Nygårdsparken
English-style landscape park with ponds, iron bridges and exotic trees, revived after years of neglect.
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This guide to Nygårdsparken in Bergen follows the people whose job was this park, from the Danish gardener who won the contest to lay it out in the eighteen eighties to the parks crews, police and outreach workers who later walked the same paths. It starts with a heroin user's blunt words to a reporter in twenty thirteen. Best heard standing by the water, near one of the iron bridges.
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