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Volvo Photo Locations Part 101 1972 – Original US advertisement (click to enlarge) Österlånggatan is a street in Gamla stan, the old town of Stockholm, Sweden. Stretching southward from Slottsbacken to Järntorget, it forms a parallel street to Baggensgatan and Skeppsbron. Major sights include the statue of Saint George and the Dragon on Köpmanbrinken and […]

Volvo Photo Locations Part 100 Strömgatan is a street in central Stockholm. On Strömgatan walking, you’ll pass a number of interesting historical sites and buildings. Walking man Strömgatan from east to the west leads past the Strömbron and Karl XII:s torg, then tangent to the Kungliga Operan and Gustav Adolfs torg with Arvfurstens palats. Here […]

Volvo Photo Locations Part 99 Bohus fästning lies along the old Norwegian – Swedish border in Kungälv, Bohuslän north east from Hisingen where the Göta river splits into two branches (20 kilometres north of Göteborg). It commands its surroundings from a cliff 40 metres high, with the river forming a natural moat around it. Bohus […]

Volvo Photo Locations Part 52 Restaurant Sturehof is a dynamic and generous scene where we serve classical food of finest quality, with focus on seafood. Sturehof is a high class restaurant, without being luxurious, available for a wide range of people. Steeped in tradition, Sturehof is at the same time a modern restaurant classic on […]

Volvo Photo Locations Part 92 The Drottningholms slott (or Drottningholm Palace) is the private residence of the Swedish royal family. It is located in Drottningholm. It is built on the island Lovön (in Ekerö Municipality of Stockholm County), and is one of Sweden’s Royal Palaces. It was originally built in the late 16th century. It […]

Volvo Photo Locations Part 91 Sveavägen is a major street in Vasastan and Norrmalm in Stockholm, Sweden. The street starts at Sergels torg in the city center and goes north out of the city towards the Haga Park. It is today often known as the busiest road in Sweden. More information on sv.wikipedia.org

Volvo Photo Locations Part 90 Skårsgatan is a street in the city district Örgryte in Göteborg, on the east side of the E6 motorway. In 1922 the kommun Örgrytte merged with the city Göteborg. The area is characterized by many luxurious villas. In this street on number 70, the villa pictured above, lived Helmer Pettersson, […]

Volvo Photo Locations Part 115 Direktörsvilla (or Director villa) is today the oldest surviving building in the Trädgårdsföreningen in Göteborg (or Göteborg Horticultural Society). It was built in 1847 by the city architect Loren Wilhelm Brandenburg as home for the chief gardener. The building also contained upstairs the first seed shop of the Trädgårdsföreningen. The […]

Volvo Photo Locations Part 114 Basarbron (or Basar Bridge) is a bridge over the Vallgraven in Göteborg, which connects Kungstorget with Kungsparken. The bridge was built in 1857 and named in 1883 after the bazaar building that was on Kungstorget during the years 1850-1966. It was originally a wooden bridge on wooden piles, which were […]

Volvo Photo Locations Part 113 Åre Bergbana is a funicular railway located in Åre, Sweden. It is 790 metres long and runs between the town square at 398 metres and Fjällgården at 556 metres. The funicular was built as the first fixed link up to the mountain by Von Roll from 1908 to 1910 at […]