Lillehammer

Lillehammer is one of the most known Norwegian ski resorts, but it is and much more then this. The city hosted the 1994 winter Olympics and this gave a major boast to the
popularity as a winter resort of this other ways calm northern Norwegian town. When speaking of winter fun Lillehammer has it all - a ski-jumping arena, an ice-hockey arena, a cross-country skiing stadium, and a bobsled and luge track, along with the many conventional ski sloops that surround the city. Other major attraction of the city are the almost 150 working 13th century farms and village houses that surround the city and are considered the main summer attraction of Lillehammer.
Lillehammer is also a cultural centre. It hosts the Winter Arts Festival, the Norwegian Literature Festival, and is the home of one of the best collections of Norwegian art in the country.