The one landmark in Oslo you are invited to walk on: up the white slope from the water's edge for the fjord, the city and the hills in one turn of the head.
Photo: Jorge Láscar/Wikimedia Commons (CC BY 2.0)
Difficulty
Easy – a sloping marble roof
Start
Oslo Opera House, Kirsten Flagstads plass 1
Past
The marble roof surface by the artists Kristian Blystad, Kalle Grude and Jorunn Sannes, To the right, the fjord islands and their painted summer houses, To the left, the city centre, Behind, the hills around Oslo
Season
Snøhetta's building opened in 2008; Visit Norway calls the roof 'a beautiful surface meant to be stepped on'.
With children
Short and free; children can run up the slope – but the roof is a smooth, sloping surface, so take care in wet or icy weather.
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