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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 94 Lilla Bommen is a marina in the city center of Göteborg, at the edge of the Göta Älv, but also the name of a large area of ​​land around the harbor. The port is considered to originate in the 1640. At the west side of the marina lies the Göteborg […]

Volvo Photo Locations Part 90 Skårsgatan is a street in the city district Örgryte in Göteborg, on the east side of the E6 motorway. In 1922 the kommun Örgrytte merged with the city Göteborg. The area is characterized by many luxurious villas. In this street on number 70, the villa pictured above, lived Helmer Pettersson, […]

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 114 Basarbron (or Basar Bridge) is a bridge over the Vallgraven in Göteborg, which connects Kungstorget with Kungsparken. The bridge was built in 1857 and named in 1883 after the bazaar building that was on Kungstorget during the years 1850-1966. It was originally a wooden bridge on wooden piles, which were […]

Volvo Photo Locations Part 48 Maskinkajen is located in Eriksberg at Hisingen near the water, west of the Hotel 11. Here new houses and offices are created in recent years. Designed by Arkitekturkompaniet in 1998. Eriksberg is an area on Hisingen where Eriksbergs Mekaniska Verkstads AB had their shipyard until bankruptcy in 1979. For over […]

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 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 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 […]