Article: Bergen Born & Bred by the Sea.(European City of Culture 2000)

Among Europe's nine cultural muses for the year 2000, the port of Bergen (pop. 230,000), gateway to the flords of western Norway, is one of three cities to be chosen from outside the European Union. (Prague and Reykjavik are the other two.) The sea which surrounds it has both insulated it from outside dangers and linked it to the world at large.

Without water, Bergen would be unthinkable. It works and plays in it, relies on it for food and transport, and feels as much at home in it as any mermaid would. Bergen even has its own particularly aggressive brand of rain, which delivers stinging lashes of icy water to all exposed body parts. Driven by a cold wind, it ...

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