Valestrandfossen or ValestrandsfossenAccording to

Statens kartverk The Norwegian Mapping Authority (NMA) ( no, Statens kartverk ''or'' Kartverket, italic=invert) is Norway's national mapping agency, dealing with land surveying, geodesy, hydrographic surveying, cadastre and cartography. The current director is ...

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/ref> is a village in the municipality of Osterøy, adjacent to Norway's second-largest city and municipality Bergen, Vestland county. It lies at Sørfjorden to the west and south of the municipal centre of

Lonevåg Lonevåg is the administrative centre of Osterøy municipality in Vestland county, Norway. The village is located on the northern coast of the island of Osterøy, at the end of the long Lonevågen fjord, which branches off the main Osterfjorden ...

. Sites worth mentioning include

Hamre Hamre may refer to: Places * Hamre Township, Beltrami County, Minnesota, a civil township in Minnesota, United States *Hamre, Osterøy, a village in Osterøy municipality in Vestland county, Norway *Hamre (municipality), a former municipality in Ve ...

and

Hamre Church Hamre Church ( no, Hamre kyrkje) is a parish church of the Church of Norway in Osterøy Municipality in Vestland county, Norway. It is located in the village of Hamre. It is the church for the Hamre parish which is part of the Åsane prosti (dean ...

. Valestrandfossen has shops, a gas station, primary school, hairdressers, pubs, and Lerøy Fossen AS, the world's largest trout smokehouse.

Valestrandfossen is the largest settlement on the whole island of Osterøy. The village has a population (2019) of 1,303 and a population density of . Located by the Sørfjorden, it has a regular ferry (the ''MF Ole Bull'') that crosses the fjord to Åsane in Bergen. Bullvalestrand

The famous Norwegian violinist and composer

Ole Bull Ole Bornemann Bull (; 5 February 181017 August 1880) was a Norwegian virtuoso violinist and composer. According to Robert Schumann, he was on a level with Niccolò Paganini for the speed and clarity of his playing. Biography Background Bull was ...

had his summer house here. In 1858, he bought a farm in Valestrand. The house was designed during 1865 by his youngest brother, architect Georg Andreas Bull. Ole Bull lived there for a time principally between tours. In 1872, he bought property on the island of

Lysøen Lysøen is an island in Bjørnafjorden in Vestland county, Norway. Lysøen is also the site of Villa Lysøen (''Ole Bulls villa på Lysøen''), the home of Norwegian violin-virtuoso and composer Ole Bull until his death in 1880. Villa Lysøen ...

in what is now Bjørnafjorden Municipality, south of Bergen which became the primary residence of his family.

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Villages in Vestland Osterøy {{Vestland-geo-stub