Across the street from the ferry pier in the heart of Oslo's Sentrum neighborhood lies Oslo City Hall, a government building best known for annually hosting the Nobel Peace Prize ceremony. This ...
If you decide to drive in downtown Oslo, be forewarned: You won’t be able to park on the street. By the beginning of this year, the city finished removing more than 700 parking spots–replacing them ...
When Oslo decided to be the first European city to ban cars from its centre, businesses protested. So the city did the next best thing: it banned parking One day late last summer, in Frogner, a ...
Oslo will announce plans to make public transport in the city cheaper when it unveils its budget on Wednesday. Pictured is a bus outside Jernbanetorget Station. Photo by Gunnar Ridderström on Unsplash ...
Oslo is one of the few cruise ports where sightseeing buses can make sense. However, cruise passengers who do a little homework can save money and see more of Norway’s capital in less time. ByDavid ...
The city of Oslo is under construction. It’s in the midst of building a mammoth new National Museum that will centralize its public collections starting in 2020, and the center—which stretches from ...
On streets in downtown Oslo, former parking spaces are now bike lanes and parklets with benches and gardens. Since the city made the change, converting hundreds of parking spaces in 2017 and 2018, car ...
On the surface, Oslo can be a somewhat unprepossessing city. Its abundance of brutalist architecture, exemplified by often bleak grey edifices and some rather angry-looking statues, may not be to ...
The Sámi flag flying at Oslo City Hall in 2016. File photo: AFP Oslo’s city council wants the Norwegian capital to have an official name in Sámi, the language group spoken by indigenous people from ...