Skansen Lejonet
Hilltop redoubt of the late sixteen-hundreds with seven-metre walls, crowned by a copper lion.
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This audio guide to Skansen Lejonet in Gothenburg follows a hilltop fortress raised in the sixteen-eighties against a Danish threat, on a rock where Danish forces had already destroyed a castle twice. You'll meet Erik Dahlbergh, the military engineer who cut it out of the stone, and the king who came to see the work. Best heard standing at the foot of the tower.
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