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The vessel was launched in January 1980 as Visby for Rederi AB Gotland. She was the first of two identical ships built by Öresundsvarvet in Landskrona. Visby entered service between Gotland and the Swedish mainland ports of Nynäshamn and Oskarshamn. In 1987, the contract to run ferry services to Gotland was awarded to Gotlandslinjen.
[21] [22] Visby is also the only municipality seat of Sweden that is accessible from the mainland only by boat and air traffic. Visby is situated on the central west coast of Gotland, on the rather steep slopes of limestone cliffs surrounding the first natural harbor. The town has evolved around the medieval harbor that now constitutes the ...
The main port of call on Gotland is Visby. The city is visited by a number of cruise ships every year. [95] [96] About 40 cruise lines frequent the Baltic sea with Visby as one of their destinations. [97] In 2005, 147 ships docked at Visby, in 2010 the number was 69. [98] In 2014, 62 ships are scheduled to visit Visby. [99]
Upon departure from or arrival to Helsinki, Baltic sea cruiseferries pass the island fortress of Suomenlinna.. Tallink and Viking Line operate competing cruiseferries on the routes Stockholm - Turku and Stockholm - Helsinki, calling in Åland (Mariehamn or Långnäs).
Map of the airport in Visby. Before the railroad was closed down on the island of Gotland, the main line from Visby to the northern parts of the island actually crossed the runway. It was one of the few airports in the world where this happened. [13] The railway traffic was ended in 1960, and the tracks were removed a few years later.
In the 19th century the area went by the name Gamle Hamn (Old Port). When the area was planted with elms in the 1870s, the name Almedalen was coined. In Sweden, the name Almedalen is generally associated with the Almedalen Week, an annual event in Visby which is an important meeting place for everyone involved in Swedish politics. During the ...
On 22 July 1361, King Valdemar IV of Denmark (Valdemar Atterdag) sent an army ashore on Gotland's west coast.The Gutes of Gotland paid taxes to and was a semi-independent part of Sweden under King Magnus IV of Sweden, though the population of Visby was diverse and included people of Ruthenian descent, Danes, and Germans.
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