Three storey landshövdingehus climb the hillside streets, with the Eriksberg shipyard crane across the river below.
What Majorna looks like
Majorna's streets climb the hill of away from the river, past landshövdingehus three storeys tall with a stone or brick ground floor under two wooden storeys above. Bay windows and brick arches run along the facades, with forged steel railings at the doors. Corner buildings carry small shops under their ground floor windows.
On , trams and buses run past more of the same wooden rows, red tile roofs and chimneys above grey and white painted facades. Closer to the water at , older brick buildings line a path above the river. The orange gantry crane at the former Eriksberg shipyard stands on the far bank.
Away from the main streets, bare granite outcrops break through the grass between the blocks, with low stone retaining walls cut into the slope. Narrower side streets such as Delawaregatan run between painted wood houses two and three storeys high, closer in scale than the streets nearer Klippan.
A brick house at 10, built in 1900 around a plain courtyard, has been a recurring filming location for Swedish television and film. The courtyard has stood in for Stockholm in two Swedish productions, Call Girl in 2012 and Vår tid är nu beginning in 2017.
Shot in Majorna
The courtyard at Bangatan 10 has played a Stockholm backyard twice, in Call Girl and in Vår tid är nu. Each production dresses the same brick walls and plain yard for the same city in a different decade.
Bangatan 10
Bangatan 10. The same courtyard stands in for a different Swedish city almost every time a production uses it.
Vår tid är nu (The Restaurant), 2017 to 2020
The courtyard at Bangatan 10
Played Calle's backyard, Stockholm, Sweden, 1945 to the 1970s
Calle Svensson works as the kitchen boy in the SVT series Vår tid är nu, and the courtyard at Bangatan 10 is his family's backyard. The same courtyard stands in for his home in Stockholm throughout the show.
Call Girl, 2012
Played Stockholm, Sweden, 1976
The courtyard at Bangatan 10 stands in for a Stockholm apartment building in Call Girl, Mikael Marcimain's 2012 film. The story follows a teenager drawn into a prostitution ring during the 1976 Swedish election.
What Majorna can double for
Møllenberg in Trondheim, Norway
Møllenberg's dense wooden houses climb a hillside above Trondheim's harbour, the closest match for Majorna's own hillside streets. Look along Kolstadgata and Rosenborggata for rows of two storey wooden houses packed close together. The houses are wood from the ground up, with no stone or brick base storey, so a tight frame on the lower walls gives away the difference. Try searching wooden hillside houses now.
Nordnes in Bergen, Norway
Nordnes climbs a hillside peninsula in rows of white and pale wood cottages, built for the fishermen and shipyard workers who once worked the harbour below. The old Georgernes Verft shipyard stood at the foot of the same hill. The houses are lighter in colour than Majorna's painted wood and brick, and no crane stands across the water in most views. Try searching pale wood hillside cottages now.
Kampen in Oslo, Norway
Kampen is a grid of wooden houses built in the 1880s on a hillside above central Oslo, with the same close set rows as Majorna's own streets. It sits inland rather than facing a harbour. There is no water and no crane in view from Kampen's hillside, so it only stands in for the housing itself. Try searching wooden hillside houses now.
