Aker Brygge
Former shipyard turned waterfront of restaurants, shops and ferries, with preserved workshop halls.
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This guide to Aker Brygge in Oslo turns on the German occupation of Norway, when the waterfront under your feet was Akers mekaniske Verksted, once the country's largest shipyard, repairing ships for the occupiers. You'll meet Ragnar Sollie, known as Pelle, and the shipwrights he trained, and hear how Max Manus fared here first. Best heard on the promenade facing the old workshop halls.
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