The ancient city of Norway Bergen annual showers stop

If you are familiar with Norway, must know that the city of Bergen, it is one of the nine cultural city of europe. Because of the special environment and geographical position, it often rains here. Here is a popular story: one year, Bergen continuous rain for 299 days, when people are celebrating when it rains 300 days in a row, suddenly sunny. They had to change the plan, celebrate finally sunny.

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The city of rain

Big city in northern Europe gives a heavy feeling, there are not very high, but always large and square building, or some huge palace, city hall. Also the streams of people busily coming and going around the crowd, do not feel the medieval European romantic, artistic atmosphere. And those town, city, can attract visitors to follow in a continuous line, the old aristocratic.

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Norway's capital Bergen is a city like this, many buildings in the city still hundreds of years ago. In 1070, the invincible king Olaf Hill (OlavKyrre) sailing along the west coast of Norway, through this together in seven peaks surrounded by the port, he named it the "Bergen" -- the Norway word for "mountain pasture", also known as the "city of the seven hills".

From 12 to thirteenth Century, here is the capital of Norway, the political, economic, cultural, and the kingdom of Norway the first coronation ceremony held in place. In the whole peninsula's largest port and trade center. The Hanseatic League was founded famous here, before the nineteenth Century Oslo rise, has been one of the most important Norway city.

Bergen is known to often rains, basically is a rainy city, which deepened the deep sense of nostalgia. The impact of the Atlantic gulf stream, Bergen Norway is one of the most warm city, year-round ice-free port, the annual average temperature of 7.7 ��, annual rainfall of 2250 mm. Because of rain, rain time, annual rainfall days in 201 days or more, Bergen is known as the "umbrella of the city". Only a short while ago, there will be "umbrella sale machine" here on the street, but the sale machine did not succeed. Have a joke in Bergen, a tourist asks when a local boy will stop the rain, the boy answered "don't know, I was only 12 years old".

City of the seven hills

Bergen is a city built in the hills around the city, mountains and fjords, City mountain facing the sea, the whole in order to give people a sense of order and symmetry. To extend outward by is located in the name of odd "flutter in the fjord" coastal and port, and then extends too steep, bridge and link the islands and cape.

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Hill has cable connection, the passenger a funicular shuttling among the mountains. A bird's eye view of the Fjord, beach, forest, lake, Shanqingshuixiu, picturesque. Take a cable car is the best way to experience the natural environment, need 8 minutes only, can by the downtown area to a height of 300 meters or more, arrived at in the city at the top of the rich paradise. But when you down, and there seems to be a need to fell to the city. However, rich Park tram, the first electric tram in the Scandinavia Peninsula, since 1918 has been relatively safe driving.

Have a lovely old building on the top of the mountain, with rich paradise restaurant. The building was built in 1925, is the 8 sign step size starting point, a step the longest diameter of only about 4 kilometers long, but this does not mean that the step size is not steep slopes and wilderness through the forest.

In the rich Paradise Restaurant corridor, you can leisurely drinking a cup of coffee or lunch, but also the great scenery to enjoy the hundreds of islands with the sea, many islands have hatel (wooden hut), some boats parked beside floating Zhanqiao, this is Norway people's ideal summer beauty.

The mountains and hills around the city of Damm, Fang Shan, Love, Vickers, Sander hill, it to Randy Mannion, Bula Mannion and the 7 mountain a about 600 meters the highest Uhl ray, a cable car like a giant spider, slowly and carefully along the cableway to climb.