Bergen Helicopter tours

See all the sights from Helicopter Sightseeing Tours.  The remains of the quays, Bryggen, is a World Heritage Site. The city is an international centre for aquaculture, shipping, offshore petroleum industry and subsea technology, and a national centre for higher education, tourism and finance. Natives speak the distinct Bergensk dialect. The city features Bergen Airport, Flesland, the Bergen Light Rail and is the terminus of the Bergen Line; Bergen Port is Norway's busiest. The city centre and northern neighbourhoods are located on the shoreline of Byfjorden. Bergen is known as the city of The Seven Mountains. Seen best from Helicopter. "Bergen received status as a city during king Olav Kyrre's rule, according to later sources, in 1070 AD", says the encyclopedia Store norske leksikon. Gitte Hansen's 2004 Ph.D. dissertation proposes that "Bergen was founded as a handelsknutepunkt [a crossroads for trading] sometime during the 1020s or 1030s". Later, in a 2004 NRK article, she said that "A king decided at the start of the 11th century, that here a city ought to be."Furthermore she said that king Olav Kyrre "was not the first [king] to start building a city in Bergen. See the city that was built on part of a royal estate, Alrekstad from helicopter.