Bergen Cathedral
Stone medieval church, rebuilt after many fires, with a naval cannonball lodged in its tower wall.
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This guide to Bergen Cathedral in Norway turns on a summer's day in sixteen sixty-five, when an English squadron came after a Dutch fleet sheltering in the harbour below, holds packed with East Indies spices and silk. It touches a neutral kingdom caught in someone else's war, a garrison deciding whose side it was on, and weather that had opinions of its own. Stand where you can see the tower at the west end.
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