Bergenhus Fortress
Harbourside royal fortress with a thirteenth-century stone banqueting hall and a Renaissance tower.
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About this audio guide
This guide to Bergenhus Fortress in Bergen stands you before Haakon's Hall, the stone banqueting hall King Håkon Håkonsson raised in the thirteenth century. It follows the painter Gerhard Munthe, a devotee of Norse legend and folk art, and the years he spent turning the old royal room into something nobody in Norway had seen. Best heard in the courtyard facing the hall's tall gable.
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