Majorna
Old working-class district of stone-and-timber tenements, bay windows and leafy courtyards.
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About this audio guide
This guide to Majorna in Gothenburg is about the three-storey houses lining its streets, and the building rule written in the eighteen seventies to keep the city from burning. It follows a workers' building society, its leader Johannes Nilsson, and a county governor named Albert Ehrensvärd. Best heard on a pavement where you can see a full facade from the ground floor up.
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