A medieval festival in modern, tech-savvy Sweden? Photo: Rupali Mehra/The Local VIDEO: Around 40,000 people come to Visby, Gotland, every year to relive medieval times. The Local's contributor Rupali ...

The annual Medieval Week is underway in Visby on the Baltic island of Gotland. Gotland has many reminders from the Middle Ages, with nearly 100 Medieval Churches around the island, and more than a ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. On the huge Swedish island of Gotland, in the middle of the Baltic Sea, they have an annual medieval festival. It's not everyone's ...

Gotland's 2017 Games Director Per Wallstedt is promising a medieval celebration as the NatWest Island Games prepares to burst into life. Strangardet will host Saturday's opening ceremony with ...

The 2017 Island Games got under way in the Swedish island of Gotland with a colourful medieval-themed opening ceremony on Saturday. Over 2,000 sportsmen and women from around the world paraded ...

Medieval Gotland merchants developed and controlled the trade routes between Russia and Europe. In the 12th Century, with the arrival of German merchants, ...

German archaeologists discovered that the skulls of three medieval Viking women found on the Swedish island of Gotland in the Baltic Sea showed evidence of an unusual procedure to elongate their ...

An ax to the face was likely the final blow that killed a medieval combatant during the Battle of Gotland, a blood-soaked attack that unfolded in 1361 between Swedish farmers and the Danish army.