Liseberg
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Gothenburg,  Sweden
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| Coordinates | 57°41′44″N 11°59′24″E / 57.69556°N 11.99000°ECoordinates: 57°41′44″N 11°59′24″E / 57.69556°N 11.99000°E |
| Owner | Göteborgs stad |
| Operated by | Liseberg AB |
| General Manager | Andreas Andersen |
| Opened | 8 May 1923 |
| Operating season | April to October (October, November and December for Halloween and Christmas season) |
| Visitors per annum | 3,100,000 (2014) |
| Area | 170,000 square metres (42 acres) |
| Rides | |
| Total | 37 |
| Roller coasters | 6 |
| Water rides | 2 |
| Website | Liseberg.com |
Liseberg is an amusement park located in Gothenburg, Sweden, that opened in 1923. It is one of the most visited amusement parks in Scandinavia, attracting about three million visitors annually. Among the noteworthy attractions is the wooden roller coaster Balder, twice (2003 and 2005) voted as the Best Wooden Tracked Roller Coaster in the world in a major international poll. The park itself has also been chosen as one of the top ten amusement parks in the world (2005) by Forbes magazine.
Additional to the summer season, the park is also open during November and December, albeit with fewer rides operating, hosting a Halloween season with various house of horros and a Christmas market with traditional Swedish cuisine such as mulled wine and specialties such as döner kebab made from reindeer meat.
The official colors of Liseberg are pink and green as can be seen on the entrance and the older houses in the park, the colors were also adopted for the logo, which was introduced in the 1980s, but changed in 2013 to the current logo.
In 1752, the landowner Johan Anders Lamberg named his property Lisas berg ("Lisa's Mountain") after his wife Elisabeth Söderberg. The area eventually became known as Liseberg.
In 1908, Gothenburg City bought the property including the on-site buildings for 225,000 Swedish kronor.
In 1923, Gothenburg celebrated its 300-year anniversary with the Gothenburg Exhibition (1923), which included a Leisure Park and the Congress Park; the area was opened on 8 May and included fun slides and the 980 ft long wooden Kanneworffska Funicular, designed by the Danish amusement builder Waldemar Lebech (originally there were 5 trains with 3 cars each that accommodated 10 people in each car, the ride lasted 2 and half minute; the ride was demolished in 1987 after having served over 41 million visitors). The fun park was originally intended as a temporary attraction for the Exhibition, but it became such a success with over 800,000 visitors in just over a month, that it was kept open. With an area of 1,500,000 m² the park had cost 2.6 million kronors to build.
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