I am born on Gotland and we have 92 medevel churches still in use. We have a medevelfestival every year in Visby . There are plenty of movies on TH-cam. Bengt
The wall around Visby is just around a smaller area of the modern-day town of Visby. The population of Visby is only around 25,000 but it grows during the summer because of all tourism. Visby (and the whole island of Gotland) is a popular tourist spot for other Swedes.
@@annicaesplund6613 Tror du de kostar att ha alla jävla efterblivna turister då? Som tror dom äger hela ön och många beter sig som äckliga svin och svinar ner. Nej fråga VILKEN gotlänning som helst så får du nog 99% samma svar. Inga turister tack
just a little fact wrong here. i live inside the ''ringmuren'' (the walls). there are more than 60 thosand inhabitants and over summer it more that doubbles becaus of the tourism.
About 60 000 people lives on the island. And every year about 1 million tourists visit Gotland. My parents bought a summer house on the island 1980. Been there almost every summer since. + I did my military service in Visby, P18 (1986). The island is approx 200 kilometers long and 40 km at its widest.
Visby is a wonderful town and their medieval week festival is so much fun. You should see all the beautiful clothes people have made for themselves, it feels like being on a movie set.
The town I live in started with settlements at least as far back as in the viking age, with the oldest still standing in-use structure being a cathedral from the 13th century. There's a great resource in Sweden for locating historical sites around you "Fornsök". Open it up in pretty much any inhabited place and you'll find hundreds if not thousands of known historical finds, many that are left in place and can be visited.
@@justmaria Uppsala (Östra Aros) is much older than that. But in 1258 the pope gave the Swedish church permission to move the bishop's seat from (old) Uppsala to Östra Aros, which soon became known as (new) Uppsala. The build or "construction" of domkyrkan (the dome cathedral) began in 1272.
Sigtuna is usually considered Sweden's oldest city that still exists as a city, which was established at the end of the 9th century by the Swedish king Erik Segersäll. However, even earlier cities or villages have existed but do not remain - e.g. "Birka" is the most famous and was the predecessor of Sigtuna.
Hi its so lowly to be at Gotland and whith naghtlive and shops.if you go there you dont want to live.and the beaches is Crayzy whith music and lots of fun.you can cykle whith you bike all a ruound wonderfull place.look more in to it.take care Viveka from sweden.🙂
I live in Visby 😅 but its so mutch more outside the wall, its a normal city too. 60.000 people on the island, lives there all the year. Only rich peopel can buy houses inside the wall.
Thats the town im living in. Love the city but you get used to the old town and the wall, You dont think about it so much. A lot of the buildings in Europe are old. Some older than others.. :)
Gotland and Visby are a popular tourist destination in the summer. They also have a week called medieval week which is very popular, where people dress up in medieval clothes and do things that were done back then. I haven't checked if there is anything about it on TH-cam?
I grew up five minute's walk from a 13th century church, and if I went the opposite direction, 2-3,000-year old carvings in the rocks by early bronze age settlers. So, ah, yeah. There's a lot of fun history in Sweden. Heck, one of my ancestors lived in the forest near where I live now, in a cave under a rock where he was a blacksmith to people passing by. He didn't even have to do that. 😁
Also, if you want to visit old places, there's the tiny trade city of Eketorp, an actual Viking-era settlement on the island neighboring Gotland, Öland. Eketorp is basically constantly under excavation. There's also one other settlement that was found more recently, that had the first real evidence of trade routes to Rome before the Viking era.
How old a town is could be a tricky question. Many Swedish towns have been settlements and trading centers since the stone age, but of course they weren't towns then. In the middle ages and for some centuries on, most kinds of trade could only legally be done in cities, for tax reasons, and the king decided which places were allowed to call themselves cities. So most towns know the date and year the king granted them city privileges. One of the reasons Visby has so many beautiful medieval buildings is that it used to be the richest town in Sweden, because of all the trade. One way to show off your riches in the middle ages was to fund a church, that is why Visby has a ridiculous amount of medieval churches, even though only one of them is still in use as a church.
How fun you visited Visby! If you’re up for a virtual walk there I have several on my channel, like this one on a cold winter night: th-cam.com/video/-W-1PyRMwBc/w-d-xo.html Or on a calm evening in June: Sweden Walks: Visby, Gotland. Streets and people in medieval, world heritage town th-cam.com/video/8Y3TMz5fQrc/w-d-xo.html
always have to watch a video when my home town is in it :D sadly, it is awfully dull living here year around. not much going on here outside of tourist season 🥲
Ribe in Denmark celebrated it's 1300th "birthday" in 2020. 1300th!! My home town got Market Rights in 1171, meaning it was already was a fairly big town then, so we've got some old houses. A friend of mine lives in a house build around year 1400. Mind you the enterior is as modern as any new build and has all the creature comforts - except there's not a right angle in the house🤣
There are foundations of large forts and large burial mounds since 1700 BC but no writings preserved from that time. When Christianity took hold of Sweden, large book fires were organized where writings about old times and old gods were burned.
I love to live in this beautiful island. And if you are about to visit Gotland you must check out Visby. But there are so so many other places to to visit on the island of Gotland. Specially on the summertime when the countryside are so beautiful. And don’t forget to visit the little island Fårö which is an incredible beautiful place to visit to.
In all of Sandinavia there is A LOT of buldings dating back to the 1000-1100-1200 centuries, often churches or carstels because they were build of stones - wich is more supstantionel - and expencive - than common peopel could afford; many of these buldings are still in use. Greetings from Denmark. 🇩🇰
I was there last autumn,, even though i'm familiar with the building archetype and resources used Visby is truly a magnificent place to have visited :) (i'm from sweden)
I dont know if youve done this before but if not, you should react to Swedish rap/drill. Theres a big rap scene with many artists that english people usually like. The biggest rappers are Einar(rip), Yasin, 23, Sickan, Dizzy, 2m, Thrife, and more but there are also other great not so famous rappers like G1ocatore, Boogie Dinero, Sticky and more. You should also react to Kid Nerds video "The deadly beef inside a small Swedish town" to get a better understanding. Some songs you should start off with are: Sticky - Vänd igen Einar - Sätter dom på plats Juice, Einar - Härifrån Dizzy - Bara om ni visste Yasin - Chicago 23 - Scorpio G1ocatore - Mannequins Thrife - This is Sweden Sickan - Intro 2m - Tour de France Nummeruno - Lumpen If you like it ill send more songs, there are many
yeah ive lived in visby my whole life and its nice af, tho the only thing id like to point out is that the video is only showing the old town part of visby, but we have all the normal modern stuff too ofc, just in the city outside of the walls. :)
I am born on Gotland and we have 92 medevel churches still in use.
We have a medevelfestival every year in Visby . There are plenty of movies on TH-cam.
Bengt
The wall around Visby is just around a smaller area of the modern-day town of Visby. The population of Visby is only around 25,000 but it grows during the summer because of all tourism. Visby (and the whole island of Gotland) is a popular tourist spot for other Swedes.
Jo tack, vi blir invaderade varje år av turister. :P
@@chimirakiller som ni tjänar pengar på...
@@annicaesplund6613 Tror du de kostar att ha alla jävla efterblivna turister då?
Som tror dom äger hela ön och många beter sig som äckliga svin och svinar ner. Nej fråga VILKEN gotlänning som helst så får du nog 99% samma svar. Inga turister tack
@@chimirakiller Maver 😉
just a little fact wrong here. i live inside the ''ringmuren'' (the walls). there are more than 60 thosand inhabitants and over summer it more that doubbles becaus of the tourism.
About 60 000 people lives on the island. And every year about 1 million tourists visit Gotland. My parents bought a summer house on the island 1980. Been there almost every summer since. + I did my military service in Visby, P18 (1986). The island is approx 200 kilometers long and 40 km at its widest.
Gotland is actually 52 km wide it its widest
Visby is a wonderful town and their medieval week festival is so much fun. You should see all the beautiful clothes people have made for themselves, it feels like being on a movie set.
Born and raised 🌟👌🥇and still here
In two and a half years, on 27th July 2025, that big cathedral will be 800 years old from the day of consecration. On the dot. Pretty neat.
I lived and studied in Visby for six years, left in 2019 after graduating and I miss it everyday, truly a wonderful town!
The town I live in started with settlements at least as far back as in the viking age, with the oldest still standing in-use structure being a cathedral from the 13th century.
There's a great resource in Sweden for locating historical sites around you "Fornsök". Open it up in pretty much any inhabited place and you'll find hundreds if not thousands of known historical finds, many that are left in place and can be visited.
The oldest city/town in Sweden is Sigtuna from 970. Visby is from 1100
How about uppsala ?
@@bobbah676 founded Old uppsala 1164 new uppsala was founded 1286
@@justmaria That was a quick answer cool =) thanks i thought i heard It was from around 900s but seems like im wrong
@@bobbah676 I like history 😁👍and you are welcome 😊
@@justmaria Uppsala (Östra Aros) is much older than that. But in 1258 the pope gave the Swedish church permission to move the bishop's seat from (old) Uppsala to Östra Aros, which soon became known as (new) Uppsala. The build or "construction" of domkyrkan (the dome cathedral) began in 1272.
Visby is not the oldest town/city in Sweden. Sigtuna, Lund and Skara is a couple of hundred years older.
You should go to Gotland and Fårö in the summer. Really nice place.
Sigtuna is usually considered Sweden's oldest city that still exists as a city, which was established at the end of the 9th century by the Swedish king Erik Segersäll. However, even earlier cities or villages have existed but do not remain - e.g. "Birka" is the most famous and was the predecessor of Sigtuna.
Hi its so lowly to be at Gotland and whith naghtlive and shops.if you go there you dont want to live.and the beaches is Crayzy whith music and lots of fun.you can cykle whith you bike all a ruound wonderfull place.look more in to it.take care Viveka from sweden.🙂
I live in Visby 😅 but its so mutch more outside the wall, its a normal city too. 60.000 people on the island, lives there all the year. Only rich peopel can buy houses inside the wall.
yoo im born there and still live here
Thats the town im living in. Love the city but you get used to the old town and the wall,
You dont think about it so much. A lot of the buildings in Europe are old. Some older than others.. :)
The island of Gotland is where my sister lives.. And we usually go every summer especially around the medieval festival.
My home island on Dars channel. cool.
Visby and Lübeck was both major trade " capitals " , a hubs for all the riches in North Europa.
These tradehouses , like major internatiol companies.
Ah my little island ❤ There is no more peaceful place growing up
Gotland and Visby are a popular tourist destination in the summer. They also have a week called medieval week which is very popular, where people dress up in medieval clothes and do things that were done back then. I haven't checked if there is anything about it on TH-cam?
Lindybeige did a video on it!
FIRST!! visby the shit man. love the medival reactions
I grew up five minute's walk from a 13th century church, and if I went the opposite direction, 2-3,000-year old carvings in the rocks by early bronze age settlers. So, ah, yeah. There's a lot of fun history in Sweden. Heck, one of my ancestors lived in the forest near where I live now, in a cave under a rock where he was a blacksmith to people passing by. He didn't even have to do that. 😁
Also, if you want to visit old places, there's the tiny trade city of Eketorp, an actual Viking-era settlement on the island neighboring Gotland, Öland. Eketorp is basically constantly under excavation. There's also one other settlement that was found more recently, that had the first real evidence of trade routes to Rome before the Viking era.
How old a town is could be a tricky question. Many Swedish towns have been settlements and trading centers since the stone age, but of course they weren't towns then. In the middle ages and for some centuries on, most kinds of trade could only legally be done in cities, for tax reasons, and the king decided which places were allowed to call themselves cities. So most towns know the date and year the king granted them city privileges.
One of the reasons Visby has so many beautiful medieval buildings is that it used to be the richest town in Sweden, because of all the trade. One way to show off your riches in the middle ages was to fund a church, that is why Visby has a ridiculous amount of medieval churches, even though only one of them is still in use as a church.
How fun you visited Visby! If you’re up for a virtual walk there I have several on my channel, like this one on a cold winter night: th-cam.com/video/-W-1PyRMwBc/w-d-xo.html
Or on a calm evening in June: Sweden Walks: Visby, Gotland. Streets and people in medieval, world heritage town
th-cam.com/video/8Y3TMz5fQrc/w-d-xo.html
my home town:)
Visby is the oldest city in all of the northern countries, probably from around 700, maybe even more
Our accent comes from three different countries, Sweden(Ofcourse), Denmark and Germany.
But mostly from our own old language, Gutnish.
Oh shit I live there haha
always have to watch a video when my home town is in it :D sadly, it is awfully dull living here year around. not much going on here outside of tourist season 🥲
About the material: Gotland is the prime site for Swedish marble. But chalkstone is the primary rock.
Exploiting the small country's urge to hear about itself? Very opportunistic, WP!
Ribe in Denmark celebrated it's 1300th "birthday" in 2020. 1300th!!
My home town got Market Rights in 1171, meaning it was already was a fairly big town then, so we've got some old houses.
A friend of mine lives in a house build around year 1400. Mind you the enterior is as modern as any new build and has all the creature comforts
- except there's not a right angle in the house🤣
Ugh why did they make a commercial for this? There are already to many stokholmers (no offense) that come over and waste water.
There are foundations of large forts and large burial mounds since 1700 BC but no writings preserved from that time. When Christianity took hold of Sweden, large book fires were organized where writings about old times and old gods were burned.
I love to live in this beautiful island. And if you are about to visit Gotland you must check out Visby. But there are so so many other places to to visit on the island of Gotland. Specially on the summertime when the countryside are so beautiful. And don’t forget to visit the little island Fårö which is an incredible beautiful place to visit to.
Visby is considered Sweden's 6th oldest city.
I just traced my ancestry back to Visby, so I'm fascinated to read all the comments. What else should I watch?
The oldest and first city in Sweden, is Sigtuna from year 970.
Im from visby the Wall calls ring muren and visby are the only city in gotland
...and btw, you sound just like The Family Guy "Cleveland"
At 5:59 is where my best friend used to live. I go to Visby a couple of times every year - just love the place.
My home town, how cool of you to react to my very familiar locations. Best wishes from Sweden
Denmark and Sweden are known for being the two nations that have fought the most number of wars of any two nations.
In all of Sandinavia there is A LOT of buldings dating back to the 1000-1100-1200 centuries, often churches or carstels because they were build of stones - wich is more supstantionel - and expencive - than common peopel could afford; many of these buldings are still in use.
Greetings from Denmark. 🇩🇰
Gotland was not Swedish until 1645
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Welcome to my island one day sir! Kind regards Erik
Gotland is nice, still not destroyed by mass ....
I was there last autumn,, even though i'm familiar with the building archetype and resources used Visby is truly a magnificent place to have visited :) (i'm from sweden)
.. Visby, the town of roses like the Swedes like it to be called.. such a long history and beauty allowed.. such a great place to visit..
I study here, its great but kinda boring in winter
tänk att ryssland vill erövra den här platsen
This is a small part of the town but its the main interesting part. You should look at the rest, but avoid Gråbo bad place
I’ve cycled through Gråbö for 20 years and had no problems at all.
Born and raised in Visby :)
jag är ju fan från visby
My hometown
I dont know if youve done this before but if not, you should react to Swedish rap/drill. Theres a big rap scene with many artists that english people usually like. The biggest rappers are Einar(rip), Yasin, 23, Sickan, Dizzy, 2m, Thrife, and more but there are also other great not so famous rappers like G1ocatore, Boogie Dinero, Sticky and more. You should also react to Kid Nerds video "The deadly beef inside a small Swedish town" to get a better understanding. Some songs you should start off with are:
Sticky - Vänd igen
Einar - Sätter dom på plats
Juice, Einar - Härifrån
Dizzy - Bara om ni visste
Yasin - Chicago
23 - Scorpio
G1ocatore - Mannequins
Thrife - This is Sweden
Sickan - Intro
2m - Tour de France
Nummeruno - Lumpen
If you like it ill send more songs, there are many
Were I was born
I think you should react to this video: th-cam.com/video/D7uUtaaOuSQ/w-d-xo.html
It's from Finland, but could equally be from Norway or Sweden.
Look at two other old towns along the Swedish east coast, Kalmar old town whith the amazing Castle,and Karlskrona,i love these to towns.
I live here and if you ever want to visit i can provide housing and guiding:)
My daughter lived there for a year... wonderful city 🥰
2:33 is a spot called "Rackarbacken" (translated rascalslope, and yes thats the real name of the street) where we used to get drunk as teenagers
Visby. I consider it heaven on earth. My favorite town for sure.
Here's som information on the whole Gotland island including Visby.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gotland
Im from Gotland, great too see you covering it man!
You are welcome to visit Visby some day. 🙂
yeah ive lived in visby my whole life and its nice af, tho the only thing id like to point out is that the video is only showing the old town part of visby, but we have all the normal modern stuff too ofc, just in the city outside of the walls. :)
no u dont. u eat roots ,i;ve seen it on discivery
My town! 💕🥰💕
i live here and tbh its boring asf
Danish territory
Nato territory now!
Do try to keep up hunny!
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@@tobiaslundqvist.71 Haha partly true kid :-)
Nice traveling