Tøyen
Leafy east-side district around a botanical garden, natural history museums and an old timber manor.
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This guide to Tøyen in Oslo digs beneath the botanical garden and the old timber manor to the people who owned these fields for centuries: the Benedictine nuns of Nonneseter, a convent dedicated to the Virgin Mary. It follows what an old Norse farm name reveals about the land, an abbess remembered mainly for her business deals, and what the Reformation meant for women who had taken vows. Best heard on the slope near Tøyen Manor, looking out over the garden.
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