| Page Views: 1,037 Last Visit to Ålesund: July, 2007 | Ålesund, a beautiful town with a dramatic history by Hildeal - last update: Aug 4, 2007 |
ålesund is a beautiful city with quite a dramatic history to tell. During a night in 1903, the whole town burned down. It was winter and thousands of people were homeless. luckily only one person died during the fire. The ironical thingswas that she was the nearest neighbour to the fire station and was already in safety but wanted to go bak to get some more of her belongings.
Many other Towns and countries were villing to help Ålesund to rebuild the town. The biggest help came from Germany. Keiser Wilhelm sent most of the supplies that were ment for some other countries to Ålesund.
During Two years the town was rebuild in the jugend stile. architects from Norway who most of them had their education from Germany and France participated in this process. the architecture is a mixture of all these ideas, and is quite interesting to look at
Ålesund & Sunnmøre is the perfect place to explore some of Norway's most famous natural and cultural attractions. Ålesund's beautiful Art Nouveau architecture is known far and wide. The myriad of turrets, spires and beautiful ornamentation that give the town its distinctive character are like something from a fairytale |
|  | seeing the town from the mountain Aksla You have to take the trip up here, and watch all the islands .
At the top of Ålesund's Town Mountain, Aksla, you'll be able to enjoy a fantastic view of the archipelago, Ålesund's town centre, and the majestic Sunnmøre Alps. Walk the 418 steps up from the Town Park, or go by car. |
|  | the jugend style Ålesund is famous for it's jugend style. After the town was burned down in 1904 architects from Norway who where educated from all over Europe had a mission to rebuild the Town. With so many different builders with so many ideas it had to lead to a very special result.
The town even has it own jugend style museum that takes you back to the big fire and you'll see how the town was rebuild |
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| Pros: | "a town for arts and culture" | | Cons: | "it's small" | | In A Nutshell: | "a small town with culture" |
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hej-ansson Tue Jul 28, 2009 13:49 UTC Great pages of Ålesund. Your photos are also great. HEJ :-) | y2ketan2007 Sat Aug 4, 2007 19:43 UTC Alesund is beautiful.Thanks for the information and the wonderful pictures. | hundwalder Fri May 26, 2006 03:10 UTC Very good tips and excellent photographs Hilde. Thanks for sharing. | whitecliff62 Sat Nov 19, 2005 19:23 UTC Great page Hilde, the sceenery looks spectacular and everything looks so fresh. |
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