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Hanseatic Town of Visby

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Sweden
Date of Inscription: 1995
Criteria: (iv)(v)
Island region of Gotland
N57 38 30.0 E18 17 45.0
Ref: 731

Brief Description

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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