Word: aker
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...Scandinavia's premier stages for jazz "and related sounds," this old warehouse on the Aker's west bank has live shows each night from Wednesday to Sunday. Brenneriveien...
...sieges; the sculpture garden with Gustav Vigeland's 14-m-tall Monolith, a phallic column of 121 writhing human figures. The city has plenty of other artistic, architectural and even culinary gems - the raisins in the bun. You just have to know where to walk. Step one: cross the Aker River. Before the 1624 fire that destroyed almost all of medieval Oslo, downtown was actually several kilometers east of the narrow, meandering stream. King Christian IV rebuilt it to the west and renamed it Christiania after himself. (In 1924, the city reverted to the original name, derived from...