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Visby and Tallinn are the only two North-European towns in which the city's medieval grid plan has been fully preserved into present day. [citation needed] One of the asteroids in the asteroid belt, 6102 Visby, is named after this place. [25]
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 week, which takes place during the 27th week of every year, representatives from the major political parties in Sweden take turns giving speeches in the ...
All monasteries were abolished and all churches within the city walls except one (present-day Visby Cathedral) were abandoned and left to decay. During the following centuries, some church ruins were used as quarries. In 1805 the church ruins were protected by law and in 1863 the Swedish state for the first time allocated money for their ...
In medieval Sweden, only Stockholm, Kalmar and Visby had city walls. [ 1 ] The last major rebuilding of the city wall occurred in the 1350s, when the wall was strengthened and its height increased by an additional 3-to-4-metre (9.8 to 13.1 ft). [ 6 ]
The church has been named after Saint Lawrence (225–258), one of the seven deacons of the city of Rome, Italy under Pope Sixtus II.Saint Lars Church was established probably around 1210-1220 as a Visby parish church as a result of the population increase in Gotland.
The Gotland Museum (Swedish: Gotlands museum) (previously known as Länsmuseet på Gotland or Gotlands Fornsal) in Visby, Sweden, is the county museum of Gotland. It was founded by the Friends of Gotland's Antiquity society in 1875, at the initiative of Pehr Arvid Säve. The museum owns a number of houses and farms on Gotland, some of which are ...
In 1356, King Magnus gave control of Norway to his son, King Haakon VI Magnusson, though Magnus still remains as King of Sweden. In July 1361, Danish forces under King Valdemar Atterdag landed in Gotland. On 27 July, Visby was seized and at least 2,000 peasants were killed. In 1362, Swedish nobles led a revolt and declared Haakon as King of Sweden.
The landing took place later in the day, possibly in Vivesholm at Klintehamn, [3] alternatively at Kronvald's fishing location on Ekstakusten on the west side of the island. According to contemporary accounts, the hastily assembled rural population put up counter-defenses and fought several fierce battles against Valdemar's 1,800 jackals, of ...
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