Editing Harstad Municipality (section)

==Institutions and culture==
[[File:Harstad stadion.jpg|thumb|right|Harstad Stadium; June 2007]]
The city hosts the annual week-long ''[[Festival of North Norway]]'' in June.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Festspillene i Nord-Norge |url=http://www.festspillnn.no/default.asp?cmd=600 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20041013073215/http://www.festspillnn.no/default.asp?cmd=600 |archive-date=13 October 2004}}</ref> It is also the home of the Arctic Moving Image and Film Festival, held in October each year.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Arctic Moving Image and Film Festival |url=http://www.amiff.no/home?cmd=600}}</ref>

[[Harstad University College]], with approximately 1,100 students,<ref>{{Cite web |title=Harstad University College |url=http://www.hih.no/Internasjonale_programmer/infoenglish/default.asp}}</ref> has a thriving foreign exchange program with students from all over the world. The hospital in Harstad is part of the [[University Hospital of North Norway]].

The most successful local [[Association football|football]] team is [[Harstad Idrettslag]] (a.k.a. HIL),<ref>{{Cite web |title=HIL |url=http://www.harstad-idrettslag.no |language=no}}</ref> and the most successful [[basketball]] team is the [[Harstad Vikings]].<ref>{{Cite web |title=Harstad Vikings |url=http://www.mjodberget.net |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180315071338/http://www.mjodberget.net/ |archive-date=15 March 2018 |access-date=10 March 2006 |language=no}}</ref>

Harstad is home port for the ''[[Anna Rogde (schooner)|Anna Rogde]]'', the world's oldest sailing [[schooner]], also known as ''the sailing queen of Norway''.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Anna Rogde |url=http://www.annarogde.no/default.asp?cmd=210 |language=no}}</ref>

[[Harstad Camping]] is a campsite located in the municipality.

===Churches===
The [[Church of Norway]] has five parishes ({{lang|no|sokn}}) within Harstad Municipality. It is part of the [[Trondenes prosti]] ([[deanery]]) in the [[Diocese of Nord-Hålogaland]].

{| class="wikitable" style="text-align:center"
|+ style="font-size:medium"|'''''Churches in Harstad'''''
!Parish ({{lang|no|sokn}})!!Church name!!Location of the church!!Year built
|-
|rowspan="2"|Bjarkøy og Sandsøy||[[Bjarkøy Church]]||[[Nergården]]||1766
|-
|[[Sandsøy Church]]||[[Sandsøya, Troms|Sandsøya]]||1888
|-
|rowspan="2"|Grytøy||[[Grøtavær Church]]||[[Grøtavær]]||1915
|-
|[[Lundenes Church]]||[[Lundenes]]||1974
|-
|Harstad||[[Harstad Church]]||[[Harstad (town)|Harstad]]||1958
|-
|Kanebogen||[[Kanebogen Church]]||[[Kanebogen]]||1999
|-
|rowspan="2"|Sandtorg||[[Gausvik Church]]||[[Gausvika]]||1979
|-
|[[Sandtorg Church]]||[[Sørvika]]||1932
|-
|rowspan="2"|Trondenes||[[Trondenes Church]]||[[Trondenes]]||15th century
|-
|[[Elgsnes Chapel]]||[[Elgsnes]]||1985
|}