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9 unusual facts about Visby


11081 Persäve

It is named after Per Arvid Säve, a 19th-century educator of Visby, Sweden.

Gotland School of Music Composition

The Gotland School of Music Composition (sv. Gotlands tonsättarskola) is a folk high school for musical composition based in Visby, Gotland.

MS Golden Princess

On 24 March 1970 a passenger fell ill on board and had to be carried to a hospital in Visby, Gotland by a helicopter.

MS Isabelle

In summer 1993 she made a handful of cruises from Helsinki to Visby.

Villa Villekulla

Until the 1970s the house stood in a garden south of Visby, but it was re-located to Kneippbyn and Kneippbyns Summerland about three kilometres away from where it stood during filming of Pippi Longstocking, where it remains standing to this day.

Visby

Hayao Miyazaki noted that Visby is the main visual inspiration for the town in Kiki's Delivery Service, with elements of other locations such as Stockholm also blended in.

In 1409 Grand Master Ulrich von Jungingen of the Teutonic Knights guaranteed peace with the Kalmar Union of Scandinavia by selling the island of Gotland to Queen Margaret of Denmark, Norway and Sweden.

Visby gave its name to the 1968 Visby Amendments, which were an amendment of the Hague Rules of shipping law, leading to the Hague-Visby Rules.

Visby-class corvette

Much of the design was based on the experiences learned from the experimental ship HSwMS Smyge.


Jane Gylling

Jane Hilda Charlotta Gylling (born April 6, 1902 in Visby, Gotland – died March 10, 1961 in Örgryte, Västra Götaland) was a Swedish freestyle swimmer.

Mathilda Enequist

Born in Visby, Sweden, the daughter of a vicar, Johan Enequist, she was educated in Stockholm, Leipzig, and then in Paris, where she was instructed by Masset and Levasseur before she was employed in the Comédie-Italienne under the stage name Biondini (The Blonde), but soon moved to London, where she was a concert singer and singing instructor.

Oeselians

The city remained occupied for some time, contributing to the decline as a center of commerce in the 13th century in favor of Uppsala, Visby, Kalmar and Stockholm.

Valdemar Atterdag holding Visby to ransom, 1361

Valdemar Atterdag holding Visby to ransom, 1361 is a historical painting (oil on canvas, signed in 1882) by the Swedish historical painter Carl Gustaf Hellqvist (1851 – 1890).


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