Klippan Cultural Reserve
Riverside industrial heritage quarter around the ruins of a medieval border fortress.
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About this audio guide
This guide to Klippan in Gothenburg stands you on the rock where Old Älvsborg castle once guarded the river mouth, and goes back to May sixteen twelve, when the Danish king's guns opened fire on it. It follows Olof Stråle, the castle's commander, through the siege and into the Stockholm courtrooms that came after. Start beside the fortress ruins under their canopy near the southern foot of the Älvsborg Bridge.
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