Hanseatic Town of Visby

Cultural
Hanseatic Town of Visby
Photo: Jan Norrman / CC BY 2.5 (Wikimedia Commons)
Country Sweden
Year inscribed1995
Criteria(iv) (v)

Overview

A former Viking site on the island of Gotland, Visby was the main centre of the Hanseatic League in the Baltic from the 12th to the 14th century. Its 13th-century ramparts and more than 200 warehouses and wealthy merchants' dwellings from the same period make it the best-preserved fortified commercial city in northern Europe.

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Source: UNESCO World Heritage List — CC BY-SA 4.0