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Volvo Photo Locations Part 112 These wonderfull photos of the 1933 Volvo Venus Bilo were made in the garden of Villa Roskull on Lidingö, near Stockholm. Like a mighty Vasaborg lies the splendid Villa Roskull on top of the Högudden with a great view over the Stockholm inlet. The villa was built in 1912, commissioned […]

Volvo Photo Locations Part 65 Vasabron (English: “The Vasa Bridge”) is a bridge over Norrström in central Stockholm, Sweden connecting Norrmalm to Gamla stan, the old city. The bridge is named after King Gustav Vasa (1496–1560), perhaps because of the vicinity to the statue of the king in front of the House of Knights. From […]

Volvo Photo Locations Part 85 Trolleholms slott is a castle in Svalöv Kommun in Skåne, in southern Sweden. The estate comprises 110 houses and a total of 12300 acres (5000 Hectare). Originally named Kattisnabbe and later Eriksholm, it has been known since 1424, and was a monastic estate in the late Middle Ages. Built in […]

Volvo Photo Locations Part 84 Örebro Slott is a medieval castle fortification in Örebro. It was expanded during the reign of the royal family Vasa (House of Vasa) and finally rebuilt about 1900. The castle lies on an island in river Svartån. Some of the rooms are used as classrooms for pupils from Karolinska Skolan. […]

Volvo Photo Locations Part 83 Vadstena slott (or Vadstena Castle in English) is a former Royal Castle in Vadstena near the lake Vättern. Vadstena Castle was originally built by King Gustav I in 1545 as a fortress to protect Stockholm from enemies from the south. The fortress consisted of three smaller stone buildings facing the […]

Volvo Photo Locations Part 70 Viktor Rydbergsgatan is a street in Lorensbergs Villastad, a residential area in Göteborg. The villas and townhouses are almost all built between 1913 and 1925. All but three buildings were of stone with brick facades, and all contained large dwellings, limited by building areas to max 400 square meters. They […]

Volvo Photo Locations Part 105 Arkaden in Göteborg is a populair shopping mall located at the corner of Östra Hamngatan-Södra Hamngatan in central Göteborg. The current Arkaden building was designed by architect Anders Tengbom Stockholm, and was inaugurated in October 1974. The first Arkaden-house, a theatrical, reddish brown brick building with towers and turrets, was […]

Volvo Photo Locations Part 98 Foresta is a hotel and conference facility on southern Lidingö. Foresta, originally called Villa Foresta including the building shown in the picture from 1915, was built for Wilhelmina Skogh as a private residence in the years 1908–1910 when she was CEO of the Grand Hôtel in Stockholm. The villa was […]

Volvo Photo Locations Part 64 Särö is a locality situated in Kungsbacka Municipality in Halland. It is located south of Göteborg on the Särö peninsula, and is famous for its golf and tennis history. Geographically, the peninsula marks the transition from the Bohuslän archipelago in the north and the long, flat Halland coast in the […]

Volvo Photo Locations Part 111 Langhammars Naturreservat is an area on Fårö, a small island north of Gotland. It is an area with limestone pillars, pebble beaches and dunes, together with a pine forest. Just over a kilometer south of Langhammars is one of Gotland’s best kept agrarian environments from the Middle Ages. The area […]