Travel Tip #5: Nidaros Cathedral | Trondheim, Norway

in #norway7 years ago

Okay, travel tip #5, here we go!

These next travel-tip-posts will be about another beautiful city in Norway called Trondheim.

The first thing you have to do when visiting Trondheim, is to see Nidaros Cathedral. It's going to take your breath away. I've seen it once before, but I didn't appreciate it as much as I did now. It's absolutely amazing!

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The cathedral was built from 1070 to 1300 over the burial site of Saint Olav. He was the king of Norway in the 11th century.

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After the Protestant Reformation, it was taken from the Roman Catholics by the Lutheran Church in 1537. It is the northernmost medieval cathedral in the world.

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It's such a powerful, and a bit scary, building.

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I believe most tourists just like to look at the front side of the building, but as the curious person I am, I walked around and in to the graveyard.

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Using fences around graves, indicates that there's a whole family buried there. I'm not sure how normal that is today though. Another theory is that they wanted to keep the spirits inside of these fences.

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I get so fascinated by old things, and especially things that comes with a great history. There are a lot of people buried there. Some very old from the 1800s, and some newer. Some of the gravestones were so old that the writings had faded away.

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I really love the architecture of the building, and how well kept the details are.

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Today the cathedral is one of the biggest tourist attraction in Trondheim, and there's always people looking at it. I've heard it's really amazing at night as well.

You should definitely put Trondheim on your list of places to visit, and Nidaros Cathedral is a must-see!

I hope you liked my post and photos, and as always all feedback is very much appreciated.

Have a nice day!

Kristin.

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I see what you mean about this being a powerful and a little scary building, but it is also so amazing! Great shots too! Would have loved to share this... :) On the other hand, you could post the second last pic for DistinctiveDoors by tattoodjay :) It's marvellous!

Thank you so much @ackhoo! Yes it really is amazing. I really appreciate your comment, feel free to share :) Is DistinctiveDoors a hashtag or something? :)

You're most welcome! Unfortunately, steemit is designed such we can only resteem if the post is less than a week old - so I missed this! No worries, will watch out for your future posts... Yes, DistinctiveDoors is a hashtag - you can check it out and see what it's all about - coincidentally, I have just completed a post, if that helps... Cheers!! :)

Aaw you're so kind! I'll definitely check out the hashtag and your post! Thanks for the tip! :)

No worries... hope you enjoy it! :)

Kjempe post! bra jobba!
jeg har et lite tips til deg, bildene dine er veldig store å gjør at posten din blir veldig tung å laste for sånne som meg som ikke har så bra internett linje (og folk som bruker mobilen) for at folk ikke skal kjede seg å gå videre til en annen post for de ikke klarer å laste inn hele posten din så kan det være en fordel å skallere ned bildene. vil jo ikke at du ska miste potensielle upvote's fordi folk ikke gidder vente. det du kan gjøre med bildene dine er å åpne dem i GIMP å skallere dem ned litt, sånn gjør du: trykk image -> scale image. velg 800x600 oppløsning. trykk så på file -> export as... for å lagre bildet som .jpg

Hei, @flatman! Det har jeg faktisk ikke tenkt på! Tusen takk for tips, det skal jeg gjøre med min neste post! :) Ha en fin kveld videre :)

These are wonderful photos. So much character in this place! I would love to visit and explore like you did.
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Aww thank you so much, @sallybeth23! I really appreciate it! :) Yes, you should definitely make that happen!

Sounds Like An Amazing Journey

Yes, it really was, @failsvoter! :)

very interesting post ,, and very nice ... @kristinbr !!!

Thank you so much @fujaxxi :)

Thanks for sharing , your post is amazing

Upvoted !

By the way ,I started following you and I would appreciate your follow back too .
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Thank you so much, @abu1997 :) I'll check out your profile :)

:) upvoted&followed :)

Thank you so much, @tomaszek! :)

Great post kristin :)