Tønsberg – the town where I live – is the oldest town in Scandinavia. It was established in 871. There was a castle at a small mountain in the middle of the town which was the seat for the Norwegian Kings. Today it is a town center for appr. 100.000 people. It is situated by the beginning of the Oslo fjord, 1 hour and 30 min. with train from Oslo.
My house in Tønsberg, at the foot of the Castle Hill, 2 min. from the railroad station.
More information:
Visit Tønsberg http://www.visittonsberg.com/index_en.html
The Viking Ship exhibited at the Viking Ship Museum in Oslo – the Oseberg ship – was found just outside Tønsberg. A exact copy of the Oseberg ship will be build in Tønsberg the next three years. It will be build as the viking did it, only with an axe.
Just around 20 km from Tønsberg is the town Horten. It is not an old town, it was established around the Norwegian Naval marine Head Quarter in 1818. Today the old buildings from the navy is worth seeing. The old storehouses contains two museums: The Naval Museum which is an old fashoned collection of all sort of strange things http://www.preusmuseum.no/english/index.phpcollected inland and abroad from the Navy. But the other museum is the Norwegian National Museum for Photography.
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