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Gamle Stavanger or Old Stavanger in English, is an area in the city with historic wooden buildings. It is propably Northern Europe's best preserved wooden house settlement with buildings which dates back to the end of the 1700s. For cruise tourists, this area is easy to find. From the cruise terminal the area is right in front of you and the first you meet when leaving the terminal. Many of the buildings are listed, but some are also restored to former glory - most of them white. In total there are more than 170 buildings in the area. As the picture above shows, there were no plan on how to place the buildings, each was built in the most suited place on the small plots. For visitors, it may look like a museum. But have in mind that people actually own the buildings and live in them. In the area you will also find the Norwegian Canning Museum which displays a typical factory from the 1920s. Like Bryggen in Bergen different forces wanted to demolish the area to build new and modern buildings here, but fortunately some strong voices spoke up and managed to keep and preserve a significant part of the area.