Oscarshall
Neo-Gothic royal summer palace on a fjord-side hill, with painted interiors and a restored garden.
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This guide to Oscarshall in Oslo follows a quarrel at the royal court around the year eighteen fifty, between a young Danish architect and the baron who ran the Norwegian court. It is set around the private pleasure house King Oscar the First and Queen Josephine built with their own money, and a budget that would not stay put. Best heard in the garden, looking up at the tower.
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