The Palace Park is a public park in the center of Oslo, Norway, surrounding the Royal Palace. It is.HistoryIt was built during the 1840s and was designed by Hans Ditlev Franciscus Linstow, who was the main architect of the palace. Two thousand trees were planted in 1848, but since then the park has been redeveloped several times, becoming simpler with larger but fewer paths and fewer creeks.
St. Hanshaugen Park is a large public park located just north of the city center of Oslo, Norway.BackgroundSt. Hanshaugen Park is a classic urban park located within the borough of St. Hanshaugen, which was named for the park which lies within its center. The park location was originally a bare rock hill. In the 1840s, inhabitants of Oslo began to use the park as site for their Midsummer Eve bonfire. St. Hans is the Norwegian term for Midsummer Eve while haugen (from Old Norse haugr) refers to a hill.Fritz Heinrich Frølich (1807-1877), a successful banker and industrialist, initiated development of the park around 1850. During the middle of the 1860s, over one thousand trees were planted creating the first major park outside the city center. Starting in 1867 the city took responsibility for the park and the last major works were carried out in the years 1876–1890. The park also got a groundskeeper's house, an artificial creek and a pavilion on Festplassen square. Through the years, a number of statues were also placed in the park. The final part of the park was added with purchases of land in 1909.The mixture of intimate and romantic areas in the south together with fabulous views and entertainment in the northern part make the park quite popular. St. Hanshaugen Park has a stage used for outdoor concerts, with rolling hills which provide scenic views to downtown Oslo. St. Hanshaugen Park is also the site of Kongene på Haugen, an annual local music festival.Notable StatuesPeter Chr. Asbjørnsen by Brynjulf Bergslien (1885)Kvinne by Ørnulf Bast (1947)Musikanter by Arne Vinje Gunnerud (1970)Svane by Arne Durban (1981)
Frogner Park is a public park located in the borough of Frogner in Oslo, Norway, and is historically part of Frogner Manor. The manor house is located in the south of the park, and houses the Oslo City Museum. Both the park, the entire borough of Frogner as well as Frognerseteren derive their names from Frogner Manor.Frogner Park contains, in its present centre, the world famous Vigeland installation, a permanent sculpture installation created by Gustav Vigeland between the 1920s and 1943. Although sometimes incorrectly referred to in English as the "Vigeland Park," the Vigeland installation is not a separate park, but the name of the sculptures within Frogner Park. The sculpture park consists of sculptures as well as larger structures such as bridges and fountains.The park of Frogner Manor was historically smaller and centered on the manor house, and was landscaped as a baroque park in the 18th century by its owner, the noted military officer Hans Jacob Scheel. It was landscaped as a romantic park in the 19th century by then-owner, German-born industrialist Benjamin Wegner. Large parts of the estate were sold to give room for city expansion in the 19th century, and the remaining estate was bought by Christiania municipality in 1896 and made into a public park. It was the site of the 1914 Jubilee Exhibition, and Vigeland's sculpture arrangement was constructed from the 1920s. In addition to the sculpture park, the manor house and a nearby pavilion, the park also contains Frognerbadet and Frogner Stadium. The Frogner Pond is found in the centre of the park.
