Haga Nygata
Pedestrian café street of old wooden houses, famed for plate-sized cinnamon buns and fika.
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This guide to Haga Nygata in Gothenburg starts on the fourth of October, Sweden's Cinnamon Bun Day, and asks where a national ritual really comes from. It meets the people who set the date, an ethnologist with a theory about nostalgia, and the café at number twenty-eight whose giant bun locals treat as almost sacred. It also turns to the wooden houses of a poor working district and the neighbours who organised to keep them standing.
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