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Art Nouveau in Ålesund
Snug, tidy Ålesund owes much of its charm to a devastating fire that ripped
through its wooden structures a century ago, destroying everything except the jail
and a church. From its ashes rose a brand-new town, mostly of stone and mostly
designed by young Norwegian architects who had trained in Germany. Strongly in-
fluenced by the Jugendstil (art-nouveau) movement of the time, they designed
buildings rich in ornamentation, with turrets, spires, gargoyles and other fanciful
elements based on local motifs.
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