Ålesund City Guide
Provided by:
Destinasjon Ålesund og Sunnmøre
Welcome to Visit Ålesund & Sunnmøre's Ålesund City Audioguide. Walk around town in your own pace, and explore the various sites and location marked with red areas in the map. After you have purchased the audioguide click "Download" and then click "Start" to be taken to the map. Narrators voice will play when you enter into the red areas in the map. Enjoy beautiful Ålesund!
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Points of interest
#1
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”?