Tromsø
The largest city in northern Norway, a university town and the capital of the northern lights from September to March. See the Arctic Cathedral (1965) and the Fjellheisen cable car, which climbs to 421 m above the city.
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Troms: what to see, where to go
Around Tromsø, the big city of the Norwegian Arctic: northern lights in winter, midnight sun in summer.
Information checked on 10 October 2026.
Worth seeing
Senja
Mainland Norway's second-largest island (1,586 km²), linked to the mainland by the Finnsnes bridge. In the north-west, sharp peaks and deep fjords, including the famous Segla; in the south-west, Ånderdalen National Park.
The Lyngen Alps
A range almost 80 km long on the Lyngen peninsula, east of Tromsø: some fifty peaks over 1,300 m, about 140 glaciers and Jiehkkevárri (1,834 m), the county's highest point. A major ski-touring area in spring; a protected landscape since 2004.
Polar Park, Bardu
Opened in 1994 in the Salangsdalen valley, the world's northernmost wildlife park shows wolves, bears, lynx, wolverines, elk, reindeer and musk oxen in large enclosures (110 hectares).
Photos
- Tromsø — Godot13, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
- Senja — kallerna, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
- The Lyngen Alps — Algkalv (talk), Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons (cropped)
- Polar Park, Bardu — Wolfgang Hägele, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons