St Olav

... off any atheist. Stiklestad is about 90km north of Trondheim or a short two hour journey by train and is home to St. Olav Festival. With its viking and medieval displays, medieval music and an outdoor musical telling the story of 1030 Stiklestad and King ...

... ; ivy climbing the walls (inside) added to the atmosphere. Time to continue exploring (& hopefully work off dessert). I made my way to St Olav's church, then to the Great Coastal Gate & Fat Margaret's Tower. It was dark by now, but the city is so ...

... ?" I commented to Jodie. The sun was shining, the streets were clean, the buildings interesting. "Tallinn is beautiful." St Olav's Church, Tallinn's largest medieval structure, was back along Pikk Street. Five hundred years previously, a massive spire was ...

... of where I was staying, still in Lai, even if a bit less unconcerned, I went ahead with my sightseeing and headed down towards the St. Olav's Church. In its heyday, the St. Olav's used to be the tallest church in Medieval Europe. Its early days are a bit ...

... they finally opened the coffin and found him to be rosy cheeked and smelling of fresh air, this being considered a miracle, King Olav became St Olav. We took a tour of the Cathedral which in its 1000 year history has had a few fires (sounds like a ...

... Sea. David still wanted to go up a tower, while my knees were screaming at me even on the flat. So next stop was St Olav's church. The guideboook describes it thus "The 13th-century St Olav's Church once boasted the tallest spire in the whole world. ...

... They have a beautiful home here in Trondheim, which itself has a beautiful fjord and harbor. We are lucky enough to be here during the St. Olav Festival (Hey Brad and Kirstin -- THE St. Olav is buried here !) and there are a lot of events at the 1100 ...

... to the Old Town. One of two remaining towers that were once part of a larger gate system built in the 14th century St. Olav's Church (Oleviste kirik), once the tallest in the world, is still the tallest building in TallinnIn 1285 the city became the ...

... , restaurants and houses stand. Ancient church spires climb majestically above the street level beauty. One of the churches, St. Olav's, was once the tallest building in the world back in the thirteenth century. Tallinn's Old Town Square is ...

... of the inside of the church (sadly, we couldn't take pictures) but it was beautiful! Learning about how the church was built to honor St. Olav and it was actually the destination for the Pilgrimage to Nidaros, as it still is today. I will fill you in with ...