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   Nidaros Cathedral

   A Gothic cathedral built over the burial place of King Olav II, killed in 1030 and canonised the following year, and the northernmost medieval cathedral in the world. It was the goal of the St Olav pilgrim route and where Norwegian kings are still consecrated.

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   Haltdalen Stave Church

   A stave church of the 1170s from the village of Haltdalen, moved to the Sverresborg open-air museum in Trondheim. It is the only surviving single-nave stave church of the East Scandinavian type, and among the oldest wooden buildings in Norway.

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   Tyholttårnet

   A 124-metre radio tower of 1985 with an observation deck, and the tallest structure in Trondheim. The restaurant at seventy-four metres rotates once an hour, giving the whole city, the fjord and the hills in a single meal.

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   Stiftsgården

   The royal residence in Trondheim, on Munkegata, with 140 rooms in 4,000 square metres — one of the largest wooden buildings in northern Europe. Built in the 1770s for a noblewoman, it was bought for the crown in 1800 and is used by the royal family each summer.

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   Trondheim Synagogue

   A synagogue at Arkitekt Christies gate, consecrated on 13 October 1925 in a converted railway station building and among the northernmost synagogues in the world. The congregation dates from 1892; a museum upstairs covers the Norwegian Jews deported in 1942.

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   Ringve Museum

   Norway's national museum of music and instruments, in a manor house east of the centre with about two thousand instruments from around the world. Guides play them during the tour, which is what distinguishes it, and the botanical garden outside belongs to the university.

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   Kristiansten Fortress

   A fortress finished in 1685 on the hill east of Trondheim, built after the fire of 1681 to cover the city's landward side. It stopped a Swedish attack in 1718; the Germans executed resistance members here in 1942, and a memorial marks the spot.

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   NTNU University Museum

   The university museum, one of seven in Norway, holding natural and cultural history collections and running the archaeology of central Norway. Its rooms in the wooden buildings at Kalvskinnet include the Bronze Age and Viking finds from the region.

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   St. Olav's Cathedral

   The Catholic cathedral of the Trondheim prelature, consecrated in 2016 on the foundations of Per Kartvedt's church of 1973. It serves a congregation drawn from across central Norway, a short walk from the medieval Nidaros Cathedral.

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    Tautra Abbey

    A Cistercian abbey founded in 1207 on the island of Tautra in the Trondheimsfjord, dissolved at the Reformation and left as substantial church ruins. A community of Cistercian nuns returned to the island in 1999 and built a new monastery beside the site.

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   Sverresborg

   A fort King Sverre Sigurdsson built above Nidaros during his war with Magnus Erlingsson in the 1180s, on the hill it is named after. Its foundations sit in the grounds of the Sverresborg open-air museum, which has around eighty relocated buildings.

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   Rockheim

   Norway's national museum of popular music, opened in 2010 in a converted grain silo on the harbour, with a cantilevered top floor lit as a screen. Visitors are given a wristband and play their way through Norwegian pop and rock from the 1950s on.

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   Lade

   A neighbourhood on a peninsula in Østbyen facing the Trondheimsfjord, whose Old Norse name marks it as a Viking-age landing and assembly place. Ringve and the shore path along Ladestien are its reason to go now.

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   Vår Frue Church

   A medieval stone parish church in the centre of Trondheim, first mentioned in 1207 and probably older, and the second oldest building in the city after the cathedral. It stays open all day as a café and shelter run with the city's homeless, which is unusual for a church here.

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   Archbishop's Palace, Trondheim

   The archbishop's palace immediately south of the cathedral, begun in the twelfth century and the oldest secular building in Scandinavia. It held the mint and the armoury; the west wing now shows the original cathedral sculptures and the crown regalia.

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   Gløshaugen

   The hilltop campus about 2 km southeast of the centre that holds most of the science and engineering faculties of the Norwegian University of Science and Technology. Built for the Norwegian Institute of Technology, founded in 1910, it passed to NTNU when the institutions merged in 1996.

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   Byåsen

   A large residential area on the slope southwest of the centre, rising to give views over the city and the fjord. Skistua and the Bymarka forest begin at the top of it, so cross-country skiing starts within the city bus network.

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   Kalvskinnet

   A quarter southwest of the centre along the Nidelva, given over to university buildings, public offices and the science museum. The name is first recorded in 1556, but the ground is older: the Battle of Kalvskinnet was fought here in 1179, when King Sverre defeated and killed Erling Skakke.

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   Trondheim art museum

   The city art museum, holding the third largest public art collection in Norway with an emphasis on work since 1850. Munch prints and Nordic painting are its strengths, and it stands between the cathedral and the archbishop's palace.

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    Byneset Church

    A medieval stone church at Byneset west of Trondheim, built around 1180 in the Romanesque manner and still the parish church. Its interior keeps a seventeenth-century pulpit and a medieval crucifix.

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