Sola Beach: Fine art at the Atlantikwall

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When you have a trip to Stavanger, the famous oil capital of Norway, you will see one of the great wonders of the world. The city, who has only 142.000 inhabitands, has more street art masterpieces the – probably – every other cities in the world. [I have written about it a few days ago](https://travelfeed.io/@koenau/stavanger-the-world-capital-of-urban-art), but at this time I only have showed you the well known wallpaints and figures from the heart of the city.

Modern art on a historic bunker

The most better part of the open air gallery is – that’s every time true – the not so famous part outside of the tourist blocks. Here, where the "Kannik fotgjengerundergang street art" tour don't stopped by with her busloads of visitors you will find a strange and bizarre place named Sola Beach.

Playing in the sand of time

It’s a sandy beach along the bay of Solavika near the airport of Stavanger. Here is a not as big harbor, but the German occupation command while the second world war decided to make the region into a real fortress. This thing, made from bunkers, walls, tunnels and machine gun stations, runs in the north from the position Tungenes and in the south to the strongpoint MKB Vigdelin.

Red heart on grey concrete

They called it "Atlantikwall” and build dozens of concrete bunkers in the rocks along the sea. After 80 years the most of them are in best condition, you can go inside, you can climb to the roof. Or you prefer to look at another kind of art that you see all around the tunnels, fortresses and gun emplacements: Modern street art, made by complete unknown artists who paint when no one is at the beach.

A german girl?

They create impressive art in this way. There is a giant bloody red heart and a tiny little girl in a uniform jacket of the “Wehrmacht”, a fatty Master Propper and a smiling boy who chants “Recycle” over a great garbagcan. It's urbex and it is total today.

Recycle!

It’s the best thing you can make out of this crap from history, a living exhibition under a cloudy skandinavian sky right by the water. Don’t pass by this unknown attraction if you in Rogaland – you will have a beach for yourself, some of Hitlers last concrete castles and the modern art of Norwegians best talents.

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Few more pics for you:

Is art useless?

The colors of Sola Beach

A part of the Atlantikwall

Broken heart of art

360°

On the beach (Neil Young)

The door to the earth

Thank god it never happened

Looks like a mouse

A few bunkers more

A wall to paint the next piece

Open doors down under


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