Goteborg is Sweden's second largest city, as well as a large academic and industrial center, including with the Volvo factory. There are also cultural institutions as well as restaurants and bars.
The city was founded in the 17th century as a port allowing the Swedes to bypass the Danish-occupied Straits of Kategatt and Skagerrak and a direct connection to the North Sea. To this day, it remains the largest Swedish port, which is best admired from the Götheborgsutkiken viewpoint in the Lilla Bommen office building.
References to the sea are very visible in Gothenburg. The contemporary opera house standing in the port imitates the shape of the ship, and in the vicinity you can spend the night in a hotel on the deck of a huge sailing ship from the beginning of the 20th century.
Today's buildings in the center of Goteborg were built primarily in the 18th and 19th centuries. It consists of neoclassical and eclectic tenements, while the center of downtown is Götaplatsen with the Poseidon Fountain. Around him are the most important cultural institutions, including the Museum of Art, theater and concert hall.
Kungsportsavenyn leads to Götaplatsen Square - one of the most important and the most representative streets of Goteborg. According to tradition, the Parisian Champs Elysees were to be the model for her. Along the boulevard there are rows of restaurants, bars, cafes and shops of the most important Swedish and world brands.
