Gåstorget
Sign in to savethumb|300px|Gåstorget in February 2007 Gåstorget (Swedish: "Goose Square") is a small public square in Gamla stan, the old town in central Stockholm, Sweden, situated between the two alleys Överskärargränd and Gåsgränd.
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- Instance of
- square
- Country
- Sweden
- Located in
- Stockholm
- Location
- Gamla stan
- Image
- Gåstorget Gamla stan 2016.jpg
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- Gåstorget
- located in/on physical feature
- Stadsholmen
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thumb|300px|Gåstorget in February 2007 Gåstorget (Swedish: "Goose Square") is a small public square in Gamla stan, the old town in central Stockholm, Sweden, situated between the two alleys Överskärargränd and Gåsgränd.
==History== In 1730, city engineer Johan Eberhard Carlberg proposed that spaces for horse-drawn vehicle be created at various locations though to the city, mostly to facilitate fire fighting. In 1796 such a space was created on the present location. Though the square was not given an official name, it was informally referred to as Gåsplan ("Goose Plain") or Gåsgtorget. A 1981 proposal to name the square after the troubadour Evert Taube was rejected, and the common name was made official.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Gåstorget” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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