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Port Fòrum at Moll de les Escaldes and Moll de la Vela in Barcelona – ES 🇪🇸

International Volvo Photo Locations Part 378 Port Fòrum with its great stairs is located at Moll de les Escaldes in Sant Adrià de Besòs, Barcelona. The Parc del Fòrum is located on the waterfront at the northernmost end of the city. The park was built for the 2004 Universal Forum of Cultures. It isn’t a […]

Duinhuys in West aan Zee on Terschelling – NL 🇳🇱

International Volvo Photo Locations Part 377 On the Wadden Island of Terschelling, in the village of West aan Zee, Achterbosch Zantman architects, hidden in the dune landscape, has realized a recreation house with a view of the North Sea. The basement is half hidden in the dune, so that the volume merges with the rolling […]

Kranen i Kville on Lundby Hamngata in Göteborg 🇸🇪

Volvo Photo Locations Part 325 Kranen i Kville is located at Lundby Hamngata in Lundbyhamnen on Hisingen in Göteborg. On behalf of the Port of Gothenburg, the post-war period was characterized by the expansion at Hisingen. First out of the new port sections was Lundbyhamnen, which was inaugurated in 1951. It was then a modern […]

Södra Strandgatan in Lycke 🇸🇪

Volvo Photo Locations Part 324 Södra Strandgatan is a road in Lycke, also known as country road 168. Länsväg 168 runs between Kungälv and Marstrand in Bohuslän. Length 27 km. The road goes through, among others, the communities of Ytterby, Kroken and the resorts Vävra, Risby, Guddeby, Tjuvkil and ends at Koön in Marstrand. The […]

Rökan island in Lycke 🇸🇪

Volvo Photo Locations Part 323 Rökan is a small island between Instön and Vrångholmen. It is connected with these islands through the Instöbron or Instöbridge. The small island of Rökan next to Vrångholmen, at Instöbron’s southern landholding, offers swimming, fishing and nature experiences. In the area there is parking space, kiosk, toilets, bathing stairs and […]

Instöbron near Marstrand 🇸🇪

Volvo Photo Locations Part 322 Instöbron or Instöbridge is a bridge connecting Vrångholmen and Instön near Marstrand in Kungälv Kommun, north of Göteborg, Sweden. Instön is an island near Marstrand in Bohuslän. The name refers to that Instön is the innermost of the major Marstrand Islands. The area is 3.6 square kilometers. The settlement on […]

Varvskajen on Hedvigsholmen in Marstrand 🇸🇪

Volvo Photo Locations Part 321 Hedvigsholmen is a fortified islet in Marstrand harbor. It was originally called Fiskholmen but was named Hedvigsholmen a few years after Bohuslän became Swedish (1658), and was later also called Kvarnholmen. The Fiskholmsskansen was a masonry redutt , which the Danes started to build but had not completed when Bohuslän […]

Marstrands Varv at Varvskajen in Marstrand 🇸🇪

Volvo Photo Locations Part 320 Marstrands Varv at Varvskajen is located on Hedvigsholmen near Marstrand in Kungälv, Sweden. Marstrand’s Mechanical Workshop , was a shipyard at Hedvigsholmen in Marstrand, which was built as a repair yard at the end of the 19th century, with corporation formation in 1904, by August Andersson and Bertil Egnell (1878–1956). […]

Mihama Promenade in Mihama-ku ward of Chiba City near Tokyo – JPN 🇯🇵

International Volvo Photo Locations Part 376 Mihama Promenade is located in Mihama-ku in Chiba near Tokyo in Japan. Makuhari Messe (幕張メッセ) is a Japanese convention center outside Tokyo, located in the Mihama-ku ward of Chiba city, in the northwest corner of Chiba prefecture. Designed by Fumihiko Maki, it is easily accessible by Tokyo’s commuter rail […]

Muzenplein in The Hague – NL 🇳🇱

International Volvo Photo Locations Part 375 Muzenplein is located in The Hague, The Netherlands. In Greek mythology, the muses, nine in number, were the goddesses of arts and science. Led by the god Apollo, they used to sing hymns to the gods at the top of Mount Parnassus. The Resident is a large-scale urban development […]