The Gateway to the Fjords of Norway: Bergen
Bergen is one of the most popular cities in Norway when it comes to tourist attractions. In the year 2011 they have recorded over 800,000 tourists. Bergen is a great and perfect city to explore with friends and family, with its old alleyways and streets where people have lived for centuries, it will instantly make you feel like you are in a fairy-tale book because of the ambience and architectural design of city. You will also experience and appreciate the beauty of wooden houses, cobbled streets with the stone steps and beautiful and colorful flowers everywhere. You can also find amazing restaurants, famous artists' studios that showcase their art, craftsmen’s workshops, small boutiques good for
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Climate
Bergen’s climate is a temperate oceanic climate where are the areas of the city at some higher area are largely oceanic sub-polar, these part of the country will experience cool winters and mild summers all throughout the year, while the Gulf Stream in the city will provide the warmest winters of all cities in the Nordic countries including Bergen. This city experiences abundant rainfall in all seasons because of the city is surrounded by mountains that cause the moist of North Atlantic air that undergo orographic lift that produces the abundant of rainfall in the city.
Transportation
Bergen Airport Flesland is the major airport in the city. It is located in Flesland, 18 kilometers away from the center of the city. This airport serves as the hub of the major and largest air carriers in the country like Scandinavian Airlines, Norwegian Air Shuttle and Widerøe. There are direct flights to 20 domestic and 53 international destinations all over the
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It operates an extensive city bus network in Bergen and to their neighboring municipalities, including the one route which operates as a trolleybus. The trolleybus system in Bergen is the only one that still in operation in Norway and one of two trolleybus systems in Scandinavia.
What to See
Bryggens Museum
This is one of the oldest museums in Bergen. It showcases the example of the medieval urban area of Norway. It is also designated and chosen as one of the World Heritage site by the UNESCO. It allows you to experience the life in the medieval Bergen time where the oldest buildings are from the 12th century.
The museum will in 2015 stage an exhibition on Bryggen’s runes from the Middle Ages as well as an exhibition featuring the paper artist Karen Bit Vejle.
The Hanseatic Museum
The Hanseatic Museum is located in the heart of Bergen. It shows how the German merchants lived and worked from the years 1350 to 1750 coming from the Hanseatic League, where they traded stockfish and grains as a
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