Saltholmen
Rocky seaside peninsula with a century-old cold bathhouse, sauna and archipelago ferry terminal.
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About this audio guide
This guide to Saltholmen in Gothenburg follows Viktor Balck, the army colonel who came to this shore in the summer of nineteen oh eight to open its new bathhouses alongside Sweden's Olympic swimmers. It reaches back to the idea that seized him in the eighteen seventies, and to the clubs, games and committees he built around it. Stand near the water's edge, where the old island meets the embankment that tied it to the mainland.
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