Explore the historic highlights of Outer Hebrides
Outer Hebrides, United Kingdom
3000-2500 BC
Outer Hebrides, United Kingdom
3000-2500 BC
Outer Hebrides, United Kingdom
8th century AD
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0-100 AD
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c. 1520
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3000-2500 BC
Outer Hebrides, United Kingdom
1847-1857
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15th century
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3000-1500 BC
Outer Hebrides, United Kingdom
1787
Outer Hebrides, United Kingdom
3000-2500 BC
Outer Hebrides, United Kingdom
8th century
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3000-2000 BC
Outer Hebrides, United Kingdom
1865
Outer Hebrides, United Kingdom
3000-2500 BC
Outer Hebrides, United Kingdom
1344-1363
Outer Hebrides, United Kingdom
13th century
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3000 BC
Outer Hebrides, United Kingdom
100BC - 100AD
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2000 BC
Outer Hebrides, United Kingdom
3000 BC
Outer Hebrides, United Kingdom
300-200 BC
Outer Hebrides, United Kingdom
13th century
Outer Hebrides, United Kingdom
100 BC - 100 AD
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.