Lillehammer

Lillehammer is a Norwegian city county of Oppland, at the northern end of the lake Mjøsa.

It borders the communes of Øyer in north, Ringsaker in the south east, Gjøvik in the south, Nordre Land in the western south, and Gausdal in the west.

The city is located at 180 km in the north of Oslo, that is to say with 1:34 in the train and less than 2 hours in the car.

Demography

Lillehammer counts 25.537 inhabitants at January 1st, 2007.

Geography

Lillehammer extends on a surface from 477 km.

History

Lillehammer obtained the right to make trade in 1827 and the statute of city in 1842. The merchant Ludvig the Wiese is regarded as the founder of the city. In 1964, the common one amalgamated with that of Fåberg.

Attractions

  • Museum in the open air of Maihaugen

  • Museum of art of Olympic Lillehammer
  • Park of Lillehammer
  • Norsk Kjøretøyhistorisk Museum
  • Norwegian Olympic Museum
  • Bjerkebæk, house of Sigrid Undset

Olympic Games

Lillehammer is famous to have lodged the Winter Olympics of 1994, in co-operation with the communes of Gjøvik, Øyer, Ringebu and Hamar. It is on this occasion that, for the first and single time, of the tests of the same Olympic disciplines were held not to four but at two years of interval.

Eurovision

It accommodated the Concours Eurovision of the Song Junior.

Twinning

Lillehammer is twinned at the French city of Autrans (Isere, 38) which is in the Massif of Vercors close to Grenoble.

Famous characters

Newspapers

  • Gudbrandsdalen Dagningen

  • Lillehammer byavis

External bonds

  • Common of Lillehammer

  • tourist Information on Lillehammer
  • historical Photographs of Lillehammer 1880-1927

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