Yellow houses
On wooden piers.
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Nusfjord is a fishing village on the southern shore of the island of Flakstadøya in the Lofoten archipelago in northern Norway, looking out on the Vestfjorden. It lies about 17 km in a straight line from the town of Leknes. Nusfjord is one of Norway's oldest and best-preserved fishing villages, with fishing carried on here since the mid-19th century. In 1975, UNESCO's European Architectural Heritage Year, it was chosen as one of three pilot projects in Norway for preserving unique wooden-house settings. Some claim it is on the World Heritage List, but this is not correct. Yellow and red wooden houses and warehouses ring a small, narrow bay, standing on wooden piers over the water beneath steep rocky mountains. Dried cod hangs from wooden racks, and gulls perch on the roof edges. The village is small and can be explored on foot in an hour or two, and part of it now runs as a resort. In the polar winter the sun stays below the horizon from 8 December to 4 January.
On wooden piers.
On the racks.
Around the bay.
Flakstadøya island, Flakstad Municipality, Lofoten, Norway
No, it was a 1975 UNESCO pilot project.
One to two hours.