Sognsvann
Forest lake and former city reservoir ringed by a 3.3 km trail, with bathing, skating and skiing.
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About this audio guide
This guide to Sognsvann, the lake at the end of the metro line north of Oslo, follows the money that ran through its water. It starts with a private partnership in the eighteen-fifties piping a brook down to the western districts of old Christiania, and the city that decided it wanted that tap for itself. Typhoid, typhus and chlorine all turn up along the way. Best heard on the shore by the southern end, looking out over the water.
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