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Volvo Photo Locations Part 45 The Gothenburg Opera, Swedish: Göteborgsoperan, is the opera house in Göteborg. The Gothenburg Opera house is relatively new: construction started in September 1989 after significant local commitment in the late 1980s (with as many as 6,000 contributors to the new house) and it was completed with great speed. The building […]

Volvo Photo Locations Part 44 Mölle Utsikten is located on Italienska vägen at Kullaberg in Mölle, Skåne in Sweden. Kullaberg is a nature reserve situated on a peninsula of land protruding into the Kattegat in Höganäs Kommun near the town of Mölle in southwest Sweden. Kullen lighthouse, designed by architect Magnus Dahlander in 1898, is […]

Volvo Photo Locations Part 43 View from Manövergången, Eriksberg to Älvsborgsbron and Göta älv. The Älvsborgsbron is a suspension bridge over Göta älv in Göteborg, Sweden, which connects the north and the south part of the city. It was built in 1966 and designed by Sven Olof Asplund. The total length of the bridge is […]

Volvo Photo Locations Part 42 Skeppsholmsbron is located in central Stockholm, connecting Blasieholmen to Skeppsholmen. It was the first ‘forging iron bridge’ to be constructed in Sweden, manufactured by Motala Verkstad in 1861. The first bridge to connect Skeppsholmen to the rest of the city was a wooden bridge on poles, simply called Holmbron and […]

Volvo Photo Locations Part 41 Stora Badhusgatan is a street close to the harbor in Göteborg from Södra Hamngatan to Surbrunnsgatan. The street was named in 1852 and was located between a former bathhouse and Keiller’s machine shop. Originally the street was named Bastugatan after probably the former Badstugubastionen near Verkstadsgatan and Skeppsbron. The name […]

Volvo Photo Locations Part 40 Heden, originally Exercisheden, is a district in central Göteborg, close to Ullevi and the city center. Today, parking is often the main function of this place, besides the sport fields for football or bandy. The church in the background is from the Catholic community in Göteborg. The Catholic parish of […]

Volvo Photo Locations Part 39 HSB Turning Torso is the tallest skyscraper in Sweden and the Nordic countries, situated in Malmö, Sweden, located on the Swedish side of the Öresund strait. It was designed by the Spanish architect Santiago Calatrava and officially opened on 27 August 2005. The tower reaches a height of 190 metres […]

Volvo Photo Locations Part 38 Postgatan is one of the oldest streets in Göteborg. Postgatan was renamed several times, originally the street was named Heringsgatan (from the german Hering, haring) until 1671, but the name changed later to the Sillgatan, which was the name until 1895. The street was the large emigration street in Sweden, […]

Volvo Photo Locations Part 37 Lindholmen Science Park is an international collaborative environment for research, innovation and education within the areas Transport, ICT and Media. The district is located in Gothenburg, Sweden, on the island of Hisingen on the northern shore of Göta Älv. The Lindholmen district area is 104 hectares. In this area, campuses […]

Volvo Photo Locations Part 36 Smögen is a coast village situated in Sotenäs Municipality, Västra Götaland County, Sweden with 1,329 inhabitants in 2010. It is one of the liveliest “summer towns” of the Swedish West Coast. The community consists of several islands that lay close together that the space in between has since been filled, […]