Amor Omnia Vincit

The sound of hammer blows is heard. A new city is to be built.

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It is the day after the fire on August 11, 1198. Almost the entire city is burnt down. Everything is lost, but the sound of hammering spreads quickly. A new city is already rising from the ashes. The old buildings are levelled to the ground and pushed outward, into to the seafront, creating new land. No one will stop Bjørgvin from growing. For as it is written … Amor omnia vincit… love conquers all! Bergen has experienced more than 30 big fires throughout the city’s nearly thousand-year-old history, and in this story we imagine what it was like to wake up to a city that no longer existed…