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Norway’s most colourful street - Ovre Holmegate, Stavanger


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In this video I take a short stroll along Stavanger's Øvre Holmegate, a popular street with both locals and tourists - and described as the Notting Hill of Stavanger. It’s said to be the most colourful street in Norway.

Filmed on July 21st, 2016, on either my iPhone 5S or SE - during our Fjords Cruise on the cruise ship P&O Aurora.

Known locally as Fargegaten (which translates as the Colour Street), Øvre Holmegate used to be a street like any other in the old shopping district of Stavanger. In 2005 local hairdresser Tom Kjørsvik decided he wanted to create a vibrant environment to draw more visitors to his salon and the neighbouring businesses.

The houses either side of the street were painted in different colours, based on a Miami Vice inspired colour scheme suggested by the Scottish artist Craig Flannagan.

It’s not the colours alone that make the street work, but the very deliberate colour combinations. Each house was given a series of colours for its façade, doors and window frames. designed to harmonise with its neighbours.

Commentary by Ian Bullock, July 2016.
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