Mosebacketerrassen

This guide to Mosebacketerrassen in Stockholm opens with a broke, furious young August Strindberg climbing this bluff around 1879 and turning the view into the opening scene of The Red Room, his first great novel. It traces the older pleasure garden that stood here a century earlier, the 1857 fire that destroyed some twenty-five buildings, and the theater and terrace built from the ashes. It closes at the bronze statue raised in 1975, a century after the novel, sculpted by Carl Eldh near the rail, facing the same skyline Strindberg once did.