Destination Ålesund Cityguide
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Destinasjon Ålesund og Sunnmøre
This audioguide is available in: Norwegian English 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
Molja
The jetty, with its well-known lighthouse, was finished in 1855, and was financed in cooperation between the Port Authorities and the merchants in the city. Moljå, or Moljo, is the way this jetty is referenced in Ålesund. An explanation for why the word has been twisted like this can be found in Spanish, as there were, in the 1800s, a lot of Spanish ships stopping by the city to buy stockfish. With so many Spanish in the city at the same time, they inundated the people of Ålesund with their Spanish expressions, and in general coloured city life. A very distinctive hotel room has now been built inside the now more than 150 years old lighthouse on the tip of the jetty. Room 47 belongs to Brosundet Hotel, and has two floors, where the first floor is a bathroom, while the second floor is a combined bedroom and livingroom.
#2
The Walde House
The Waldehuset got the name” the miracle house” after the city fire in 1904. Anders Nord, who lived in the house on that fateful night of January 23rd in 1904, stated in the aftermath that he had been visited by an angel the day before the city fire. And the angel stated –”Fear not! I have been sent from the Almighty God to tell you that in this night, this whole city will be burnt to ashes for the many and large sins committed in it. But God has given you mercy – and you and your wife shall not go outside and not carry any of your belongings outside, for all that will carried outside will burn. I will keep you, and nothing evil will befall you.” Anders Nord did as the angel told him, and stayed in the Waldehuset as the city fire ravaged around him. His wife, Regine, who was not as strong in her faith as Anders himself, carried all of the furniture from the house into the city park during the night. When morning arrived, and the fire died down, the Waldehuset was left among the ruins, but the furniture carried outside, was burnt to ashes.