Oslo, Norway

Oslo, Norway

If that didn't look right, here is the building from another angle which shows that it id different just like his art.

Next door is the Opera House and along one side are windows into the backstage areas where they create the costumes, items for the stage the back drops.

The outside of the building.

Then it was a walk along the front to the Askerhus Fortress. I approached through the newer buildings so it is more brick and less defensive walls. Some barracks which now house the Museum with the entrance flanked by two tanks.

Another building protected by a cannon.

A row of old cannons.

The eternal flame.

An elegant building.

The commanders residence.

One of the old towers.

An entrance across a moat to the old section of the fortress.

The sloping thick walls.

The entrance into the fortress over the bridge and its gate protected by a drawbridge.

An internal gate behind the first gate.

Some old replica cannons on top of the battlements. which also show how thick the walls were.

A walled extension with loopholes for muskets to fire on attackers.

A third internal gate with loopholes to the left.

A fourth gate.

The gate facing the main town.

An underground bunker now use as a car park for staff.

The long light coloured concrete building in the distance is the National Museum.

AN interesting Art Deco building.

The historical home of Parliament.

The Norwegian Order of Freemasons

Another beautiful building overlooking the same Wassels Place and the two previous two buildings.

Another beautiful building.

The western entrance to the cathedral.

The much plainer northern entrance.

An arcade of shops at the side of the cathedral, built to provide an income for the cathedral facing west.

The main arcade entrance facing north.

The curved facade as it curls around the eastern facade.

The congregational area.

A detail of one of the columns.

The decoration of the roof at the apse of the church, and very modern for its time as the building was completed in 1699.

The pulpit, and diagonally opposite it is...

...the monarch's private box.

The massive organ at the west end of the cathedral and some painted detail of the roof above the congregation and the saints looking down on them.

A detail of the roof decoration at the north transept.

The altar.

And I discovered how they maintain the overhead wires for the trams by a lorry with an extendable arm that runs along the rails.

And the tents were all set up for the October Fest ready for the beer festival but unluckily for me, it open in a couple of days. The houses appearing to be behind are in fact painted on to the apex of the canvas tent.