Vitabergsparken

This guide to Vitabergsparken in Stockholm traces the hill's shift from bare granite crowded by a slaughterhouse, brewery and textile mill to a workers' park carved into the rock in 1888. It follows the falu-red cottages preserved from the old working quarter, Sofia Church atop the northwestern peak, and the allotment gardens reformer Anna Lindhagen championed from 1906. Listen for the open-air theatre built into the natural stone bowl by park director Holger Blom in 1954.