Tantolunden

This guide to Tantolunden in Stockholm traces a shoreline sugar refinery built in 1857 by four rival Stockholm sugar boilers who merged when the Crimean War sent prices soaring, working with architect Johan Fredrik Åbom. It follows the factory's decline after 1956, when curved apartment blocks locals call the banana houses rose in its place, and the wooden garden cottages cut into the hillside after World War One for families who needed to grow food. Listen for the link between the refinery workers and the hillside above you.