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As the strongest, most extensive, and best preserved medieval city wall in Scandinavia, the wall forms an important and integral part of Visby World Heritage Site. Built in two stages during the 13th and 14th century, approximately 3.44 km (2.14 mi) of its original 3.6 km (2.2 mi) still stands.
- Length 3.44 km (2.14 mi)
- Gotland Municipality
- 12th century
Visby also has a well-preserved 3.5 kilometres long medieval ring wall (The Visby City Wall) with many of its original towers from the 1200s still intact. The wall encircles the centre of Visby and was initially built for protection against both foreign enemies and Swedish assailants from the countryside. 7 / 7. i.
The City wall of Visby (Swedish: Visby ringmur) is an old medieval defensive wall surrounding the city. The building of ringwall was probably started in the 13th century. Around 1280 it was rebuilt to reach its current height, along with the addition of its characteristic towers (although some tow ...
- Norra Murgatan, Visby, Sweden
Lovely historic walls around the inner city. Aug 2020. The city wall is one of the best things about Visby. It's quite well-preserved and gives a feel of being back in time with moats and drawbridges and horses on cobblestone roads... even the towers are mostly intact, flying Swedish flags.
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- Visby Town Wall is a medieval defensive wall surrounding the Swedish town of Visby on the island of Gotland.
- The oldest part of the city wall is a defensive tower, today called the Kruttornet (the Gunpowder Tower), which was erected at the harbor entrance in the 12th century.
- The wall had 29 big ground-towers, you can still see 27 of the towers today, completed with 22 sadeltowers.
- The city wall was restored in 1884 to 1886 by architect Emil Victor Langlet.
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