Gotland Travel Guide

The Visby Town Wall is the ring fortification around the old town — about 3.4 km long with 44 preserved towers, a superb specimen of medieval Nordic urban defence and the core reason Visby is a World Heritage Site. Walking the wall reveals the harbour, red-roofed town and church ruins laid out inside and beyond its line.

Visby is the capital of Gotland and was among the wealthiest trading towns of the Hanseatic League, inscribed as a World Heritage Site in 1995 with its intact medieval ring wall. Red-roofed stone houses, church ruins and the encircling wall form the best-preserved medieval townscape in the Nordic world; each Medieval Week the old town steps back in time.