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Gothenburg's largest shopping centre (8th largest in Sweden), Nordstan, is located in central Gothenburg. [102] The Haga district. Gothenburg's Haga district is known for its picturesque wooden houses [98] and its cafés serving the well-known Haga bulle – a large cinnamon roll similar to the kanelbulle. [103]
Coat of arms of Gothenburg.The lion is symbolic of Götaland, [1] and its shield bears the Three Crowns, the national emblem of Sweden.. The history of Gothenburg (Swedish: Göteborg) begins with the foundation of the city in 1621, although by that time people had already been living in the area for thousands of years, since the Neolithic Period, and moreover there had already been a series of ...
Gothenburg Central Station (Swedish: Göteborgs centralstation, Göteborg C) is the main railway station of Gothenburg and it is the oldest railway station in Sweden still in use. [1] The station serves 27 million passengers per year, [ 2 ] making it the second largest railway station in Sweden after Stockholm Central Station which it predates ...
Göteborgs-Posten is published in Gothenburg, [5] containing coverage of local, regional, national and international issues. It is chiefly distributed in western Götaland . The stated position of the editorial page is liberal (which in Sweden means center-right ).
Gothenburg Tercentennial Jubilee Exposition held; Göteborgs Konsthall built. Gothenburg Botanical Garden, [17] Liseberg amusement park, Gothenburg Natural History Museum , and Slottsskogsvallen open. 1926 - August: 1926 Women's World Games held. 1934 - Gothenburg City Theatre building opens. [14] 1936 - Gothenburg city hall building expanded. [18]
Gothenburg previously had 20 boroughs, but after a decision in the municipal assembly in January 2010 some of the boroughs were merged, leaving a total of 10 boroughs. The merge were implemented on 1 January 2011. Each "borough" is divided into a number of officially defined residential districts (Swedish: primärområden). There are 94 districts.
Joseph Chamberlain took an interest in the Gothenburg system and proposed a version of it to a Parliamentary Select Committee on Intemperance in 1877. [12] This did not gain momentum but the issue was raised again in the 1890s by the Bishop of Chester, Francis Jayne, who wrote letters to The Times and published articles on the subject. [13]
Gothenburg Municipality (Göteborgs kommun or Göteborgs stad) is a municipality in Västra Götaland County in western Sweden. Its seat is located in the city of Gothenburg . When the first Swedish local government acts were implemented in 1863 the City of Gothenburg, founded and chartered in 1621, became a city municipality with an elected ...