Styrsö
Car-free archipelago island of fishing villages, sea-captain houses and an old bathing resort shore.
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This guide to Styrsö, in Gothenburg's southern archipelago, begins at Bratten in the early eighteen hundreds, with a woman named Helena Öberg and the inn she and her husband made out of an old herring salting works. It follows how a car-free fishing island learned to play, through bath houses, a grand restaurant and the city merchants who summered here. Best heard on the shore at Bratten, looking toward the old villas.
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