Vettakollen
Forested former beacon hill with a sweeping lookout over the city, fjord and old mine shafts.
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This guide to Vettakollen in Oslo looks past the view and into the hill itself, from the beacon that gave it its name to the iron mines a sixteenth-century chancellor opened on its slopes. It follows English managers, a later landowner and a disputed copper works that historians still argue over. Best heard at the summit, then on the eastern path down toward Båntjern pond.
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