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Extract from the Sundsvall Travel Guides:
Known as the "Stone City",
SUNDSVALL
is immediately and obviously different. Once home to a rapidly expanding nineteenth-century sawmill industry, the whole city burned down in 1888 and a new centre built completely of stone emerged within ten years. The result is a living document of early-twentieth-century urban architecture, designed by architects who were engaged in rebuilding Stockholm's residential areas at the same time. This was achieved at a price, however: the workers who built 573 residential buildings in four years became the victims of their own success, and were shifted from their old homes in the centre and mov...
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