Youngstorget
Historic market square ringed by party and union headquarters, with a restored fountain and stalls.
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About this audio guide
This audio guide to Youngstorget in Oslo is about a name: the one the city officially gave this square in eighteen fifty-two, and the one its people kept using instead. You'll meet Jørgen Young, a shop assistant who became the richest man in town, and walk through a century of cattle sales, vegetable stalls and beer halls. Best heard by the fountain, facing the Art Deco Folketeater building.
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