Farväl till de sju haven
In Sweden, Farväl till de sju haven is a public sculpture by Gareth Lewis, created in 1989. The work centres on departure, voyages and the bond between people and the sea. Its atmosphere suggests sailors, waving families and merchants closing one chapter before beginning another. No single story controls the sculpture, so memory supplies different meanings for each visitor.
Over time, commuters have passed it with headphones, while children play near its base. Older visitors stop there and remember relatives who once left by ship. The sculpture works as a landmark and a quiet place for marking beginnings or farewells. Some people read migration into it, others adventure or personal loss. Its lasting detail is the contrast between ordinary daily movement and imagined journeys across seven seas.
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The myTuur app is free, and once you are standing at a spot its story starts by itself.
Spots like this one are the stops myTuur strings into tours through Malmö. In the app, each story begins where you stand: walk up to a spot and it starts, read it on screen or listen as you go, then follow the route to the next one.
What is myTuur?
myTuur is a free city-guide app. Its tours are built from spots, and each spot carries a story that starts when you get there, to read or to listen to as you like.