Gothenburg City Hall
Seventeenth-century stone town hall joined to a celebrated functionalist wing beside a canal.
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This guide to Gothenburg City Hall on Gustaf Adolfs torg follows the money behind the building, starting in sixteen sixty-nine when a fire left the young city needing a stone town hall it could not afford. You'll hear about Dutch bricks, the local merchants and magistrates who fronted the cash, and the traders who later set up shop downstairs. Best heard standing on the square, facing the older columned front.
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