Håkonshallen - Bymuseet i Bergen
Thirteenth-century royal stone banquet hall, still used for royal dinners and festival concerts.
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This guide to Håkon's Hall in Bergen begins in September 1261, as King Håkon Håkonsson prepares a royal wedding and coronation for two thousand guests in a stone hall barely finished. It follows the room through medieval royal marriages, a wartime harbour blast in 1944, and the long rebuilding that followed. Stand near the south gable to spot the high doorway where feast guests once entered.
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