The Beech forest
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In the Wisting novel "Felicia disappeared", a group of nursery school children find a human eye on the playground behind the restaurant "Bøkekroa", in the middle of the beech forest. There has probably never been much crime committed in these woods, but it is not to be denied that on a dark autumn evening, this place can easily awaken scary fantasies. "Bøkeskogen" is the country's first public free area, donated by landowner Treschow to the people of Larvik in 1884. Here you will find the world's northernmost occurrence of Beech, which you mainly only find in Central Europe. From the fjord, the forest appears as a large green roof over the city. When you stand in the middle of the forest, you will understand why "Bøkeskogen" has been given poetic nicknames such as "pillar hall" and "natural cathedral". The beech tree can be 48 meters high, 3 meters around the trunk and 400 years old. In the Viking era, the beech tree was used, among other things, for ornaments on Viking ships.