Damsgårdsfjellet
Forested city peak with a rugged rock-hopping trail and wide views over the fjord and rooftops.
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This guide to Damsgårdsfjellet, one of Bergen's seven mountains, looks down on the estate that shares its name and on Joachim Christian Geelmuyden, the war commissioner and customs chief who built a rococo house there in the seventeen-seventies. It follows a garden where appetite and ornament met, and a neighbourhood whose Old Norse name is about fish. Best heard at the summit, facing the city fjord.
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