Lillehammer

Lillehammer is a town and municipality in Innlandet county, Norway. It is part of the traditional region of Gudbrandsdal. The administrative centre of the municipality is the town of Lillehammer.

Town
The town centre is a late nineteenth-century concentration of wooden houses, which enjoys a picturesque location overlooking the northern part of Lake Mjøsa and the Lågen River, surrounded by mountains.

Lillehammer hosted the 1994 Winter Olympics and 2016 Winter Youth Olympics. Before Oslo's withdrawal from consideration, it was included as part of a bid to host events in the 2022 Winter Olympics if Oslo were to win the rights to hold the Games.