Christiania Torv
Renaissance market square with a bronze pointing-hand fountain, at the heart of a 1624 street grid.
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This guide to Christiania Torv in Oslo starts in sixteen twenty-four, with King Christian the Fourth deciding where a burned city should begin again. It follows the square as the new town's everyday meeting place, with market days, a shared water post and a pillory standing among the stalls. Along the way it turns to one corner of the square and the very different buildings that have occupied it. Best heard beside the fountain in the middle.
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