Skansen Kronan
Baroque hilltop redoubt with an octagonal tower crowned in gilded copper, never once attacked.
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This guide to Skansen Kronan in Gothenburg starts with the gilded crown on top of its tower and asks why anyone would set a crown on a gun fort. It reaches back to the sixteen-eighties, to a young fortress city nervous about Denmark and the military engineer Erik Dahlbergh, who drew this redoubt on its hill. Later come prisoners, families short of homes, and a century of museum visitors. Best heard at the foot of the tower, where you can touch the stone.
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