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Hanseatic Town of Visby
Site number: | 731 |
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Type of site: | Cultural | |
Date: | 12-14th century | |
Date of Inscription: | 1995 | |
Location: | Europe, Sweden, Island region of Gotland |
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Description: | Visby, previously a Viking site on the island of Gotland, was a major Baltic centre of the Hanseatic League from the 12th to the 14th century. The site is northern Europe’s best-preserved fortified commercial city, with its 13th-century fortifications and over 200 warehouses and wealthy merchants' dwellings from the same period. --WHMNet paraphrase from the description at WHC Site, where additional information is available. | |
Visby is the largest city on the Swedish island of Gotland; it is arguably the best-preserved medieval city in Scandinavia and has been named a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Among the most notable historical remains are the 3.4 km long stone wall called Ringmuren that encircles the city and the old church ruins. --Wikipedia. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License. | ||
Source: | http://whc.unesco.org/en/list/731 | |
Reference: | 1. UNESCO World Heritage Center, Site Page. | |