Located just south of Gamle Aker kirke Damstredet consists of two streets featuring preserved homes…read morefrom the late 1700-1800s. Still inhabited amidst stone streets locals and tourists gather to snap pictures and explore while residents tend to gardens nearby full of produce and flowers.

We loved visiting this part of town! Its corky, beautiful and the locals were very friendly…read more We did have a hard time walking due to the slippery/icy floors... The city should provide more safety equipment (for the locals mostly!)

If you're visiting Oslo for the first time, you'll likely visit the Oslo Opera House due to its…read moreunique design and rooftop access with views of the Norwegian capital. However, there's more to it than the rooftop. The inside is equally stunning. There's also an area where you can see the opera costumes

While we couldn't go inside the perimeter and roof walk were standalone worth the visit. A nice…read morewalk up the marble roof and near 360 Views of the city and local attractions. A nice activity to enjoy before main attractions open at 10AM.

The Parliament building for Norway, it's courtyard is the seat of most political gatherings and as…read moreour guide said, is one of the most important spaces in Oslo. The two lions who overlook it were made by two prisoners who were given jail time but as a rehabilitation measure were both directed to carve one each. One turned his life around and became a famous sculptor, the other fell back into crime and was executed. The courtyard itself is where any and all persons can protest or bring something to Parliament for discussion and later in the day after our tour one was setting up as we walked by. All in all, it's a great stop on a tour and one of the more interesting parts of Oslo, but I'm still curious which lion was made by who.

Stortinget is the Parliament Building in Oslo, Norway. It has been the seat of the Norwegian…read moreNational Assembly since 1866. That is all the history I know because we did not go on one of the free guided tours of this incredible structure. Bad timing cause there was no tour available during our short stay in Oslo. What I can say is that the building is impressive and beautiful on the outside. Great place to take photos! Don't forget your camera.

This "district" or community is fantastic!…read more Built my the marina. There are residential buildings, a multi-building shopping mall, multiple museums, art installations, beutiful scultpures, a playground, food hall, many food establishments. Very shoppable, very livable, very artistic, very photogenic, very Instagrammable.

Quick business trip to Oslo, Norway in early December - very limited free time. It was easy enough…read moreto figure out how to get here using the local train system, and helpful street signs pointed out the way to get to the harbor. The weather was terrible, but no matter. For a few hours of wandering, I managed to keep myself entertained wandering around this gorgeous area's restaurants, shops and harbor chock full of sailboats and ferries. Give yourself permission to get lost and wander! It's worth it.

The museum part of the castle was interesting to walk through, but had very little information to…read morelearn about what we were seeing and the significance. I wouldn't go out of my way to look at this place, but it is worth it if you're right there.

I actually just walked the outside of the castle. The grounds were gorgeous. There were various…read morefruit trees. Oranges and crab apples. The large crab apple tree planted in the center of the large lawn was so abundant that there were tons of over ripened ones that had fallen all over and littered the lawn. This caused a bunch of bees buzzing around them on the lawn. There are also a lot of tourists walking the outer grounds of the castle, stopping to pose next to the cannons. The views of the ocean and blue skies are noteworthy. It was worth the long walk from the hotel.

We got personal guide tour to this amazing place. Located in central of the city and well known…read morefor the amazing mural and the annual Nobel ceremony celebration. Huge main floor and brick wall covered with events taken place here with informations. Quite a unique place to check out.

Oslo City Hall wasn't open most of this week due to local elections but we finally got inside on…read moreour last day. City Hall was an imposing building of brick. The long driveway up included covered walkways with mounted wooden carvings depicting scenes from Nordic mythology. Each scene included a bilingual explanation which was helpful to learn the context. Well worth the time to see these. Inside only the first floor was opened for visitors on the day of our visit. It was cavernous with much higher ceilings than I expected. The wall murals were spectacular. A small display on one of the offshoot halls contained some details about the annual Nobel Peace Prize ceremony. Downstairs were the WCs and cafeteria. At least free to entry versus some other Scandinavian city halls!

This is one of the most bewildering "tourist" sites I have ever come across. Really it should…read moreprobably be ignored, but I feel it's my Yelp duty to warn fellow travellers who may also be tempted by all the other 5 star reviews. It's a set of very uninteresting stairs, in a "edgy" looking area, with a rubbish view at the top and the highlight of a couple of very low key wolf type statues at the bottom. This is not something that in anyway should be called a tourist site and if it is classified as that then it should be about 400 on the list of landmarks worth seeing. There is literally loads of statues across Oslo that are way more interesting that the ones at the bottom of these crappy stairs. Scraping the bottoms of the barrel of tourist attractions, one to avoid for sure.

An immense public park filled with the colossal sculptures and monumental gates by Gustav Vigeland…read more I had wanted to see this and luckily our tour brought us here. Our guide described the history of the sculpture garden and gave interpretations of many of the sculptures. Well worth a visit.

Well that sure was interesting - a whole park of over 500 sculptures by the same artist. The park…read moreitself is beautiful, free, huge and it's open all the time. No fences! It is a big tourist attraction so in peak season it can be busy but rarely crowded except at a few popular sculptures like the angry boy. For me the sculptures were OK and felt a bit repetive in style though they are certainly all different. We took the tram here since it is a bit out from central Oslo. One of the best deals in Norway!