Trondheim
From Imakoopedia
Trondheim, or Nidaros, is an old city in the center of Norway. A university dominates the town; its roughly 20.000 students add to Trondheims 150.000 inhabitants and the resulting economy fuels many local businesses.
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Understand
Trondheim was - contrary to common belief - not so much a center for vikings but the religious center of northern Europe in the Middle Ages and a vital hub for North-Atlantic trade, thus giving the town plentiful of characteristic mansions and harbour houses. The inhabitants like to call their town the historical, the religious and the technology capital of Norway.
The city celebrated its 1000-years anniversary as an official city in 1997. For centuries Trondheim was the northernmost trading city in European civilisation, giving it a special "edge-of-the-world" feeling.
Its status as a mercantile town also resulted in a more open-hearted, international culture than many other Scandinavian cities at the time.
Get in
By plane
Trondheim Airport serves international and national flights.
By train
You can take the regional trains from Oslo.
By car
By bus
By boat
Get around
See
- Stay close to the river if you want to see the real city. The sunsets can be magnificent, especially in summer, and the city is so far north that the first hints of arctic blue sky is seen. Summer days seem to last forever, although for a real midnight sun, you have to travel further north.
- Nidarosdomen The only cathedral in Scandinavia, (depending on definition)
- Archbishop's Palace
- Wooden mansions downtown (esp. "Stiftsgaarden", the King's local residence)
- The ancient fortress island Munkholmen,
- Wooden harbour buildings
- Bakklandet, the neighborhoods with small cafes and the outdoors bike elevator "Trampe",
- The TV-tower with a rotating top restaurant
- The museum of musical instruments ("Ringve")
Do
- At the heart of the city is the river, try a river cruise.
- Take the train to Hell Station and get a photo of yourself.
- Every year in the end of July and the beginning of August, you can visit the St. Olav Festival. The festival is a celebration of Olav Haraldsson, who attempted to christianise Norway. The festivals programme consists of both religious contributions, like masses for pilgrimages in the Nidaros cathedral and cultural festivities like concerts, Middle-Age-plays, lectures, exhibitions and many other activities.
Learn
Work
Buy
Eat
Nightlife is good, and centered on both sides of the end of the river, close to the music hall and the harbour shopping area.
Budget
Mid-range
Splurge
Drink
Sleep
Budget
The Trondheim InterRail Centre is a student society near the university that functions as a youth hostel in the summer. Price NOK 110 per person per night including breakfast. There's also free internet and they serve warm meals for NOK 45.
Mid-range
Splurge
Contact
Stay safe
Cope
Get out
Take the train to Bodø to go to the Lofoten islands.
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