Kronhuset
Red-brick seventeenth-century arsenal whose pillarless hall once hosted Sweden's parliament.
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This guide to Kronhuset in Gothenburg drops you into the winter of 1660, when King Charles X Gustav summoned Sweden's parliament to a red-brick arsenal built for cannons and siege grain. It follows the Dutch engineering trick hidden in the building's walls and roof, and the anxious weeks of a royal succession. Best heard standing beside the long wall, where you can count the buttresses.
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