The Heddal stave church – stavkirke – is Norway’s largest remaining building of its kind. It is a woodwork masterpiece, with a history that stretches back more than 800 years.
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Hytte | the ancestral call from the mountain cabin | Norway
The traditional Norwegians are drawn to their cabins, whether it be in the mountains, in the forest, or by the sea. Some would say that they are a people obsessed.
Norwegian railway history | the pioneer era 1851-1868 | Norway
With the birth of the new Norwegian national state in 1814, came big ideas. And one of them was to establish better transportation systems.
Wooden buildings one thousand years old | Norway
The oldest wooden buildings in Norway are almost 1000 years old – like Urnes stave church in Luster. How come these buildings do not rot away and disappear?