Skansen
Hillside quarter with a turreted wooden fire station and a shallow pond above the old town.
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This guide to Skansen in Bergen starts at the edge of Skansedammen, a pond so shallow it barely wets your ankles, and asks what it is doing there. It reaches back to an eighteen-eighties reservoir built for a city of wooden houses, and to the fire station raised beside it after the blaze of nineteen hundred and one. Stand at the water's edge with the old watchtower behind you.
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