Facts About Haga Haga is a city district in Gothenburg, Sweden, renowned for its picturesque wooden houses, 19th century-atmosphere, and cafés. Haga has a population of about 4,000 people, as of 2016. Originally a working-class suburb of the city with a rather bad reputation, it was gradually transformed into a popular visiting place for tourists […]
Facts About Gothenburg Botanical Garden The Gothenburg Botanical Garden was inaugurated in 1923 when Gothenburg celebrated its 300th anniversary. The City of Gothenburg handed over the operation of the Garden to Region Västra Götaland Regional Council in 1998. As many as 16,000 plant species can be seen out-of-doors as well as 4,000 species in the […]
Facts About Gothenburg Gothenburg is the second-largest Swedish city, after Stockholm. Gothenburg city hosts the Gothia Cup, the world’s largest youth football tournament, and the Göteborg Basketball Festival, Europe’s largest youth basketball tournament. Gothenburg was founded as a heavily fortified, primarily Dutch, trading colony, by royal charter in 1621 by King Gustavus Adolphus. The city […]