Brännö
Car-free archipelago island famed for its summer dances on a seaside pier facing the open sea.
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About this audio guide
This audio guide to Brännö, a car-free island in the Gothenburg archipelago, follows a summer dance on a wooden pier and the nineteen forty-one waltz by Lasse Dahlquist that made it famous across Sweden. It touches on the songwriter's childhood summers here and on the golden age of the country's open-air dance floors in the thirties and forties. Best heard down at Husvik on the southern shore, looking out toward the Vinga lighthouse.
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