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The 58,000-square-foot (5,400 m 2) Norway Pavilion is designed to look like a Norwegian village. [1] The village includes a detailed reproduction Stave church, with a statue of Olaf II Haraldsson out front, and the exterior of its main table-service restaurant, Restaurant Akershus, resembles its namesake in Oslo.
Akershus Fortress (Norwegian: Akershus Festning, pronounced [ɑkəʂˈhʉːs ˈfɛ̂sːtnɪŋ]) [1] or Akershus Castle (Norwegian: Akershus slott [ɑkəʂˈhʉːs ˈslɔtː]) [2] is a medieval castle in the Norwegian capital Oslo that was built to protect and provide a royal residence for the city.
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Akershus Royal Banquet Hall and Restaurant Akershus at the Norway Pavilion at Epcot, Walt Disney World Resort, Florida; Åkershus, Staffanstorp, an area of rental apartments in Staffanstorp Municipality, Skåne County, Sweden
The Royal Mausoleum contains two sarcophagi: in a white sarcophagus of marble rest King Haakon VII of Norway (1872–1957) and Queen Maud of Norway (1869–1938), née Princess Maud of Wales, [1] [2] and in a green sarcophagus rest King Olav V of Norway (1903–1991) and Crown Princess Märtha of Norway (1901–1954), née Princess of Sweden.
A banquet hall, function hall, or reception hall, is a special purpose room, or a building, used for hosting large social and business events. Typically a banquet hall is capable of serving dozens to hundreds of people a meal in a timely fashion. People and organizations rent them to hold parties, banquets, wedding receptions, or other social ...
Akershus (Norwegian pronunciation: [ɑkəʂˈhʉːs] ⓘ) [2] is a county in Norway, with Oslo as its administrative centre, though Oslo is not located within Akershus. Akershus has been a region in Eastern Norway with Oslo as its main city since the Middle Ages, and is named after the Akershus Fortress in Oslo and ultimately after the medieval farm Aker in Oslo.
The name originally belonged to a farm which was located near the current Old Aker Church. The church in turn became the source of the name of the parish and later municipality as well as Akershus Fortress , the main fief and main county of Akershus which included most of Eastern Norway until 1919, the smaller county of Akershus, and numerous ...