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Extract from the Gvle Travel Guides:
It's only two hours north by train from Stockholm to
GVLE
, principal city of the county of Gstrikland and communications hub for the west and north. Gvle's charter was granted in 1446, but the town was almost completely redesigned after a fire in 1869. Its large squares, broad avenues and proud monumental buildings, centring on the roomy
Stortorget
, reflect its late-nineteenth-century success as an export centre for timber and metal. The place to head for is the one surviving part of the old town,
Gamla Gefle
, an area of wooden cottages and narrow cobbled streets on the other side of the river fr...
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