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Explore Borre
Borre in Horten (Vestfold) is located in Norway about 38 mi (or 61 km) south of Oslo, the country's capital.
Local time in Borre is now 11:26 AM (Thursday). The local timezone is named Europe / Oslo with an UTC offset of 2 hours. We know of 10 airports in the wider vicinity of Borre, of which 3 are larger airports. The closest airport in Norway is Moss Airport, Rygge in a distance of 12 mi (or 19 km), East. Besides the airports, there are other travel options available (check left side).
There is one Unesco world heritage site nearby. The closest heritage site is Rock Carvings in Tanum in Sweden at a distance of 57 mi (or 91 km). We found 4 points of interest in the vicinity of this place. If you need a place to sleep, we compiled a list of available hotels close to the map centre further down the page.
Depending on your travel schedule, you might want to pay a visit to some of the following locations: Horten, Tonsberg, Borgheim, Holmestrand and Tofte. To further explore this place, just scroll down and browse the available info.
Local weather forecast
Todays Local Weather Conditions & Forecast: 15°C / 59 °F
Morning Temperature | 10°C / 50 °F |
Evening Temperature | 16°C / 60 °F |
Night Temperature | 12°C / 54 °F |
Chance of rainfall | 0% |
Air Humidity | 50% |
Air Pressure | 1020 hPa |
Wind Speed | Moderate breeze with 9 km/h (6 mph) from South |
Cloud Conditions | Broken clouds, covering 84% of sky |
General Conditions | Broken clouds |
Friday, 3rd of May 2024
15°C (59 °F)
12°C (54 °F)
Overcast clouds, gentle breeze.
Saturday, 4th of May 2024
15°C (59 °F)
10°C (51 °F)
Broken clouds, light breeze.
Sunday, 5th of May 2024
13°C (56 °F)
10°C (50 °F)
Light rain, gentle breeze, overcast clouds.
Hotels and Places to Stay
THON HOTEL ASGARDSTRAND
BEST WESTERN HORTEN HOTELL
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Videos from this area
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Horten damekor
En film om og med Horten damekor. En fin samling sangglade damer som møtes til øvelse en gang i uka, og ellers noen kortreff og andre oppdrag gjennom året, og har det trivelig sammen. Koret...
Horten 2014 Audio Aktøren Butikk i storgata, Del 1
Audiophile.no besøker Audio Aktøren sin butikk i Storgata i Horten i en ledig kveldsøkt etter bransjemiddagen. Del 1 foregår oppe i butikken sitt hovedlokale.
17 Mai 2009 - Borgertoget i Horten [Del 1/3]
This video consists of three parts: 1: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4JTTTOETPX0&fmt=22 2: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wMjxtOI6EPs&fmt=22 3: ...
17 Mai 2009 - Borgertoget i Horten [Del 2/3]
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Attractions and noteworthy things
Distances are based on the centre of the city/town and sightseeing location. This list contains brief abstracts about monuments, holiday activities, national parcs, museums, organisations and more from the area as well as interesting facts about the region itself. Where available, you'll find the corresponding homepage. Otherwise the related wikipedia article.
Åsgårdstrand
Åsgårdstrand is a town in Vestfold, Norway. It is also the name of a former independent municipality and a center of trade. The town is situated 10 km south of Horten, 10 km north of Tønsberg and 100 km south of Oslo by the west coast of the Oslofjord. From 2007, the town has had the classification of a Tourist Town, which gives the shop owners in the oldest part, closest to the sea, the right to keep open all days of the week.
Borre mound cemetery
Borre mound cemetery forms part of the Borre National Park in Horten, Vestfold, Norway. The park covers 45 acres (182,000 m²) and its collection of burial mounds is exceptional in Scandinavia. Today, seven large mounds and one cairn can be seen. At least two mounds and one cairn have been destroyed in modern times. There are also 25 smaller cairns and the cemetery may have been larger. Some of the monuments are over 45m in diameter and up to 6m high.
Skoppum
Skoppum is a village in the municipality of Horten, Norway. Its population (2005) is 1,633. It has a railway station on Vestfoldbanen. This station is the station nearest Horten.
Borre, Norway
Borre is a village in the municipality of Horten, Vestfold county, Norway. The village of Borre had provided the name of the former Borre municipality .
Borre Golfbane
Borre Golfbane was opened with nine holes in 1990 and 18 holes the following year. In 2005 the course opened nine new holes, which were added to the first nine along lake Borrevannet. Borre Golfbane has hosted two Challenge Tour events: the first professional golf tournament on Norwegian soil, the Karsten Ping Norwegian Challenge in 1994, sponsored by Karsten Solheim, and in 1998, the Netcom Norwegian Open. The course is located in Norway near the small town Horten by the Oslofjord.
Vestfold University College
Vestfold University College (Norwegian: Høgskolen i Vestfold, abbreviated as HiVe) is a university college, a Norwegian state institution of higher education, in the county of Vestfold, Norway. The university college's campuses were formerly located in Borre and Eik. From 2010 the whole university college was colocated at Campus Bakkenteigen in Horten. It was established August 1, 1994 by the merger of three previous university colleges, and has approximately 4000 students and 450 employees.
Horten Station
Horten Station is a former railway station in Horten, Norway, that was the terminus of the Horten Line, a branch of the Vestfold Line.