Olaf Ryes plass
Leafy nineteenth-century square with a fountain and a bronze bust, ringed by old tenements and cafés.
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This guide to Olaf Ryes plass in Oslo's Grünerløkka district is about the bronze man at its centre, the priest Eilert Sundt, and the working people he made it his job to study. It moves between his door-to-door questioning of labourers in eighteen-fifties Christiania and the factory tenements that rose around this park a generation later. Best heard standing by the bust, facing the old apartment blocks.
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