2013 FS Ekeberg
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Ekeberg The high rise area behind the “old Town” is the Ekeberg hill. It is said that Norwegian painter Edvard Munch got inspiration for his most famous painting, “The Scream”, standing at one of the viewpoints up there. Recalling a walk there with two friends in 1892, the artist summed up the moment thus: 'The sun was setting. Suddenly the sky turned blood-red. I paused, feeling exhausted, and leaned on the fence. There was blood and tongues of fire above the blue-black fjord and the city. My friends walked on, and I stood there trembling with anxiety – and I sensed an infinite scream passing through nature.’ The ”munch spot” is located close to the castle-like building that you can see up there. It is the old school of navigation for the Norwegian merchant fleet - nowadays serving as a high school.