Stavanger

Norway

Stavanger is a city on the southwest coast of Norway, the country's oil capital and fourth-largest city. Founded in the Viking age, it preserves Scandinavia's best wooden old town. Attractions include Gamle Stavanger's 18th-century white cottages, the 12th-century cathedral, the Petroleum Museum, the canning museum in a sardine factory, the colorful Øvre Holmegate street, and excursions to the Lysefjord's Preikestolen — Pulpit Rock — and Kjerag boulder.