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Rating: 5 | Votes: 1 | Date: 02/07/2026 23:44:00

Seven towers of orientalist fantasy rise from the middle of Malmo's Folkets Park, built by the labour movement for workers who were not welcome in the bourgeois salons. Moriska Paviljongen - Moriskan to the city - was commissioned in 1901, when the Social Democrats who had bought the park a decade earlier decided their members deserved entertainment as well as politics. Polish-Jewish architect Aron Wolff Krenzisky answered with an orientalist fairy-tale palace, unique in Sweden, inaugurated on 1...