The viewpoint
The harbour, the cranes and the river from above.
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Greater than a visitor expects. In the nineteenth century Scottish and English families settled in Gothenburg โ **Keiller**, **Dickson**, **Carnegie** and **Gibson** โ founding the shipyards, textile mills, breweries and sugar refineries, and forming an industrial class known as the English Gothenburgers. They left an architectural mark in villas and gardens, introduced football, tennis and the English garden to Sweden, and founded the city's English church. Their names are on streets and parks to this day, and this park is one of them.
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Keillers Park lies on the slope of **Ramberget** on Hisingen island north of the river, and from it comes **the best panoramic view of Gothenburg** โ the harbour, the cranes, the river and the whole city from above. The industrialist **Alexander Keiller** gave it to the city in 1906. He came from a Scottish family that had settled in Gothenburg and founded the shipyard that carried its name, one of several British families that shaped the city's industry in the nineteenth century. The park is not a laid-out garden but **forest on a rock slope**: paths climbing among oak and beech, exposed rock outcrops, and small clearings. At the top is an open viewpoint. Few visitors climb it because it is on Hisingen rather than in the centre โ reached by bus or tram and then a ten-minute climb. Which is why it is quiet: you get the view to yourself. **Free and always open**, with a steep slope in places.
The harbour, the cranes and the river from above.
Oak and beech on exposed rock outcrops.
Ramberget, Hisingen, Gothenburg