Vossevangen
Lakeside mountain town centre where a river of giant salmon meets a long-feared floodwater.
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This guide to Vossevangen, the heart of Voss near Bergen, is about the lake at the edge of town and the river Vosso that runs through it. It follows a century-long struggle between the townspeople and their floodwater, from a drowned vicarage in nineteen eighteen to the dynamite of the early nineteen nineties, and the giant Atlantic salmon that shared the same water. Best heard facing Vangsvatnet, with the old main street at your back.
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