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brisk pace, including a fair bit of up and down. Navigate with the TI's free
city map and the map in this chapter. This walk is best during daylight hours.
Begin the walk by leaving Karl Johans Gate at the top of the hill, and head
up
Akersgata
—Oslo's “Fleet Street” (lined with major newspaper compan-
ies). After two blocks, at Apotekergata, you may see the side street blocked
off and construction work to the right. They're cleaning up from the horrific
bombing of July 2011 (see sidebar); the car bomb went off just a block to the
right of here, on Grubbegata. Posters around this area identify four buildings
that suffered structural damage in the bombing. Continuing up Akersgata, the
street name becomes Ullevålsveien as it passes those buildings. Norwegians
are planning to build a memorial here in the near future.
Continuing past this somber site, you'll approach the massive brick Tre-
foldighets Church and St. Olav's Church before reaching the
Vår Frelsers
(Our Savior's) Cemetery.
Enter the cemetery across from the Baby Shop
store (where Ullevålsveien meets Wessels Gate).
Stop at the big metal map just inside the gate to chart your course through
the cemetery: Go through the light-green Æreslunden section—with the
biggestplotsandhighestelevation—andouttheoppositeend(#13onthemet-
al map) onto Akersveien. En route, check out some of the tombstones of the
illuminatiandliteratiburiedinthehonoraryÆreslundensection.Theyinclude
Munch,Ibsen,Bjørnson,andmanyofthepainters whoseworksyoucanseein
