UNESCO Welterbe

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Hanseatic Town of Visby

Kategorie
Cultural
Land
Sweden
Einschreibungsjahr
1995
Kriterien
(iv)(v)
UNESCO-ID
731

Beschreibung

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.