Explore the historic highlights of Syracuse
Syracuse, Italy
7th century AD
Syracuse, Italy
5th century BC
Syracuse, Italy
12th century
Syracuse, Italy
5th century BC
Syracuse, Italy
1397
Syracuse, Italy
6th century BCE
Syracuse, Italy
3rd century BCE
Syracuse, Italy
1232-1240
Syracuse, Italy
1st century AD
Syracuse, Italy
1886
Syracuse, Italy
c. 1100
Syracuse, Italy
1st century AD
Syracuse, Italy
1st century AD
Syracuse, Italy
402-397 BCE
Syracuse, Italy
212 BCE
Syracuse, Italy
3rd century AD
Syracuse, Italy
1943
Syracuse, Italy
6th century BCE
Visby Cathedral (also known as St. Mary’s Church) is the only survived medieval church in Visby. It was originally built for German merchants and inaugurated in 1225. Around the year 1350 the church was enlarged and converted into a basilica. The two-storey magazine was also added then above the nave as a warehouse for merchants.
Following the Reformation, the church was transformed into a parish church for the town of Visby. All other churches were abandoned. Shortly after the Reformation, in 1572, Gotland was made into its own Diocese, and the church designated its cathedral.
There is not much left of the original interior. The font is made of local red marble in the 13th century. The pulpit was made in Lübeck in 1684. There are 400 graves under the church floor.