Horten

Horten is a metropolis and municipality in Vestfold County, Norway—placed alongside the Oslofjord. The administrative centre of the municipality is the town of Horten. The municipality additionally consists of the metropolis of Asgardstrand and the villages of Borre, Skoppum, and Nykirke. The city of Horten became separated from the municipality of Borre to become a municipality of its own in 1858. The neighboring municipalities of Borre and Horten had been merged returned collectively on 1 January 1988. The name of the brand new united municipality becomes first Borre, however after a referendum it becomes modified to Horten on 1 June 2002. The neighborhood newspaper in Horten is known as Gjengangeren, and covers normally local news.

It is likewise to be had online Borre National Park incorporates the largest known burial site in Scandinavia. It additionally has the biggest collection of king's graves in Scandinavia. Asgardstrand has been a vacation and bathing vacation spot in view that 1920. It had already become an artists' colony through then, attracting painters inclusive of Edvard Munch and Fritz Thaulow. Edvard Munch spent a total of seven summers at his excursion domestic in Asgardstrand, referred to as Munchs Lille Hus "Munch's Little House". The residence is now a museum, positioned on Munch's Street.