The UNESCO World Heritage monuments are well described in other parts of the World Wide Web. The purpose with these page is to give you who are interested in the Swedish monumnets some more information and photos. The Swedish monuments are well described at the site of Riksantikvarieämbetet. Please follow the links below to find photos from some of the Swedish heritages. The photos has a low resolution to speed up the loading but can be traded in better resolution for good pictures from other World Heritage monumnets. Please drop me an email.
"A former Viking site on the island of Gotland, Visby was the main centre of the Hanseatic League of the Baltic from the 12th to the 14th century. Its 13th-century ramparts and more than 200 warehouses and trading establishments from the same period make it the best preserved fortified commercial city in Northern Europe." (source: UNESCO)
"Gammelstad, at the head of the Gulf of Bothnia, is the best- preserved example of a unique kind of town found in northern Scandinavia -- the church town. Its 424 wooden houses crowded around the early 15th-century stone church were only used on Sundays and religious festivals to lodge worshippers who came in from the surrounding countryside and who could not return home in a single day because of the distance and difficult travelling conditions." (source: UNESCO)
"The Arctic Circle region of northern Sweden is the home of the Saami, as the Lapp people call themselves. It is the biggest and one of the last places with an ancestral way of life based on the seasonal movement of livestock. Every summer, the Saami lead their immense herds of reindeer towards the mountains through a natural landscape hitherto preserved, but now threatened by the advent of motor vehicles. Historic and on-going geological processes can be seen in the glacial moraines and changing water courses. The region has many extremely beautiful features, with deep valleys and powerful rivers." (source: UNESCO)
1998 The Naval Port of Karlskrona
"Karlskrona is an outstanding example of a European planned naval city of the late 17th century in which the original plan and many of the buildings have survived intact, along with installations that illustrate its subsequent development up to the present." (source: UNESCO)