Things to do in Ostfold, Eastern Norway: The Best Points of Interest & Landmarks

Northern Europe's best preserved Fortified town, is thriving with history, shops, galleries and café's.

This is an old listed and fine mansion in Sarpsborg. Still in use for reseptions, but available for everyone that would like to visit the buildings or just the big sourounding park.

(Roed Gaard) Roed Farm is the place for cultural experiences for the whole family! The main building is almost 300 years old and is situated in beautiful cultural landscape. If you would like a guided tour of the main building and the lovely rose garden, contact us for further details. We also accompany for private parties in the old potato storage or outside in the garden. Roed Gaard is a lively, cultural environment with many artists who have their own workshops and stalls, where you can buy their work. You will also find galleries specialising in art and craft and picture art. We won’t settle for just that though. We also have glass blowers, jewellery artists, design, wallpaper, guitar and accordion makers, photographers and a workshop where picture frames are made. In the storehouse you will find great antiques and in the farm shops you will be able to buy homemade chocolate, learn about how soap is made in the soap works and go back in time to learn about the art of weaving in the weaving house. In our café we serve freshly baked pastries. During the summer season, there are many events that take place, such as concerts and our very own Roed Rock. In the early morning of 11th March 2010, the barn at Roed Gaard burnt down. Several animals succumbed to the fire. The music school, Gallery Kvinnelist and photographer Helge Ek's studio, all situated at the farm, burnt down too. Millions of kroner worth of art were destroyed in the fire.

The Solberg Tower by ostfold's E6 has now been opened. For visitors it will become a landmark offering unexpected experiences. People have lived in and crossed this landscape for thousands of years. Norway's greatest concentration of rock art is here, and within a relatively small area are famous burial grounds and renowned fortresses, medieval churches and stately homes. The Solberg Tower stands as a fitting gateway to this proud heritage, and the visitor will leave here better informed, with a sense of wonder, and a wish to explore further. It has been designed as a living meeting point which can serve as a centre for activities. And not least of all help to increase our understanding of the ongoing work of conserving ostfold's heritage and landscape. The task of making the rich cultural sites along highway 110 between Skjeberg and Fredrikstad available to the public began in the 1950s. At Solberg the so-called Road of the Ancients meets the new E6. By the junction travelers can stop at a lay-by where art/architecture/information combine spectacularly. Not only will the 30 meter high tower be a landmark for travelers arriving in ostfold and Norway, but from the top of it visitors can see for themselves the way the heritage sites relate to the landscape. The famous sites of Solberg and Hornnes are close to the tower and some 100 others are nearby.