Lysøen
Island estate with a violinist's onion-domed wooden villa, carved music hall and pine-forest paths.
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This guide to Lysøen, Ole Bull's island south of Bergen, follows the autumn of eighteen seventy-two, when Norway's most famous violinist bought an old farm island and set a building crew a task for the coming winter. It looks at the people who turned his sketches into brick and carved timber, from Bergen's building inspector to the carpenters and carvers. Best heard on the path in front of the villa, where you can see the ground floor and the storey above it.
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