Stortorvet
Historic market square with a bronze statue of its founding king beside the cathedral steps.
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About this audio guide
This audio guide to Stortorvet in Oslo is about light: the winter of 1848, when a Scottish entrepreneur named James Malam set out to replace the square's dim oil lamps with something new. It follows coal, iron pipes and two German plumbers into Norway's first gasworks, in a city whose water still ran through wood. Best heard near the bronze king at the centre of the square.
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