St. Hanshaugen Park

St. Hanshaugen Park is situated between Geitmyrsveien, Colletts gate, Ullevålsveien and Knud Knudsens plass.

[1] St. Hanshaugen Park has a mixture of intimate and romantic areas together with rolling hills which provide picturesque and scenic views to downtown Oslo.

St. Hanshaugen Park is also the site of Kongene på Haugen festivalen, an annual local music festival.

During the 1840s, inhabitants of Oslo began to use the site of the future park as location for their Midsummer Eve bonfire.

St. Hans is a Norwegian term for Midsummer Eve while haugen (from Old Norse haugr) refers to a hill.

St. Hanshaugen Park in Oslo
Tårnhuset at St. Hanshaugen Park
View from top of St. Hanshaugen Park
Map of St. Hanshaugen Park (1917)