Where to stay in Aure
Most beds in Aure gather in the centre by the water, where guest rooms and small hotels stand within a short walk of the quay, the shops and Aure kirke up the slope. The centre suits visitors who want the village and the shore on the doorstep. It is the natural base.
Along the coast road, toward the farms and the open sounds, rooms and self-catering houses sit handy for travellers exploring the islands and inlets by car. Beds there run quiet most of the year. Out toward Stemshaug kirke and the scattered parishes of the municipality, holiday houses and farm stays spread for those touring the north-eastern part of Møre og Romsdal.
Stock thins beyond the centre. Book ahead in the warm season, when the coast and the sounds draw travellers to this corner of western Norway (Vestlandet).
About Aure
What is Aure known for?
Aure is the centre of its municipality, set on the sheltered coast in the north-eastern part of Møre og Romsdal. Aure kirke marks the parish at the heart of the settlement, the listed church standing over the village by the water. The sea ties the place together.
Out across the parishes the older Stemshaug kirke serves the scattered farms, and the two churches and the waterfront together frame a small coastal town in this northern reach of western Norway (Vestlandet).
What are the main landmarks in Aure?
Aure kirke stands at the heart of the village. The listed parish church rises over the water and the quay, the fixed point of the small coastal settlement. Out across the parishes lies Stemshaug kirke.
The older listed church serves the scattered farms of the municipality, set among the holdings away from the centre. Two churches mark the reach of Aure in the north-eastern part of Møre og Romsdal.
What is the history of Aure?
Aure grew where a sheltered stretch of coast gave fishing and farming families a working harbour in the north-eastern part of Møre og Romsdal. The sea and the land together sustained the early settlement, the boats working the sounds and the farms holding the slopes above the water. Farms held the land.
Aure kirke rose to serve the parish by the water, while the older Stemshaug kirke stood among the scattered holdings of the coast in western Norway (Vestlandet). The coast kept its slow trades through the centuries. Fishing, farming and the gathering of shops and services carried Aure on, and the village grew into the centre of its municipality.
The listed churches of Aure kirke and Stemshaug kirke still mark the old parishes, and the small town settled into its role as the meeting point for the farms and the scattered coastal settlements of the north-eastern part of Møre og Romsdal.
Where is Aure?
Aure lies on a sheltered stretch of coast in the north-eastern part of Møre og Romsdal, in western Norway (Vestlandet). The village gathers around the harbour, the houses rising from the water toward Aure kirke and the slopes behind, with the sounds and inlets running out among the islands. Sea and hill frame the place.
The municipality reaches across the coast and the scattered parishes, taking in the farms and the older church of Stemshaug kirke beyond the built-up edge of the small town.
What is the climate of Aure?
Aure has the wet, mild maritime climate of the northern coast of Vestlandet. Winters stay cool and grey rather than harsh, the sheltered sounds holding hard frost and lasting snow back from the low ground by the harbour through much of the season. Summers run cool and damp.
The water of the coast tempers the warmth and feeds the wind under the long northern daylight, while rain off the sea reaches the slopes around Aure kirke in this north-eastern part of Møre og Romsdal in every month.
How do you get to Aure?
Aure is reached by road and ferry along the coast. Buses and cars run in on the routes that thread the sounds and islands of the north-eastern part of Møre og Romsdal, and the centre lies a short walk from the quay and Aure kirke. Many cross by water.
Ferries link the coast across the open sounds toward the village, while the regional airports of Møre og Romsdal handle the longer journeys of travellers reaching this corner of western Norway (Vestlandet) from afar.