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Old Town

The Old Town of Oslo is a neighbourhood in the inner city of , , belonging to the borough of and is the oldest urban area within the current capital.
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  • Type: Suburb
  • Description: neighborhood in the inner city of Oslo, Norway
  • Also known as: “Gamlebyen” and “Old Town, Oslo”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Munch Museum and Oslo Hospital.

Museum
Photo: Annikdance, CC BY-SA 4.0.
, marketed as Munch since 2020, is an art museum in , Oslo, Norway, dedicated to the life and works of the Norwegian artist Edvard Munch.

Public building
Photo: Mahlum, Public domain.
is a public building.

Park
Photo: Helge Høifødt, Public domain.
is situated in adjacent to Oslo torg at Gamlebyen in , Norway. The park is bounded by St. Hallvards plass and Oslo gate in the west, Bispegata in the south, St.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Galgeberg and Barcode Project.

Suburb
Photo: Mahlum, Public domain.
is a neighbourhood in the borough of in , . The neighbourhood lies near , and Gamlebyen. The name stems from the gallows present at the location in earlier times.

Neighborhood
Photo: Helge Høifødt, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The is a section of the portion of the Fjord City redevelopment on former dock and industrial land in central . It consists of a row of new multi-purpose high-rise buildings, that was completed in 2016.

Neighborhood
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
is a neighborhood.

Old Town

Latitude
59.90435° or 59° 54′ 16″ north
Longitude
10.76985° or 10° 46′ 11″ east
Elevation
34 metres (112 feet)
Open location code
9FFGWQ39+PW
Open­Street­Map ID
node 1125963703
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­suburb
Geo­Names ID
9304411
Wiki­data ID
Q4583418
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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Danish to Norwegian Nynorsk—“Old Town” goes by many names.
  • Danish: “Gamlebyen”
  • Dutch: “Old Town”
  • German: “Altstadt (Oslo)”
  • German: “Gamlebyen”
  • Italian: “Old Town”
  • Japanese: “オスロ旧市街”
  • Japanese: “旧オスロ”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Gamlebyen i Oslo”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Gamlebyen”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Gamlebyen i Oslo”
  • Norwegian: “Gamlebyen”

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Notable Places Nearby

Highlights include Dyvekes bru and Gamlebyen gravlund.

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Old Town”. Photo: Krakers, CC BY-SA 4.0.