Stora Hamnkanalen
Seventeenth-century harbour canal with stone quays, lined by the old East India Company headquarters.
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About this audio guide
This guide to Stora Hamnkanalen, the Great Harbour Canal in Gothenburg, begins on a September day in seventeen forty-five, as the East Indiaman Götheborg comes home from China with the Swedish coast in sight. It follows the shallow canal dug in the sixteen-twenties, the barges that worked its stone quays, and the Swedish East India Company that set up on its bank. Best heard on the quay along Norra Hamngatan.
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