Lillehammer tourist information
Lillehammer, considered Norway's oldest winter sport resort, provides you with a combination of long-standing traditions and the modern activities required by the people of today. The city at the northern end of Lake Mjøsa, with its beautiful, traditional wooden architecture, has facilities and activities to satisfy most any demands you might make on a holiday destination.
Hosting the Olympic winter-games in 1994 not only gave us a number of new attractions (all arenas are of course open to the public), but also an unique opportunity to show the world what Lillehammer has to offer.
After the opening of Oslo Airport Gardermoen just 150km from Lillehammer the travel distance by bus or train is approximately 2 hours. There are frequent train and bus departures direct from the airport terminal to Lillehammer.
The city's biggest attraction is the Sandvig Collection at Maihaugen, which ranks as one of the largest open-air museums in Europe and houses 185 buildings plus more than 40000 objects. Maihaugen presents a rural society through churches, homes, farmyards and tools from the Gudbrandsdalen valley, which extends north from Lillehammer.
Only a 10-minute walk from downtown and you are at the Olympic Park - here we recommend that you visit the Norwegian Olympic Museum in Håkon Hall and experience Summer and Winter Olympic history from Antiquity and up today, all via modern presentation techniques. The historical exhibitions reflect the societies the sports were a part of, also covering major events that have influenced the development of the Olympic Games. When you are in the Olympic Park, you should also visit the Lysgårdsbakkene Ski Jumping Arena with ski lift and ski jumping tower. Downtown you will find the Lillehammer art museum, which many argue is the country's leading visual arts museum with significant works by Norwegian artists such as Gude, Munch, Werenskiold, Krogh, Nedrum and Weidemann. The Lillehammer Art Museum served as a cultural venue during the XV11 Olympic Winter Games in 1994.
Marvellous skiing terrain and good, cold winters are the stuff of successful winter holidays. The Lillehammer mountains, with Nordseter and Sjusjøen, are among northern Europe's best cross-country skiing resorts and situated about 850 meters above sea level and 15-20 kilometer from the town centre. They can offer approximately 350 kilometers of skiing and direct trails between Lillehammer, the Hafjell alpine area and the Olympic trails at the Birkebeineren Skiing Stadium. In the Lillehammer area you will also find family slopes to demanding Olympic pists.
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