Viking's Trading Post to Baltic's Golden Age: A Visby Audio Tour

Overview

Visby's medieval centre is so well preserved that UNESCO granted it World Heritage status in 1995. On this walking tour, you'll trace how Visby rose from a Viking-age trading post to become the Baltic's most powerful Hanseatic city, and how Danish invasions, the Black Death, and the Reformation brought that golden age to an end. Starting at the Port Terminal, you'll pass through the Southern Gate where archaeologists found medieval arrowheads in the stonework, explore a park that was once the Baltic's busiest harbour, and walk above a 4,000-year-old Stone Age settlement buried beneath the cobblestones. Along the way you'll hear of a woman imprisoned on witchcraft charges, stand inside a Dominican church burned in 1525, and discover why the famous Goddess of Abundance statue was actually a French mail-order sculpture.