Fortress sights in Fredrikstad

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   Kongsten Festning

   • Fredrikstad, Norway
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   On what was once called 'Gallows hill' stands the flower-festooned Kongsten Festning . Dating from 1685, it once served as a lookout and warning post for the troops at nearby Gamlebyen. Although it can get overrun on summer weekends, this otherwise lonely and appealingly unkempt spot is a fun place to scramble around the turrets, embankments, walls and stockade, or just sit in the sun and soak up the silence.

   It's a 10-minute walk southeast of the Gamlebyen drawbridge (turn off Torsnesvien at Fredrikstad Motell & Camping).

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