Theme: Nature in Norway

Oslo Botanical Garden

Botanisk hage

The Botanical Garden at Tøyen is part of the University of Oslo's Natural History Museum, Norway's largest natural history museum, whose premises cover everything inside the garden's fences.

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• Oslo

Palace Park

Slottsparken

The Palace Park (Slottsparken) is a 22-hectare public park in the centre of Oslo surrounding the Royal Palace.

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• Oslo

Eidsvolls plass

Eidsvolls plass is a square and park in central Oslo, west of the Parliament building, south of Karl Johans gate and east of Studenterlunden and the National Theatre.

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• Oslo

Middelalderparken

Middelalderparken (the Medieval Park) lies between Bjørvika and Gamlebyen in the Gamle Oslo district, in what was once the southern part of medieval Oslo.

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• Oslo

Olaf Ryes plass

Olaf Ryes plass is a roughly square park at the centre of the Grünerløkka district of Oslo.

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• Oslo

St. Hanshaugen Park

St. Hanshaugen

St. Hanshaugen Park is a large, classic urban park just north of Oslo city centre and gives its name to the surrounding borough of St.

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• Oslo

Schous plass

Schous plass is a square with a park in the southern part of the Grünerløkka district of Oslo. It was laid out in 1873 and named in 1874 after the brewery owner Christian Schou, whose Schou Brewery stood nearby.

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• Oslo

Minneparken

Minneparken (the Memorial Park) is a 3.4-hectare park in Gamlebyen in the Gamle Oslo district, next to Oslo torg, containing the excavated ruins of several medieval buildings.

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• Oslo

Sofienbergparken

Sofienbergparken (Sofienberg Park) is a large park in the Grünerløkka district of Oslo and one of the city's most popular parks.

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• Oslo

Birkelunden

Birkelunden (literally 'The Birch Grove') is a park in the centre of the Grünerløkka borough of Oslo, laid out as a rectangle roughly the size of a city block.

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• Oslo

Kontraskjæret

Kontraskjæret is a park of more than 17 decares (1.7 ha) on the open ground in front of Akershus Fortress in Oslo.

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Studenterlunden

Studenterlunden ('the students' grove') is a park in central Oslo, bounded by Karl Johans gate, Stortingsgata, Frederiks gate and Roald Amundsens gate, just west of Eidsvolls plass.

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• Oslo

Tøyen Park

Tøyenparken

Tøyen Park (Tøyenparken) is a park in Oslo, north-east of the old Munch Museum and next to the University of Oslo Botanical Garden.

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• Oslo

Østensjøvannet

Østensjøvannet is a lake in the Østensjø borough of Oslo, named after the Østensjø farm, and is well known for the wide variety of birds and other wildlife found there.

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• Oslo

Klosterenga

Klosterenga park is a long, narrow park of almost 66 decares in the Gamle Oslo borough, between Nordre Gamlebyen and Grønland, running north-west to south-east up towards Galgeberg and bounded to the north by the wall of Oslo Prison.

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• Oslo

Sommerroparken

Sommerroparken (Sommerro Park), formerly called Solliparken, is a small park at Solli plass in the Frogner district of Oslo: a narrow grass-covered strip about 200 metres long and at most 8 metres wide between Henrik Ibsens gate and Sommerrogata, with…

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• Oslo

Torshovparken

Torshovparken is a large park of 41 decares at Torshov in the Sagene borough of Oslo, laid out in the 1920s as part of Torshovbyen, the municipal housing area built at the time.

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• Oslo

Voksenåsen

Voksenåsen is a hill and residential area in the Vestre Aker borough of Oslo, 502.4 metres above sea level, encircled by the Holmenkollen metro line to the south, west and north, with Tryvannshøyden and the Nordmarka forest to the north…

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• Oslo

Furuset kulturpark

Furuset kulturpark is a 15.2-decare park next to Furuset Church at Furuset in the upper Groruddalen valley, in Oslo's Alna borough.

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• Oslo

Sinsenparken

Sinsenparken, also called Sinsenjordet, is a 21.2-decare park at Sinsen in Oslo, between Lørenveien and the Gjøvik railway line.

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Kværnerparken

Kværnerparken is a small park at Kværner in the Gamle Oslo borough, bounded by the junction of Eirik Raudes vei and Enebakkveien at its lower, north-western side and by Konows gate at its upper, south-eastern edge.

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• Oslo

Tryvannshøyden

Tryvannshøgda

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• Oslo

Grefsenåsen

Grefsenkollen

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• Oslo

Hakkloa

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• Oslo