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| In Fekjo Cultural & Heritage Park you will find cultural legacy from both pre-historic and historic times.The burial mounds at the site date back to the Viking era, about 900 A.D. In 1923 archeologists, at the wish of the local community, examined 10 of the 20 burial mounds at Fekjo. Finds were made in three of the excavated burial mounds. It is interesting to note that most of the examined burial mounds are women’s graves. Within the Cultural and Heritage Park there are also 7 registered charcoal pits and one smelting furnace for the produktion of iron. There are only a few charcoal pits to be seen today and the smelting work is gone. The charcoal that was burned was either used in the production of iron or in the smithy on the farms. Iron was an important commodity for many mountain settlements at that time. At Fekjo you can vistit a barn and an old storage house for hay, which were still in use until around 1920. There are also modern art installations in the park.
Modern art installations
House of Wind Drawings and Resonance Colours – Gunveig Nerol & Terje Isungset
In this permanent landscape installation, modern art walks hand in hand with historical roots of the area. 7 houses are placed as a village in the Cultural and Heritage Park. Spectators may walk from house to house, through drawings, glance through coloured mirrors and compose a sound experience by playing the sound elements in each house.
For individual guests:
Drive along Rv 7 west of the centre of Geilo. After a couple of kilometers, turn left down to the bathing place. Park the car by the bathing place and walk about 1 km to the west along the path. You can also walk or cycle from Geilojordet in the centre. Follow the marked signs for the path “Ustedalsfjorden Rundt”, it is about 4 km from the centre of Geilo to Fekjo.
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