Brunnsparken
Oldest public park at the tram hub, crowned by a bronze sowing-woman fountain from the 1880s.
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This guide to Brunnsparken in Gothenburg starts with a close look at Johanna, the bronze sowing woman in the fountain, and then goes underground, to what archaeologists hit beneath her in twenty fifteen. It follows Värmland iron down rivers and lakes to this former canal islet, and the tax, guild fees and trade that moved through it. A nineteenth-century pharmacist with a mineral-water business turns up too. Best heard standing beside the fountain at the park's western end.
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