municipality has a population of 126,469. There are 197,852 people living in the Stavanger conurbation, making Stavanger the fourth largest city, but the third largest urban area, in Norway...
, plans have been prepared for a new 4-lane road southwards from Bergen. The new road, which will branch off from Fritz C. Riebers veg north of Lagunen, will be funded by toll revenue.
As elsewhere in Bergen, the bus service in Fana is operated by Tide
Tide (transportation company)
Tide ASA is a public transport company in Hordaland, Norway which resulted from the merger of Gaia Trafikk and Hardanger Sunnhordlandske Dampskipsselskap . The company provides the public transit network in the city of Bergen, and most of the bus service in Hordaland...
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Education
There are 13 elementary schoolElementary school
An elementary school or primary school is an institution where children receive the first stage of compulsory education known as elementary or primary education. Elementary school is the preferred term in some countries, particularly those in North America, where the terms grade school and grammar...
s, three lower secondary schools, two combined elementary/lower secondary schools, one special school, and 3 upper secondary schools in Fana. With the exception of the upper secondary schools, which are administered by Hordaland county, the schools are owned and administered by Bergen municipality.