Bygdøy
Leafy fjord peninsula of royal farmland, forest trails, beaches, villas and major museums.
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This guide to Bygdøy in Oslo follows the money behind the peninsula's fields, forest and villas, starting in eighteen thirty-seven, when a young and cash-strapped Norway had a royal farm to sell and a king ready to buy. It reaches back to Cistercian monks, a fortress that needed feeding, and the rich Christiania families who bought their way onto the shore. Best heard somewhere you can see both open farmland and the private gardens beyond it.
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