Torgallmenningen
Pedestrian main square born as a firebreak, framed by a bronze sailors' monument and a meeting stone.
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This guide to Torgallmenningen, the main square of Bergen, starts with your hand on a nine-metre slab of Brazilian sodalite that locals simply call the Blue Stone. It follows the unplanned habits a whole city has built around one piece of public art, from everyday meetings to the days when something goes wrong. Along the way it reaches back to the fire of fifteen eighty-two that left this ground open. Start at the stone beside Hotel Norge.
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