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Volvo Photo Locations Part 96 Kopparbunken is a building with a copper outside at the Chalmer University campus in Göteborg. It can be found at the Elektrovägen. In Swedish the name Kopparbunken can be split into two parts, koppar and bunken. Koppar means copper and bunken means bowl. So in English one could translate it […]

Volvo Photo Locations Part 103 Central Station, Göteborgs centralstation or Göteborg C is the main railway station of Göteborg. The station serves 27 million passengers per year, making it the second largest railway station in Sweden after Stockholm Central Station. The station opened in October the 4th, 1858. The station is situated at Drottningtorget. Numerous […]

Volvo Photo Locations Part 89 Klippan is an area at the Älvstranden in the western part of Göteborg, close to the Älvsborgsbron. Klippan is located in the city part Majorna. The name is derived from the little mountain “Lilla Klippan” or “Skinnareklippan”, which is located north east of the old Gamla Älvsborgs fästning. On this […]

Volvo Photo Locations Part 95 Gina Tricot HK is located in Borås, Sweden. The headquarters is an inspiring all-glass building, designed by architect Gert Wingårdh. Around 200 employees work here, working in everything from fashion design to marketing and finance. Borås combines all the wealth of choice of a big city with the convenience of […]

Volvo Photo Locations Part 88 Norrmalmstorg is a square in central Stockholm. The square connects shopping streets Hamngatan and Biblioteksgatan and is the starting point for tram travellers with the Djurgården line. Close to the southwest is the park Kungsträdgården. In the Swedish edition of Monopoly, Norrmalmstorg is the most expensive lot. The square is […]

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 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 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 […]

Volvo Photo Locations Part 51 Smögen is mentioned for the first time towards the end of the 16th Century. The name of the community has varied over the years; amongst other names, from “Smögit”, “Smöenn”, “Smöget” and “Smygesund”. The name has probably come from the Swedish word “smyghål”, which translates as “sneak-hole” or “nook”, referring […]

Volvo Photo Locations Part 50 Svinö is an island and a nature reserve in Kalmar municipality in Småland. The area has been protected since 1974 and is 120 hectares in size, of which 70 hectares are water areas. It is located east of the city ​​of Kalmar at the western stronghold of the Öland Bridge. […]