The Church Village of Gammelstad, Luleå is a World Heritage site in Sweden defined by the UNESCO in 1996 and definitely a recommended cultural sightseeing location.
It is on position 668 (822, 581, 198) in our monthly survey..
"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."
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