the staue for Karl IX
the Johanna Fountain in Brunnsparken
the Skanskaskrapan's observation deck provides for nice views of the city
on our way to the Skanskaskrapan.
theViking is a four-masted barque build in 1906 as a training ship for the Danish merchant fleet
old fishing boats in the harbor of Klippan
a replica of the original Swedish East India Company ship Götheborg from 1738
the seaman's wife at Sjömanstornet
the old Merkur building
the statue for Gustaf II Adolfs at his own square
King Gustaf II Adolf had great plans for Sweden and himself and he needed a harbor with direct access to the North
Sea.
For that purpose he founded a city where the Göta älv river flows in the Kattegat and named it
Gothenburg.
Layout and construction
was done by Dutch engineers, who used the canals and streetplan of
Batavia as reference.
Today Gothenburg is Scandinavia's biggest seaport
and Sweden's second-largest city with half a million inhabitants.
Gothenburg has two universities and host many film and music festivals.
Its
proud citizens feel more European then Stockholm at Sweden's eastcoast.
Points of interest are the 22 story red-white
Skanskaskrapan, the Opera, the Haga district, the Älvsborg Bridge, and the old town of Klippan.
We visited Gothenburg in July
2016.
we were not really impressed by the Opera building
the harbor at Lilla Bommen
one of the original canals
the Älvsborg Bridge from 1966 has a main span of 417 meters
here comes our boat for the harbor tour
