Fiskebrygga ( en, The Fish Wharf) is a former fish landing in the city of

Kristiansand Kristiansand is a seaside resort city and municipality in Agder county, Norway. The city is the fifth-largest and the municipality the sixth-largest in Norway, with a population of around 112,000 as of January 2020, following the incorporation ...

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county,

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. The buildings have been redeveloped as a restaurant, shopping area, and tourist destination. The former fish landing extends along both sides of ''Gravane Canal'', the canal that separates the town centre, '' Kvadraturen'', from the island of

Odderøya Odderøya is an island and neighborhoods in Kristiansand municipality in Agder county, Norway. The island lies immediately to the south of the city centre of Kristiansand and it is connected to the mainland by four bridges. The island creates a ...

. It was extensively reconstructed in the 1990s, with wood-fronted buildings in an old-fashioned style similar to the warehouses, painted

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and red, as well as housing, shops, and a number of restaurants. There are wooden piers on both sides of Gravane Canal, where there is a bustling boat traffic in summer, and bridges over the canal give the area an almost Venetian look. The area has since experienced a renaissance. The Fish Market at Fiskebrygga is one of the city's tourist attractions, selling all kinds of Norwegian fish and shellfish, including some live. ''

Kirkens Bymisjon Church City Mission (Norwegian: ''Kirkens Bymisjon'') is a diaconal foundation in Norway doing social work within alcohol care, elderly care, child welfare, mental health care and among prostitutes - as well as religious activities with pastoral ca ...

'' (The

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's City Mission) has its "Wharf

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", along with a café and bike repair shop "the pedal" on Fiskebrygga.Kirkens Bymisjon, Kristiansand
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