Free Walking Sightseeing Tour #5 in Gothenburg, Sweden

Stora Torp is a manor house in Örgryte, north of the Delsjö nature reserve, at Alfred Wigelius väg in Gothenburg Municipality, Sweden. The property has 9,600 square meters of area and 3,200 square meters of residential and office space. Stora Torp was originally a large country estate dating back to the 1550s. During the period 1550 to 1777 the property was called Torpit or Torpett and that "Jöns and Jon at Torpitt" were noble farmers there. They belonged to Sten Eriksson Leijonhufvud's farm Kärra, now Kärralund. After his bloody end in 1568, Kärra came to belong to his widow "Count Ebba." After "Count Ebbas", Stora Torp, like Lärjeholm, was owned by Field Marshal and Privy Councillor Herman Wrangel. The year 1625 is a year recorded in this context.

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Örgryte new church is a church in the gothic style on Svalberget. The church is a part of the Örgryte congregation in Gothenburg. Because of the nature of the plot, the church is oriented northeast–southwest. It has a cross layout with open rafters and vaulted, pentagonal chancels. The church tower is almost 60 meters tall.

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Universeum is a public science centre, zoo and public aquarium in Gothenburg, Sweden that opened in 2001. It is a part of Evenemangsstråket, the thoroughfare of events – close to Korsvägen and Skånegatan – which includes sights of interest like Scandinavium, Ullevi, Svenska Mässan, Liseberg and the Museum of World Culture.

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The National Museum of World Culture opened in Gothenburg, Sweden, in 2004. It is a part of the public authority Swedish National Museums of World Cultures and builds on the collections of the former Göteborgs Etnografiska Museum that closed down in the year 2000. Its aim is to interpret the subject of world culture in an interdisciplinary way. The museum is situated next to the Universeum science centre and the amusement park Liseberg, and close to Korsvägen. "The museum interprets the concept of world culture in a dynamic and open-ended manner. On the one hand, various cultures are incorporating impulses from each other and becoming more alike. On the other hand, local, national, ethnic and gender differences are shaping much of that process. World culture is not only about communication, reciprocity, and interdependence, but the specificity, concretion and uniqueness of each and every individual."

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The Sun Ring is a sculpture in aluminum bronze and granite by Claes Hake. The 4.4-metre-high ring was placed in 1993 in Renströmsparken in front of the Humanisten University building and the University Library in Gothenburg.

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Incantatio is a sculpture created in 1992 by Roland Borén, placed in front of the entrance to Artisten, a building used by the Academy of Music and Drama at the University of Gothenburg. It is made of welded, lacquered sheet steel.

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Gothenburg City Theatre opened in 1934 at Götaplatsen square in Gothenburg, Sweden. The theatre was designed by Swedish architect Carl Bergsten who gave the exterior a Neo-Classical look with a touch of Streamline Moderne. The critics thought it to be a too old-fashioned building – the International Style had a big breakthrough some years before at the 1930 Stockholm Exhibition. But the interiors of the building pleased the reviewers who thought the auditorium to be "intimate" and “democratic”. The theatre went through a major renovation some years ago and the auditorium was equipped with new technology and with new seats.

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Poseidon with a well tub or just Poseidon is a bronze sculpture that stands at Götaplatsen in central Gothenburg. The sculpture, which depicts the sea god Poseidon, was created by Carl Milles and was inaugurated in 1931. It is one of Gothenburg's most famous landmarks.

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The Lorensberg Theatre is a theatre building in Gothenburg, Sweden. It has the address Karl Gerhards Plats 1 and the property designation Lorensberg 29:2. The theatre was designed by the architect Karl M. Bengtson, the stage was designed by the German C. Roeder, and was built on the initiative of and partly financed by the restaurateur Sophus Petersen, who ran the restaurant in Lorensbergsparken at the time.

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Karin Boye is a bronze portrait sculpture by Peter Linde in two different designs, one in Gothenburg and one in Huddinge city centre.

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The Vasa Church is a church in Gothenburg, Sweden. It is located in the area of Vasastaden, between Hvitfeldtska gymnasiet and Vasaparken. It was founded in 1909 and is built in a Neo-Romanesque style, of granite that was brought from Bohuslän. It underwent major renovations during 1999 and 2000.

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Acceleration is an abstract sculpture in bronze and stone by Ida Isaksson-Sillén that stands in Vasaparken, Gothenburg. The sculpture has the shape of a faceted cylinder, the lower part of which is made of stone. The upper part, which is made of bronze, has a notch that runs in a helix-shaped spiral around the cylinder. This incision accelerates in such a way that it is initially (at the bottom) wide and shallow and becomes narrower and deeper, with tighter turns, the higher up it goes.

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Vasaparken is a park in Vasastaden, Gothenburg, Sweden.

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Workers' wife is a sculpture by Elma Oijens at Landala square in Gothenburg.

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The Raoul Wallenberg Monument, titled In Memory of Raoul Wallenberg's Deed, was erected near the Haga Church (Hagakyrkan) in Gothenburg, Sweden. It is a 2.45 meter high monument, made partly of graphic concrete and partly of bronze, and it was created by Charlotte Gyllenhammar of Stockholm, Sweden. It was unveiled on May 25, 2007 by the UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan.

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Atalante is a venue for theatrical performances in Gothenburg. It is located at Övre Husargatan 1, near Skanstorget, and was a cinema with the name Skansen from 1936 to 1986.

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Skansen Kronan is a redoubt on the hill Risåsberget, in the Haga district of Gothenburg, Sweden.

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The Shoreline memorial is a monument located in Slottsskogen, a large park in central Gothenburg, Sweden. The installation commemorates the location of the final reunion of the band Broder Daniel in 2008.

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