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Volvo Photo Locations Part 83 Vadstena slott (or Vadstena Castle in English) is a former Royal Castle in Vadstena near the lake Vättern. Vadstena Castle was originally built by King Gustav I in 1545 as a fortress to protect Stockholm from enemies from the south. The fortress consisted of three smaller stone buildings facing the […]

Volvo Photo Locations Part 70 Viktor Rydbergsgatan is a street in Lorensbergs Villastad, a residential area in Göteborg. The villas and townhouses are almost all built between 1913 and 1925. All but three buildings were of stone with brick facades, and all contained large dwellings, limited by building areas to max 400 square meters. They […]

Volvo Photo Locations Part 105 Arkaden in Göteborg is a populair shopping mall located at the corner of Östra Hamngatan-Södra Hamngatan in central Göteborg. The current Arkaden building was designed by architect Anders Tengbom Stockholm, and was inaugurated in October 1974. The first Arkaden-house, a theatrical, reddish brown brick building with towers and turrets, was […]

Volvo Photo Locations Part 98 Foresta is a hotel and conference facility on southern Lidingö. Foresta, originally called Villa Foresta including the building shown in the picture from 1915, was built for Wilhelmina Skogh as a private residence in the years 1908–1910 when she was CEO of the Grand Hôtel in Stockholm. The villa was […]

Volvo Photo Locations Part 64 Särö is a locality situated in Kungsbacka Municipality in Halland. It is located south of Göteborg on the Särö peninsula, and is famous for its golf and tennis history. Geographically, the peninsula marks the transition from the Bohuslän archipelago in the north and the long, flat Halland coast in the […]

Volvo Photo Locations Part 111 Langhammars Naturreservat is an area on Fårö, a small island north of Gotland. It is an area with limestone pillars, pebble beaches and dunes, together with a pine forest. Just over a kilometer south of Langhammars is one of Gotland’s best kept agrarian environments from the Middle Ages. The area […]

Volvo Photo Locations Part 87 Hammarby Sjöstad is a part of Stockholm municipality, currently undergoing major urban redevelopment. It is located on both side of lake Hammarby sjö, bordering Nacka Municipality to the east. The area is part of the districts Södermalm and Södra Hammarbyhamnen. Before the current redevelopment began, the area was known as […]

Volvo Photo Locations Part 86 Ullevi is a large stadium in Göteborg. The stadium was built for the 1958 FIFA World Cup, but since then Ullevi has also hosted the 1995 World Championships in Athletics and the 2006 European Championships in Athletics, the UEFA Cup Winners’ Cup finals in 1983 and 1990, the UEFA Euro […]

Volvo Photo Locations Part 109 Master Samuelsgatan is a street in the district Norrmalm in Stockholm. It extends east-west from Birl Jarlsgatan to Vasagatan and is about 1000 meters long. The name comes from the vicar of Klara and Bromma congregations named Samuel Hammarinus (who died in 1667). He owned a plot in the quarter […]

Volvo Photo Locations Part 80 Doktor Bex Gata is a street located on the Guldheden in Göteborg. The street is named in memory of Abraham Bex (who died in mid-October 1696) and who became a doctor of medicine in Utrecht (Netherlands) in 1680 and stadsfysikus (town doctor) in Göteborg around 1685. In this street there […]