Photo: Arve Kjersheim, the Directorate for Cultural Heritage
Inscribed on World Heritage List in 1980
Most of the town burned down in 1678 and 1679. The square-grid renaissance pattern of the town streets were kept when the town was rebuilt. The built-up area of Røros has developed slowly and without dramatic events, and can boast of representative buildings from 1700 and 1800 as well as buildings from our own century. Eighty buildings are protected according the Cultural Heritage Act. An extensive process to include also the surrounding landscape of the town in the Heritage Act is now taking place.