The Ones On The Postcards
Landmarks
TODO — what landmarks in Oslo are actually worth the time.
5 placesBjørvika
The Opera House
A building you are meant to walk on. The roof is a public square that rises out of the fjord, and it costs nothing.
Pipervika
Akershus Fortress
Seven hundred years of fortification on a headland over the fjord, never taken by an enemy, and free to walk into.
Pipervika
Oslo City Hall
Two brown brick towers that Oslo has never entirely forgiven, and the room where the Nobel Peace Prize is awarded.
Above the City
Holmenkollen
A ski jump at the end of a metro line, with the world's oldest ski museum inside the hill under it.
Karl Johans gate
The Royal Palace
No fence, no gates, and a park you can walk through — which tells you most of what you need to know about Norway.