The Royal Palace
Neoclassical royal residence atop a hill, with a columned balcony overlooking the main avenue.
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This guide to the Royal Palace in Oslo starts beneath the altar of its chapel, with a stone King Charles John laid on the first of October, eighteen twenty-five, on a hill he chose himself. It follows his unlikely Danish-born architect, a parliament that controlled the purse, and a building site that ran into trouble almost at once. Stand in front of the main facade, where the story is still written in the walls.
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