Rennesøy is a former municipality in Rogaland county, Norway. It was merged into Stavanger municipality on 1 January 2020. It was located in the traditional district of Ryfylke. The administrative centre of the municipality is the village of Vikevåg. Other villages in Rennesøy included Askje and Sørbø. The municipality encompassed a number of islands on the south side of the Boknafjorden, north of the city of Stavanger.
View of the Askjesund Bridge in Rennesøy
Aerial view of the municipality
View of a farm on Mosterøy island
View of the Utstein Abbey on Klosterøy
Stavanger is a city and municipality in Norway. It is the third largest city and third largest metropolitan area in Norway and the administrative center of Rogaland county. The municipality is the fourth most populous in Norway. Located on the Stavanger Peninsula in southwest Norway, Stavanger counts its official founding year as 1125, the year the Stavanger Cathedral was completed. Stavanger's core is to a large degree 18th- and 19th-century wooden houses that are protected and considered part of the city's cultural heritage. This has caused the town center and inner city to retain a small-town character with an unusually high ratio of detached houses, and has contributed significantly to spreading the city's population growth to outlying parts of Greater Stavanger.
(top down, clockwise) Breiavatnet Rica Forum Hotel Stavanger aerial photo Lille Stokkavann Monument to the Battle of Hafrsfjord View of Vagen
Iron Age farm
Stavanger Cathedral, the oldest cathedral in Norway.
The oil industry is the backbone of Stavanger's economy.