Sandviken
Historic waterfront district of timber sea warehouses, former mills and merchant summer houses.
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About this audio guide
This guide to Sandviken in Bergen follows Hannibal Sehested, the seventeenth-century governor of Norway and royal son-in-law who once owned this bay outright. It reaches back to a feudal land swap of fifteen sixty-one and into the rivalry between Sehested and the lord treasurer Corfitz Ulfeldt, as a new king starts asking about the governor's books. Best heard beside the old wooden sea warehouses along the shore.
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