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Baneheia Park
Baneheia Park, offers greenery and a network of lakeside hiking and skiing tracks for those keen to escape the city for a while. The park was created between 1870 and 1880 by Kristiansand's city chairman, General Oscar Wergeland. Over a 30-year period, he oversaw the planting of 150,000 coniferous trees and transformed the area into a recreational green belt.
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Christiansholm Fortress
The most prominent feature along the Strandepromenaden is the distinctive Christiansholm Fortress. Built by royal decree between 1662 and 1672 to keep watch over the strategic Skagerrak Straits and protect the city from pirates and rambunctious Swedes, the construction featured walls up to 5m thick and an armoury buried within a concentric inner wall, all of which came at a price: 1550 local citizens were taxed to fund the project and coerced into labour.
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Gimle Estate
The winding paths through the established 50-hectare park at Gimle Estate lead through a botanic garden that also contains rocks, minerals and stuffed animals. The estate house has 19th-century period interiors and extraordinary teeth-like columns at the front, and there's also a historic rose garden dating from 1850. It's just over 1km from the centre, across the Oddernes bridge.
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Kristiansand Cannon Museum
The Kristiansand Cannon Museum , 8km south of town, preserves the Germans' heavy Vara Battery, which, along with an emplacement at Hanstholm in Denmark, ensured German control of the strategic Skagerrak Straits. At each end, four 337-tonne, 38cm cannons, reportedly the second heaviest guns in the world and with a range of 55km controlled traffic along either end of the strait, while the unprotected middle zone was heavily mined.
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Kristiansand Cathedral
Built in a late gothic style in 1884, the Kristiansand Cathedral, with seating for 1800 people, is Norway's third-largest church. Guided tours of the cathedral, including the tower, run at and Monday to Saturday in summer; and there are organ recitals at Tuesday to Saturday during the same period.
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Kristiansand Dyrepark
Kristiansand Dyrepark, is the former Kristiansand Zoo off the E18 10km east of Kristiansand, has gradually expanded into what is probably the favourite holiday destination for children in Norway.
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Kristiansand Zoo
The Kristiansand Zoo, off the E18 10km east of Kristiansand, has gradually expanded into what is probably the favourite holiday destination for children in Norway.
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Posebyen
The Kristiansand Posebyen takes in most of the 14 blocks at the northern end of the town's characteristic kvadraturen . It's worth taking a slow stroll around this pretty quarter, whose name was given by French soldiers who came to reposer (French for relax). A scale model (with buildings around 1m high) of the city as it appeared when designed by Christian IV is on view at Vest-Agder Folk Museum.
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Ravnedalen Park
Ravnedalen Park, offers greenery and a network of lakeside hiking and skiing tracks for those keen to escape the city for a while. The park was created between 1870 and 1880 by Kristiansand's city chairman, General Oscar Wergeland. Over a 30-year period, he oversaw the planting of 150,000 coniferous trees and transformed the area into a recreational green belt.
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Setesdalsbanen Railway
The 78km-long narrow-gauge railway between Kristiansand and Byglandsfjord was opened in 1896 to link Setesdalen with the coast. It was used to transport nickel from the Evje mines; and local timber and barrel staves which were used in the salting and export of herring.
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Vest-Agder Folk Museum
Located 4km east of town on the E18, the open-air Vest-Agder Folk Museum houses a collection of 40 farmsteads and hamlets from the Setesdalen region and Kristiansand itself. It also includes displays of traditional costumes, art and children's toys. Folk dancing performances are sometimes held in summer at on Wednesdays. There's also a scale model of Kristiansand Old Town.
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