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Oslo: there are some unique "attractions" not available in
other parts.
SWe suggest to sail the fjord of Oslo with an appropriate
boat, better with departure in the afternoon so to enjoy the
shores and the inlets during the evening and in the lights
of the sunset. An evocative experience, an excellent memory
of the town, even if it's just a stage towards the Scandinavia.
www.oslopro.no/
www.oslo.kommune.no/default.asp?page=/English
About the "unique attractions", there are four of them not
to lose: the polar ships Gjoia and Fram (Framhuset),
the museum Kon-tiki, the most attractive and entire
Viking ships, Gol the wooden church situated inside
of the Folk museum (Norsk Folkemuseum).
These places are easily reachable taking a small line boat
(low cost if compared to the highs cost of the public services
of the Norway) that connects different points of the port
of Oslo and, particularly, that reaches the peninsula of Bygdoy
where are situated all of the four places of our interest.
For a lover of the polar explorations, there isn't other
occasion to enter, to smell, to touch, to observe the Fram,
the ship planned by Nansen for his shipping to the North Pole,
with shell keel, so to have the ship transported by the drift
and not to to be ground from the pack (see deepening). The
Ship was used later by Amundsen in his historical shipping
to the South Pole in 1912. The Fram is open to the visit,
you can enter, going down, climb, observe... without no face
scrubs or indicate the road.
Here, as like as the Vasa Museet of Stockholm, the building
was built to better exploit the visit to the ship and to the
different plans that describe the polar explorations in the
centuries.
Outside the building there is a small boat that nothing says
to the most of people but, it's the one that allowed Amundsen
to discover or, better, to sail the Passage to North West
from the Atlantic to the Pacific Ocean: the Gjoia!
Approfondimenti: www.fram.museum.no/
Go inside, discover Kon-tiki and the interesting character
of Thor Heyerdahl: he was an anthropologist and sociologist
that retraced the ancient oceanic crossings carried out aside
of the Incas, with the sail slab Kon-tiki, with witch, in
1947, he went through the Pacific Ocean from the Peru to the
Indonesia.
In 1970, always with the sail slab, he went through the Atlantic
Ocean. Thor Heyerdhal was a great character that helped us
to discover and to respect the different populations of the
world, in the real Norwegian style: without large uproar or
gaudy initiatives, but scientifically correct and deepened.
Deepening: www.museumsnett.no/kon-tiki/
L'ambasciata Norvegese a Roma dedica un sito escludivamente
a lui e alle sue iniziative. Da visitare e da leggere attentamente:
www.rome.mfa.no/cgi-bin/wbch3.exe?d=6478&p=4187
Only here it is possible to see, to observe, to smell real
and entire Viking ships in their simplicity and majesty.
Ships as Osberg and Gokstad, recovered to the end of the
past century and excellently positioned as to be able to see
them from the low side, from the sides and from the high one.
Who was interested in the argument , passing the Denmark,
can go to visit the Viking naval Museum of Roskilde.
Gol Stavkyrkje is a church entirely built in wood in the
XI century, perfectly preserved!
All of us know as the wood constructions are the most delicate,
more exhibited to the risk of fire and therefore less visible
to our days. And yet, you should not be surprised if in Norway
there still are a lot of wooden churches and some of them
are still open to the religion.
The church of Gol was originally rebuilt in the ethnographic
open museum, in 1884 thank to the King Oscar II, and it is
possible to admire it in its majesty inside of a park where
houses, places, workshops have been restored in original to
allow visitors to learn the story and the customs of the Norwegian
people.
Deepeninig: www.scandinavianheritage.org/church.htm
In Norway still exist a lot of wooden churches, species in
the south of the country.
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