Gåstorget

thumb|300px|Gåstorget in February 2007 Gåstorget (Swedish: "Goose Square") is a small public square in Gamla stan, the old town in central Stockholm, Sweden, situated between the two alleys Överskärargränd and Gåsgränd.

==History== In 1730, city engineer Johan Eberhard Carlberg proposed that spaces for horse-drawn vehicle be created at various locations though to the city, mostly to facilitate fire fighting. In 1796 such a space was created on the present location. Though the square was not given an official name, it was informally referred to as Gåsplan ("Goose Plain") or Gåsgtorget. A 1981 proposal to name the square after the troubadour Evert Taube was rejected, and the common name was made official.