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Volvo Photo Locations Part 102 Bredgränd is an alley in Gamla stan in Stockholm. Stretching from Skeppsbron to Österlånggatan, it forms a parallel street to Skeppar Karls Gränd and Kråkgränd. Bredgränd appears in historical records as östan mur i bredha grandena (“east of the wall in the broad alley”) in 1476 and as Östre Bredgränden […]

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 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. […]