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   1© Guillaume Baviere from Copenhagen, Denmark · CC BY-SA 2.0

   City wall of Visby

   Three and a half kilometres of medieval wall with more than forty towers, the best-preserved city wall in Scandinavia. It was built by the townsmen in the thirteenth century — partly against the Gotland farmers outside, whose trade they had taken.

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   Visby Cathedral

   A cathedral of the Church of Sweden in the middle of Visby on Gotland, seat of the bishop of Visby. It was built in the thirteenth century as the church of the German merchants of the town.

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   3© Wolfgang Sauber · CC BY-SA 3.0

   Roma Abbey

   The ruins of a Cistercian abbey and royal estate at Roma on Gotland. It was built in the twelfth century, and after the Reformation the land was confiscated by the crown and made into an estate.

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   Gotland Museum

   The Gotland Museum in Visby. It holds the Viking-age silver hoards and picture stones of the island; more Viking silver has been found on Gotland than anywhere else in the world.

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   Bro Church

   A medieval stone church at Bro on Gotland, built in the twelfth century and known for the earlier picture stones set into its walls.

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   Ekeby Church

   A medieval church at Ekeby on Gotland, built in stone in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries, one of the ninety-two medieval churches on the island.

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   Atlingbo Church

   A medieval church at Atlingbo on Gotland, keeping a Romanesque nave with a Gothic chancel added to it.

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   Björke Church

   A medieval church at Björke on Gotland, built in the thirteenth century, with traces of medieval wall painting inside.

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   Almedalen

   A park inside the walls of Visby on the shore. The political week held here each summer brings together every party and organisation in Sweden, and has become a fixed point of the country's political calendar.

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    Fole Church

    A medieval church at Fole on Gotland. Its twelfth-century Romanesque tower survives, and it stands in the farmland of the north of the island.

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   Visborg

   The site of a castle south of Visby. Denmark built it while it held the island in the fifteenth century; Sweden blew it up after recovering Gotland in the seventeenth, and only fragments of wall remain.

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   Dalhem Church

   A medieval church at Dalhem on Gotland. Its thirteenth-century stained glass survives and shows the medieval glasswork of the island.

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   Tofta Church

   A medieval church at Tofta on Gotland, in a village on the west coast, keeping its twelfth-century Romanesque work.

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   Endre Church

   A medieval church at Endre on Gotland, built in the thirteenth century and standing alone in the farmland of the island's interior.

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   Källunge church

   A medieval church at Källunge on Gotland. Its enormous chancel was left unfinished exactly as the work stopped, which shows in the fabric how suddenly the island's wealth was cut off.

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   6© Bene Riobó · CC BY-SA 4.0

   Roma Church

   A medieval church at Roma on Gotland. The remains of a thirteenth-century Cistercian abbey stand nearby, which suggests how far this district was the religious centre of the island.

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   Stenkumla Church

   A medieval church at Stenkumla on Gotland, near the coast south of Visby, keeping its Romanesque tower.

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   Martebo Church

   A medieval church at Martebo on Gotland. Its tall Gothic chancel and large windows show the island's church building at its most lavish.

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   Barlingbo Church

   A medieval church at Barlingbo on Gotland, built in the thirteenth century. Medieval wall paintings uncovered from beneath the whitewash survive in the chancel.

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    Hörsne Church

    A medieval church at Hörsne on Gotland, showing the island's standard pattern of a Romanesque nave with a Gothic chancel added.

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