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Ålesund (or Aalesund)

Coastal town in Møre og Romsdal county, western Norway; population (2007 est) 40,800. It is the main centre of the Norwegian herring-fishing industry. The town is built on five islands, linked by bridges.

The town was destroyed by fire 1904, and was rebuilt within three years in art nouveau style.



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We took a bus through the hills, past an occasional sod-roofed dwelling and fields carpeted with dandelions, and ended up at the art nouveau city of Alesund, built in the 1930s.
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Alesund is a busy little port with a strong nautical tradition on the west coast of Norway above Bergen.
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The Norwegian researchers studied 2,161 children born in the cities of Trondheim and Alesund from 1979 to 1981.
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