Birkelunden Public Park
Block-sized park of birches, lawns and a music pavilion, framed by protected brick tenements.
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About this audio guide
This guide to Birkelunden in Oslo's Grünerløkka district is about the shape of the ground beneath you: a rectangle of grass and trees ringed by nineteenth-century brick. It follows Thorvald Meyer, the merchant and cavalry officer who bought this nearly empty land in the eighteen sixties, and the working-class neighbourhood that rose around his lots. Best heard from the middle of the park, where you can turn and take in all four streets.
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