Røros · Norway

Christmas in Røros

Røros (town) — contextual destination photograph — Background image for Røros (town); not a photograph of a confirmed current event. Image: Randi Hausken from Bærum, Norway · CC BY-SA 2.0 · Original on Wikimedia Commons. Resized and converted to WebP.

A Christmas stay in the historic mining town of Røros. Festive atmosphere provides the seasonal invitation; the town's heritage gives the journey a deeper sense of place.

Destination background

Røros or Plaassja (Southern Sami) is the administrative centre of Røros Municipality in Trøndelag county, Norway. The town is located along the river Hyttelva and along the Rørosbanen railway line, about 10 kilometres (6.2 mi) south of the village of Glåmos and about the same distance north of the village of Os i Østerdalen in neighboring Innlandet county.

Adapted background from Wikipedia contributors, Røros (town), CC BY-SA 4.0. This reference describes the place or tradition, rather than a current event programme.

Explore nearby World Heritage

Approximate straight-line distances between representative map points, not travel distances or a claim that this experience is within a UNESCO property.

Røros Mining Town and the Circumference — 18.2 km

Make it your own journey

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