Järntorget
Lively city square named for an old iron-export scale, centred on a bronze five-continents fountain.
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This guide to Järntorget in Gothenburg begins on an October day in nineteen twenty-seven, when a new fountain of five bronze women first ran with water. It reaches back to the iron bars Sweden sold abroad, and to the scale by the quay that every export bar once had to pass. You will meet a merchant and shipowner who never saw the fountain, and the question of who pays to remember a trade. Stand close to the basin rim to follow along.
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