Haugesund - Haraldshaug

2km/1.25mi north of the town center of Haugesund is the Haraldshaug, said to be the burial mound of Harald Fairhair, whose naval victory at Stavanger in 872 is commemorated by a 17m/55ft high granite obelisk erected in 1872, the 29 blocks of stone in the monument representing the tribes which he united into a single nation.