Travel Reference
In-Depth Information
Gaffelbyn & Norra Bergets Handsverksmuseum
SUNDSVALL
CAFÉS & RESTAURANTS
Bite Line
Café Charm
Coffee House
Invito
La Spezia
Ming Palace
Saffran
The Sea Street
Sundsvall Tandoori House
Tant Anci/Fröken Sara
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1
2
5
4
7
10
3
6
8
N
O R
R L I D S G
A
BARS
Bishops Arms
Irish Pub
Mercat Cross
Oscar Bar & Matsal
2
3
4
1
VÄ G
E
SKEPPAR
PLASTEN
7
Bus
Station
Sundsvallsjärden
Boat
Trips
Kulturmagasinet
STORA-
TORGET
Gustav Adolfs
kyrka
Te a t e r
Train
Station
Filmstaden
(cinema)
ACCOMMODATION
Best Western Baltic
Clarion Collection Grand
Elite Knaust
First Strand
Fläsians Camping
Ibis Sundsvall
Lilla Hotellet
Scandic Sundsvall City
STF Sundsvall City
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4
3
5
8
7
6
9
1
0
300
metres
the town burned down” is now an established Sundsvall saying. Nine thousand people
lost their homes in the resulting blaze. The work of rebuilding the city began at once,
and within ten years a new centre had been constructed, entirely of
stone
. The result is
a living document of turn-of-the-twentieth-century urban architecture, designed and
crafted by architects who were involved in rebuilding Stockholm's residential areas at
the same time. Wide streets and esplanades that would serve as firebreaks in the event
of another fire formed the backbone of their work. These thoroughfares are home to
573 residential buildings, all of which went up in four years; the centrepiece is the
house that dominates the main square, Storatorget.
The reconstruction, however, was achieved at a price: the workers who had laboured
on the city's refurbishment became the victims of their own success. They were shifted
from their old homes in the centre and moved out south to a run-down suburb - the
glaring contrast between the wealth of the new centre and the poverty of the
