Valestrandsfossen

Valestrandsfossen or Valestrandfossen is a village in Osterøy Municipality in Vestland county. It lies along the Sørfjorden, just across the fjord from Bergen Municipality and about northeast of the city of Bergen, the second largest city in Norway. Valestrandsfossen lies about to the southwest of the village of Lonevåg, about southeast of the village of Hamre, and about northwest of the village of Haus.
Valestrandfossen is the largest settlement on the whole island of Osterøy. The village has a population of and a population density of.
Valestrandsfossen has shops, a gas station, primary school, hairdressers, pubs, and Lerøy Fossen AS which is the world's largest trout smokehouse. Due to its location by the Sørfjorden, it has a regular ferry that crosses the fjord to Åsane in Bergen Municipality.
The famous Norwegian violinist and composer Ole Bull had his summer house here. In 1858, he bought a farm in Valestrand. The house was designed during 1865 by his youngest brother, architect Georg Andreas Bull. Ole Bull lived there for a time principally between tours. In 1872, he bought the island of Lysøya in what is now Bjørnafjorden Municipality, south of the city of Bergen which became the primary residence of his family and his newly constructed Villa Lysøen.