Evert Taubes Terrass

This guide to Evert Taubes Terrass in Stockholm tells the story of the bronze figure here, the songwriter Evert Taube, who points not at Stockholm's famous towers but toward Sodermalm, the ordinary neighborhood where he lived. It follows Taube from his 1890 birth on the small island of Vinga through years at sea and five years in Argentina, where he encountered the tango that shaped the roughly two hundred songs he later wrote. Listen for how the terrace itself, first built in the 1960s, came to carry his name.