Brantingtorget Fountain - Stockholm, Sweden
Posted by: DougK
N 59° 19.563 E 018° 04.087
34V E 333186 N 6580030
"Square of Branting" is the courtyard of the "Annex of the Chancellery", acting as one of the public squares in Gamla stan, the old town in central Stockholm, Sweden.
Waymark Code: WMJBEC
Location: Stockholm, Sweden
Date Posted: 10/24/2013
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Brantingtorget is the courtyard of the so called Kanslihusannexet, acting as one of the public squares in Gamla stan, the old town in central Stockholm, Sweden. The building has a circular plaza in it’s center. Centred on the square is the bronze sculpture Morgon ("Morning"), a nude by Ivar Johnsson from 1962.
This plaza has a circular tub-shaped fountain with small bubbling streams of water. Around the edge of the tub walls are seven granite character sculptures. In the center of the fountain is the bronze sculpture of Morgon, a nude woman kneeling atop a pedestal.