Wooden Heart on Tromsøya
Today Tromsø (once called the "Paris of the North") is a large village inhabited by 60,000+ souls that, despite its rapid growth in recent decades, has preserved almost intact the charm of its historic center of almost entirely different colored wooden houses whose height rarely exceeds 2-3 floors. Located entirely on the island of Tromsøya (connected to the mainland by bridges) downtown Tromso center combines modernist buildings with the aforementioned wooden buildings whose construction date, in some cases, from the late eighteenth century. Despite the fire of 1969 all the guides of the region, say that the historical center of Tromsø has the highest and most notable the concentration of wooden buildings in Scandinavia.