Kungsportsavenyen
Broad nineteenth-century boulevard of terraces, bars and restaurants leading up to a grand cultural square.
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This guide to Kungsportsavenyen, known as Avenyn, in Gothenburg begins in the early 1980s, under a rule called mattvång that tied every drink in the city to a plate of food. It covers the street's origins in Sweden's first town planning competition in 1861, the merchants who strolled it, and Carl Milles' sea god Poseidon at Götaplatsen. Best heard standing on the pavement, looking along its width.
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