Skostredet
Medieval shoemakers' lane of wooden houses, now lined with cafés, bars and restaurants.
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About this audio guide
This audio guide to Skostredet in Bergen starts with a scrap of old leather in the ground and follows it back to the German cobblers who worked this lane for centuries. It touches their stalls and wharves, the guild behind them, and a day in the early fifteen hundreds when a Danish duke wanted to take the short way across town. Best heard standing midway along the lane, looking down its length.
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