A town in the middle of the ocean extends about 350 km north of the Arctic circle. Their history goes back far up to 9,000 years, but only 80 people in the city lived around 1800. His recovery was Tromsø when it became the first bishop and then science site. Then began the expeditions to the North Pole by Roald Amundsen and Fridthjof Nansen of Tromsø from. What was in 1927, initially only a northern lights Observatory, finally in 1968 was transformed into the northernmost University in Europe. The Arctic exotic of city exerts a high attraction to students from all over the world. The 7000 students are enrolled there. Just as international as their students, Tromsø is twinned with anchorage, Alaska, Luleå in Sweden, Ringkøbing in Denmark and Zagreb in Croatia. Tromsø is funded by the Norwegian Parliament. So many offices and public research institutions were moved to Tromsø.
Tromsø has joined with its exotic site and realized some buildings, which are always the subject of the North. Life with icy nature and man in the middle of her was expressed in 1965 by the construction of the Cathedral of the Arctic Ocean. Today this church appears to very modern and certainly was an architectural innovation to their construction. At the same time, it has the largest glass mosaic window of Europe. In addition, there is the Polaria event Centre, where the Habitat Polar Sea and Barents Sea is informed with a huge aquarium. And of course the world famous polar expeditions will be addressed in the polar Museum. The life of the Sami is explained clearly in the City Museum. For those who desire to survey the city, goes simply with the cable car to the mountain of Tromsøs, the Storsteinen. And if you rather would like to view the underworld of the city, driving a car through the public Straßentunnel system, which runs through the whole island under the city and is equipped with its own signs and traffic conditions. To realize this, simply added the sanctuary from the second world war. In addition, this underground system provides protection against glaciations.
With your rental car, you are of course mobile and can reach even more distant areas in Northern Norway. But simply drive city Kautokeino in the Samit-or visit the North Cape, the northernmost point of mainland Europe. Did you know that the North Cape of Oslo is just as far away as Oslo from Rome? The size of Norway are enormous. However a ride with a hire car to the Lofoten Islands or to Narvik of Tromsø is feasible. You can a car in the city of Tromsø, as well as Tromsø airport. The car hire in Tromsø offers a car hire station at various locations. Rent a car and enjoy the polar night, when the sun sets not in summer or in winter, the northern lights over Tromsø shimmer.
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