Ålesund City Guide
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Welcome to a walk through Ålesund. With this guide you get an insight into new and old stories from Ålesund and the people who formed the city. Enjoy the city in your very own pace, and listen to the teller's voice which is activated when you enter inside the red circle surrounding each point of interest found on your map. On the Voice Of Norway map on your mobile device you will find a complete overview over historical and cultural places and objects. Enjoy!
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Points of interest
#1
Ålesund
(Photo: iStock.com) Ålesund is the largest town in Møre og Romsdal. The town is one of the world's main exporters of dried and salted cod and is internationally renowned for its characteristic architecture — a result of the catastrophic fire in 1904 which destroyed almost the entire town centre. More about this in Jugendstilsenteret. Today, Ålesund's population is growing, and is expected to surpass 50,000 inhabitants in a few years.
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The Money Rock
This large, mythical rock is dramatically placed on the edge of a crag. Several generations of people from Ålesund have found their way here, because the “Pengesteinen” (Money Rock) has a lot of mysterious and strange superstitions associated with it. Some say that thieves have dug down a large amount of money under the rock, which they were to pick up at a later time, and never did. But you could also achieve riches if you threw a coin under it, on the north side of the rock; this was supposed to bring you luck and financial luck, maybe not at once, but in time. And at the end of the 1890s, there was a rumour that a German watch merchant staged a robbery in his own store, and that the loot was hidden, of course, under the “Pengesteinen”. It is likely that most of the rumours are just that, rumours, stories affected by youthful imagination. But who know what is really underneath the “Pengesteinen”?