Hanseatic Town of Visby World Heritage Site

Official name

Hanseatic Town of Visby | UNESCO

Country

Sweden | Map

Continent

Europe

Location

Island region of Gotland
57.6416° Lat, 18.2958° Lon | Map

Code

731

Time Zone

Europe/Stockholm (CET, +0100)

Current Time

Category

Cultural

Description

Inscribed 1995. 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.