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Gammelstad Church Town

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Rank: 1001 UNESCO
Wonder Type: Cultural
Country: Sweden
Best of: Church, Chrisian
Description:
Gammelstad, at the head of the Gulf of Bothnia, is the best-preserved example of a 'church village', a unique kind of village formerly found throughout northern Scandinavia. The 424 wooden houses, huddled round the early 15th-century stone church, were used only on Sundays and at religious festivals to house worshippers from the surrounding countryside who could not return home the same day because of the distance and difficult travelling conditions. [More Details]
This article uses material from UNESCO World Heritage List article "Gammelstad Church Town", which is released under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share-Alike 3.0 IGO License.