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Destination Bergen, a city on Norway’s southwestern coast. Surrounded by mountains and fjords, including Sognefjord, the country’s longest and deepest.

To the northeast of Bergen rises Mount Fløyen. Also known as Fløyfjell, this 319-meter peak offers magnificent views of the city and the surrounding area. For the most dramatic vistas, time your visit for early morning or at dusk.

If walking is not your thing, you can take the Fløibanen, a fun 844-meter-long funicular railway that carries over a million passengers to the top every year. Once here, the views over Bergen are simply breathtaking.

Colorful Bryggen Hanseatic Wharf (Tyskebryggen) is one of Bergen's most popular tourist attractions. Chock full of restaurants, studios, workshops, and boutique shops, the charming narrow alleyways and old wooden merchant houses of this UNESCO World Heritage Site simply beg to be explored.

At the southeast end of the city's beautiful main harbor, Bergen's Market Square is always bustling. Its busy quays are where local fishermen land their catches each morning and, along with the 700-year old Fish Market (Torget), it's a fascinating spectacle for early risers.

This is also where the city's best restaurants purchase their seafood daily; be sure to make note of the catch of the day, so you can sample it at lunch and dinner.

Bergen is a proud European City of Culture, and the city has had a strong cultural identity ever since the merchants brought life to the harbor around Bryggen at the 1300s. Today Bergen is a cultural melting pot, with a wide range of concerts, international festivals and museums of all kinds. Culture plays an important role of everyday life in Bergen – an important expression of Bergen’s variety of life. Check out the What's on calender to find the events of your choice!

Bergen has fostered several world famous artist who have achieved worldwide fame, such as the composer Edvard Grieg and violinist Ole Bull. Grieg’s home at Troldhaugen and Ole Bulls summer paradise at Lysøen are both popular attractions today, where you can experience their homes preserved just as they were built, and concerts to the scenery that once inspired the two world famous composers.

The Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra is one of the world’s oldest symphony orchestras, and the city has the country’s first national theatre. The comic writer Ludvig Holberg, Norway’s first major landscape painter Johan Christian Dahl are also world-renowned artist who have influenced the cultural history in Bergen. The city has carried its proud cultural heritage throughout history, and has become a city of great cultural venues.

You can find a whole range of museums and institutions in and around the centre of Bergen with exhibitions and performances throughout the year. Bergen is today known for its wide range of music, boasting innovative and trendy music and design scenes with a large variety of festivals. It has one of Norway’s best choirs, jazz musicians and operatic singers.

Several bands have emerged on Bergen’s music scene throughout the last decades, like Kygo, Ylvis, Kings of Convenience, Sissel Kyrkjebø, Kurt Nilsen and Sondre Lerche – to mention a few of them.

UNESCO City of Gastronomy:
To top all this, Bergen has in recent years become known as an international culinary city, and in 2015 Bergen earned the UNESCO title City of Gastronomy. Good food and drink is important to the people in Bergen and seafood is perhaps what Bergen is most known for. The local Fish Market is a popular tourist attraction and place sample the delecacies.

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