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Vikingabåt i Birka

Birka and Hovgården

  • World heritages in Sweden
    • Laponia Area
    • Struve Geodetic Arc
    • Church Town of Gammelstad
    • High Coast
    • The Decorated Farmhouses of Hälsingland
    • Falun World Heritage
    • Engelsberg Ironworks
    • Birka and Hovgården
    • Drottningholm – Royal Domain
    • The Woodland Cemetery
    • Rock Carvings in Tanum
    • Hanseatic Town of Visby
    • Grimeton Radio Station
    • Agricultural Landscape of Southern Öland
    • Naval City of Karlskrona

Birka and Hovgården

Birka and Hovgården, situated on the islands of Björkö and Adelsö in Lake Mälaren, is one of the best examples of a Viking trading site.

Birka and Hovgården were inscribed on the World Heritage List in 1993.

The Justification of the World Heritage Committee

The Birka-Hovgården area is a well preserved example of the Vikings’ trading networks during the two centuries when they expanded economically and politically in Europe. Birka is one of the most complete and untouched Viking Age trading sites from the years 700-900.

Links

Birka and Hovgården – UNESCO

 

A traders village – more than 1 000 years ago.
Photo: Bengt A. Lundberg, National Heritage Board, 2004

Viking graves from Birka.
Photo: Bengt A. Lundberg, National Heritage Board, 1999

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