Skansen Kronan As Well As Kungsportsavenyn

Skansen Kronan is a redoubt inwards the district of Haga of Gothenburg, Sweden.

Skansen Kronan was built inwards the afterwards one-half of the 17th century according to the plans of Erik Dahlberg. Skansen Kronan was introduced inwards 1698 as well as was fitted alongside 23 guns. The roof was non completed until 1700. Skansen has 4-5 metre thick walls made of granite, gneiss as well as diabase. Skansen Kronan was never attacked as well as the cannons on the within induce got never been used.

The fortress as well as the twin counterpart, Skansen Lejonet, were built equally purpose of the defenses against possible Danish assail on Gothenburg from the south, as well as so had a like purpose equally the Älvsborg Fortress.

The fortress - originally built exterior the metropolis walls - is today situated inwards the metropolis centre of Gothenburg on a colina inwards the metropolis district of Haga. It was used equally a state of war machine museum until 2004. Today Skansen Kronan is a someone facility for conferences as well as someone parties.

 Kungsportsavenyn viewed from the steps of the Gothenburg Museum of Art, alongside the Poseidon statue inwards the foreground

Kungsportsavenyn, usually known equally but Avenyn ("The Avenue", It is the major avenue inwards the city), is the top dog street of Gothenburg, Sweden, as well as a smaller counterpart of the Champs-Élysées. It was created inwards the 1860s as well as 1870s equally a number of an international town planning competition. With a amount length of almost grand meters, it stretches from the erstwhile moat at the border of the older purpose of Gothenburg, as well as ends at the Götaplatsen square, where the Gothenburg Museum of Art as well as several other cultural institutions are located.

At the moat, it connects to the smaller street Östra Hamngatan, as well as the Avenue takes its it amount get upwards after Kungsporten, the "King's Gate" which was located at the betoken inwards the fortifications where Östra Hamngatan ends (see Kungsportsplatsen). The gate as well as the residual of the fortifications were demolished inwards the 19th century as well as replaced past times a park.

Avenyn passes the Stora teatern, the Neo-Renaissance home as well as opera edifice from 1859, as well as has a major concentration of pubs, discothèques as well as restaurants.