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Vasagatan (Gothenburg)
Vasagatan is a major street in central Gothenburg named after King Gustav Vasa. It stretches from Sprängkullsgatan in west to Heden in east. Along it are well known establishments like the Röhsska Museum, University of Gothenburg The University of Gothenburg () is a List of universities in Sweden, university in Sweden's second largest city, Gothenburg. Founded in 1891, the university is the third-oldest of the current List of universities in Sweden#Public universities, S ... and Gothenburg School of Economics and Commercial Law. The street is known for its many cafés, and it has several restaurants. It is said to have the most dense bicycle traffic in Gothenburg. The street crosses Kungsportsavenyn, and this crossing is the midpoint of nightlife in Gothenburg. Roads in Sweden Streets in Gothenburg {{sweden-road-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Göteborg Vasagatan
Gothenburg ( ; ) is the List of urban areas in Sweden by population, second-largest city in Sweden, after the capital Stockholm, and the fifth-largest in the Nordic countries. Situated by the Kattegat on the west coast of Sweden, it is the gubernatorial seat of Västra Götaland County, with a population of approximately 600,000 in the city proper and about 1.1 million inhabitants in Metropolitan Gothenburg, the metropolitan area. Gustavus Adolphus, King Gustavus Adolphus founded Gothenburg by royal charter in 1621 as a heavily fortified, primarily Dutch, trading colony. In addition to the generous privileges given to his Dutch allies during the ongoing Thirty Years' War, e.g. tax relaxation, he also attracted significant numbers of his German and Scottish allies to populate his only town on the western coast; this trading status was furthered by the founding of the Swedish East India Company. At a key strategic location at the mouth of the , where Scandinavia's largest dr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
