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( 62 44 90 00; www.trysil.radissonblu.com ; Hotellveien 1; summer s/d from Nkr890/990, winter d
from Nkr1990; )
One of the few Trysil hotels to open year-round, this is Trysil's most luxurious accommod-
ation and outside the winter ski season (when prices are high) it's a first-rate bargain with
huge, impeccable rooms in a large wooden building at the edge of a ski slope. It also con-
tains an impressive pool complex.
The resort also has Trysil's best restaurant (mains Nkr150 to Nkr236).
It's signed just off the Elverum road south of town.
NORTHERN CENTRAL NORWAY
Røros
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Røros, a charming Unesco World Heritage-listed site set in a small hollow of stunted
forests and bleak fells, is one of Norway's most beautiful villages. The Norwegian writer
Johan Falkberget described Røros as 'a place of whispering history', and this historic
copper-mining town (once called Bergstad, which means 'mountain city') has wonderfully
preserved, colourful wooden houses that climb the hillside, as well as fascinating relics of
the town's mining past. Røros has become something of a retreat for artists, who lend even
more character to this enchanted place.
Røros is one of the coldest places in Norway - the temperature once dropped to a
mighty bracing -50.4°C.
History
According to local legend, in 1644 Olsen Åsen shot a reindeer at Storvola (Storwartz),
13km from Røros. The enraged creature pawed at the ground, revealing a glint of copper
ore. In the same year Røros Kobberverk was established, followed two years later by a
royal charter that granted it exclusive rights to all minerals, forest products and waterways
(and local labour) within 40km of the original discovery.
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