The Fantoft Stave Church lies a few kilometres to the south of Bergen city centre. While the rest of medieval Europe concentrated on erecting stone churches, highly elaborate and beautiful churches known as Stave Churches were built in Norway from wood. The Fantoft Church was originally erected in Fortun in 1150, and was moved here in the late nineteenth century. It was one of the finest examples in the country. It was largely destroyed by fire in the 1990s but has been reconstructed in painstaking detail and remains a key tourist attraction.
