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Historic Volvo Protoype re-discovered! At the Retro Auto & Moto Galicia 2015 which was held in Vigo (Spain) between march 20 and 22, a unique Volvo prototype from the early seventies was discovered, images appeared at a spanish Volvo Forum. This prototype is the Volvo 1800 ESC, alson knaown as Volvo Viking, a protoype built […]

International Volvo Photo Locations Part 158 Tarragona’s beaches are renowned for their extremely fine, golden sand: hence the region’s name, “Costa Daurada”, which means “Golden Coast” in Catalan. The sand is soft and smooth and will mould to your body, such that all you need to sunbathe is a towel to keep the grains from […]

International Volvo Photo Locations Part 157 Beeckestijn is a historical buitenplaats dating from the 18th century in a park by the same name in Velsen-Zuid, Netherlands. The Beeckestijn site was a buitenplaats in the 15th and 16th centuries before the current English-style garden was designed in the 18th century. The house and the accompanying gardens […]

Volvo Photo Locations Part 161 Olof Wijksgatan is a street in Lorensbergs villastad or Lorensbergs residential area in Göteborg, close to Lyckans väg. The villas and a terraced houses are almost all built between 1913 and 1925. All but three buildings have stone with brick facades, and all contained large dwellings to 400 square meters. […]

International Volvo Photo Locations Part 156 The Internationales Maritimes Museum Hamburg (International Maritime Museum) is a private museum in the HafenCity quarter of Hamburg, Germany. The museum houses Peter Tamm’s collection of model ships, construction plans, uniforms, and maritime art, amounting to over 40,000 items and more than one million photographs. It opened in a […]

International Volvo Photo Locations Part 155 The Oslo Opera House (Norwegian: Operahuset) is the home of The Norwegian National Opera and Ballet, and the national opera theatre in Norway. The building is situated in the Bjørvika neighborhood of central Oslo, at the head of the Oslofjord. It is operated by Statsbygg, the government agency which […]

Volvo Photo Locations Part 160 Tjolöholm Castle (Swedish: Tjolöholms slott) is a country house, built 1898-1904, in Kungsbacka, Halland, Sweden. It is located on a peninsula in the Kungsbacka Fjord on the Kattegat coast. Tjoloholm Castle was designed in the Arts and Crafts style by architect Lars Israel Wahlmann. In 2010, Danish film director Lars […]

Volvo Photo Locations Part 159 Visby Airport (IATA: VBY, ICAO: ESSV), is located about 3.5 kilometres north of the city of Visby at Gotland in Sweden. Visby airport is Gotland’s only commercial airport and the 12th largest airport in Sweden. The airport had 340,393 passengers in 2011. The traffic has a large seasonal variation with […]

Volvo Photo Locations Part 158 Wieselgrensplatsen is a square in the districts Brämaregården and Rambergsstaden on Hisingen in Göteborg, named after Peter Wieselgren. At Wieselgrensplatsen you’ll find the Lundby Hospital. The blocks around it consists of Landshövdingehus. The square belongs to the more central parts of Hisingen. Peter Wieselgren, born 1 October 1800 in Vislanda […]

Volvo Photo Locations Part 157 The building pictured above is the Bergslagen Line station in Göteborg at Bergslagsgatan 2, also known as the white house. It was built between 1879 and 1881 for the Bergslagen Railways, designed by the brothers Axel and Hjalmar Kumlien. The station building was opened October 1, 1881 and is a […]