Götaplatsen
Cultural square crowned by a seven-metre bronze sea god, flanked by museum, theatre and concert hall.
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About this audio guide
This guide to Götaplatsen in Gothenburg starts on a September evening in nineteen thirty-one, when some twenty thousand people crowded the square to see Carl Milles unveil his bronze Poseidon. It follows how the city took to its new sea god, the gossip that has clung to him ever since, and the sculptor caught in the middle. Best heard standing by the rim of the fountain basin.
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